Can't Wait Wednesday
Can't-Wait Wednesday is hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings and gives us a chance to highlight books we are patiently waiting to fill up our TBRs with.
THIS IS A LOVE STORY BY JESSICA SOFFER
I usually am not interested in any celebrity book club, the books they choose are just not entertaining to me. So I was surprised that I wanted to read This is a Love Story by Jessica Soffer. I guess there is a first for everything right?
I am not sure why I picked this book, maybe I need a good emotional read that will make me cry, it's been a while. But I saw this on someone else's blog, read the summary, and was instantly drawn to it.
I am in a birthday book club with 11 other girls, where we shower the birthday month reader with books from their Amazon wishlist, just so happens this month is mine, and I had put this on my wishlist, so it is already in my hands! Now...just to find the time to start reading it!
SUMMARY:
For fifty years, Abe and Jane have been coming to Central Park, as starry-eyed young lovers, as frustrated and exhausted parents, as artists watching their careers take flight. They came alone when they needed to get away from each other, and together when they had something important to discuss. The Park has been their witness for half a century of love. Until now.
Jane is dying, and Abe is recounting their life together as a way of keeping them going: the parts they knew—their courtship and early marriage, their blossoming creative lives—and the parts they didn’t always want to know—the determined young student of Abe’s looking for a love story of her own, and their son, Max, who believes his mother chose art over parenthood, and who has avoided love and intimacy at all costs. Told in various points of view, even in conversation with Central Park, these voices weave in and out to paint a portrait as complicated and essential as love itself.
Jane is dying, and Abe is recounting their life together as a way of keeping them going: the parts they knew—their courtship and early marriage, their blossoming creative lives—and the parts they didn’t always want to know—the determined young student of Abe’s looking for a love story of her own, and their son, Max, who believes his mother chose art over parenthood, and who has avoided love and intimacy at all costs. Told in various points of view, even in conversation with Central Park, these voices weave in and out to paint a portrait as complicated and essential as love itself.
This is a Love Story came out on February 4th. Have you read it or do you have it on your wishlist?
Oh wow... this certainly sounds like an emotional read! I hope you find it rewarding as such books often are.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds good. Very emotional.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a hard-hitter. I might have to grab it if I see it at my library.
ReplyDeleteThis really does sound like it will be an emotional read. I just finished an emotional book that had me in tears. I didn't realize how much I needed that until after. The birthday book club sounds like such a fun experience! I hope you like This Is a Love Story when you read it!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds very emotional but so good! I hope you enjoy it! :)
ReplyDeleteYeah, there is always a first. And oh, that sounds pretty emotional! Thanks for stopping by! Happy reading!
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