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Anne Giardini is an author, lawyer, and the eldest daughter of late Canadian novelist Carol Shields.

Giardini is licensed to practice law in both Ontario and British Columbia. As a journalist, Giardini has contributed to the National Post as a columnist. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia with her husband of more than 25 years and their three children. She has written two novels, The Sad Truth about Happiness (2005) and Advice for Italian Boys (2009), both published with HarperCollins. With Random House Canada, Giardini will be releasing (as editor) Startle and Illuminate: Carol Shields on Writing in 2016.

She is currently serving as the 11th Chancellor of Simon Fraser University.

Since 2008, Giardini has been president of Weyerhaeuser ...more

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Average rating: 3.04 · 1,136 ratings · 220 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Sad Truth About Happiness 2.92 avg rating — 517 ratings — published 2005 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Worst Noel: Hellish Holiday Tales by Cynthia Kaplan, John Marchese, Amy Krouse Rosenthal 2.72 avg rating — 360 ratings — published 2005 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Startle and Illuminate: Carol Shields on Writing by Carol Shields, Anne Giardini (editor), Nicholas Giardini (editor) 4.12 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Advice For Italian Boys 3.17 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sad Truth About Happiness : A Novel 2.70 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“My tears brought no sense of release or relief. Their flight felt like the lightest, coldest touch of a departing lover.”
― Anne Giardini, The Sad Truth About Happiness

tags: lover, release, relief, sad, tears

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“Life is perphas after all simply this thing and then the next. We are all of us improvising. We find a careful balance only to discover that gravity or stasis or love or dismay or illness or some other force suddenly tows us in an unexpected direction. We wake up to find that we have changed abruptly in a way that is perculiar and inexplicable. We are constanly adjusting, making it up, feeling our way forward, figuring out how to be and where to go next. We work it out, how to be happy, but sooner or later comes a change-sometimes something small, sometimes everything at once- and we have to start over again, feeling our way back to a provisional state of contentment.”
― Anne Giardini, The Sad Truth About Happiness

tags: change-contentment, life, start-over

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“I used to float along in all of this, like a leaf on a coursing stream, but i am heavier now, less easily moved, more resolute and steadfast. I am no longer in pursuit of happiness. As I stand here at my front door, key in hand, I think it is just possible that happiness, at least for now, today, this hour, may be in pursuit of me.”
― Anne Giardini, The Sad Truth About Happiness

tags: happiness, life, pursuit

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