10 Reasons You Are Excited About Getting to Happy

Terry McMillan is the author behind hit books Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Grove Back. In 1992, waiting to Exhale landed on The New York Times bestseller where it remained for several months. The success of these books were matched by the success they experienced at the box office when the pair were transformed into feature length films. Born October 18, 1951 in Port Huron, Michigan, McMillan worked in a library at the age of 16-years old. Her love of books has remained with her decades later. McMillan thought that she found love again at 40 something and married Jonathan Plummer in 1998. Five years later the couple amid controversy filed for divorce. She published The Interruption of Everything in the same year on July 19, 2005. Her last book was met with a degree of success and her most recent book is entitled Getting to Happy.

In Getting to Happy, the characters fast-forwards 15 years from where they left off in Waiting to Exhale. Discover the lives of the four friends including Bernadine, Savannah, Gloria and Robin. Bernadine apparently did learn to trust again, Gloria may or may not be still with her handsome neighbor and Savannah is probably still struggling with her passion for a married man. Robin's life fifteen years later explores the issues we or those closest to us face at some stage of our lives or another. Waiting to Exhale the film starred Angela Bassett, Whitney Houston, Loretta Devine, Lela Rochon and was directed by Forest Whitaker. Now there are 10 reasons why you can be excited about the Getting to Happy book.

1. Getting to Happy is the sequel Waiting to Exhale
2. The new book is written by best selling author Terry McMillan
3. Reading the book before it becomes a book office movie
4. Get to know the book's characters modern day dilemmas, loves and triumphs
5. Find out what happened to the Waiting to Exhale four friends 15-years later
6. Discover new characters and anticipate who will portray the new characters in the film version.
7. Identify with the old and new characters as well as their daily lives a decade on
8. Read a new potential best selling book of the year
9. Support Terry McMillan post her nasty public divorce from Jonathan Plummer who she married in 1998
10. Experience a great story about four friend to the end and a good read for summer 2010

Will the four stars of Waiting to Exhale reprise their roles in a film version of Getting to Happy?

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