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Chargement... Save What's Left: A Novelpar Elizabeth Castellano
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. The Short of It: Chaotic in an oddly entertaining way. The Rest of It: “An outrageously funny debut novel about a woman who moves to a small beach town looking for peace, only to find herself in an all-out war with her neighbors..” – Bookshop.org I actually thought this book was hilarious. I picked it up when I wasn’t feeling too great and was instantly perked up. Unfortunately when I finished it I was really out of it so couldn’t formulate my thoughts. This is my best attempt now. Kathleen Deane finds herself on a little discovery adventure when her husband of 30 years decided he no longer wants to be married. This is a shock. I mean, 30 years is a long time. As she tries to make sense of it, she begins to think about her next steps and that lands her in a small beach town. The idea of growing old in a quaint little beach town has always appealed to her so she sets it all in motion to make it a reality. What she doesn’t count on is the town being completely off kilter. Construction, building violations and city officials who do not return her calls. It’s comical at best. The interactions with neighbors and honestly folks just walking by really make you rethink idyllic beach towns. Do they exist? This story is very episodic. This happens and then that happens. Every time I picked it up it put a smile on my face . If you need something a little different to add to your reading list, add Save What’s Left. For more reviews, visit my blog: Book Chatter. Reading the first chapter, I was delighted with this book because of its tone and humor. As it went on, however, I got bored with the constant letters to "Supervisor White" and the details of zoning and permits and all kinds of other dilemmas that held no interest for me. Still, the characters were well done and I did finish it. This cautionary tale is a lesson for all: life’s a beach. Kathleen’s life is turned upside down when her husband decides he wants a divorce and to travel, without Kathleen, of course. So Kathleen sells her home, and buys a beach house in a community where an old friend of hers loves living. Living on the beach is going to be wonderful! Well, it’s not quite what she expected, especially when a monstrosity of a new house is built right next door, apparently ignoring all community zoning laws. She starts a campaign to stop the building, with little success. And even stranger things are in store for her. Yes, there is humor in the book, but after a while I found the continuing saga of Kathleen against city hall a bit too much of the same thing, and - dare I say - boring. And even though I tired of Kathleen’s tirade, I very much liked the way the author portrayed Kathleen’s husband and her cantankerous neighbor, both of whom add much to the story. It’s a read about a beach that’s not a beach read, and that makes it unique among the sappy romance ones. But perhaps there is a smidge of romance left for Kathleen to find after all. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML:ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S BEST BOOKS OF SUMMER ? An outrageously funny debut novel about a woman who moves to a small beach town looking for peace, only to find herself in an all-out war with her neighbors. ??Irreverent and unexpectedly tender, this story takes neighborhood feuding to new heights and finds beauty and reinvention in unlikely places." ??Oprah Daily "Brings a tongue-in-cheek tone to the beach read genre."??TIME When Kathleen Deane??s husband, Tom, tells her he's no longer happy with his life and their marriage, Kathleen is confused. They live in Kansas. They??ve been married thirty years. Who said anything about being happy? But with Tom off finding himself, Kathleen starts to think about what she wants. And her thoughts lead her to a small beach community on the east coast, a town called Whitbey that has always looked lovely in the Christmas letters her childhood friend Josie sends every year. It turns out, though, that life in Whitbey is nothing like Josie??s letters. Kathleen??s new neighbor, Rosemary, is cantankerous, and the town??s supervisor won't return Kathleen??s emails, but worst of all is the Sugar Cube, the monstrosity masquerading as a holiday home that Kathleen??s absentee neighbors are building next door to her quaint (read: tiny) cottage. As Kathleen gets more and more involved in the fight against the Sugar Cube and town politics overall, she realizes that Whitbey may not be a fairytale, but it just might be exactly what she needed. Save What??s Left can best be described as the ??un-beach read.? It pulls back the curtain on life in a beach town, revealing the true cost of a pretty view. Told from the candid and irreverent perspective of a newcomer turned local, this is a story of f Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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It's about a retired busybody and the wacky antics in her shore town. You'll know in about three pages if you like the humor or not and if you don't just move on, if you do, you'll have an enjoyable couple of hours on your hands.
Personally, I appreciated how our main character got railroaded into being a fundraising chair person for a club she barely belonged to. LOL ( )