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In their most popular book, bestselling authors Eric and Leslie Ludy challenge singles to take a fresh approach to relationships in a culture where love has been replaced by cheap sensual passion. When God Writes Your Love Story shows that God's way to true love brings fulfillment and romance in its purest, richest, and most satisfying form. This new edition includes an extra chapter from Leslie Ludy about the surprises of life after marriage!
âI had dreamed of a perfect love story for my entire life. But somewhere in the midst of the endless cycle of temporary romances, my dreams had shattered.â How can I find a love worth waiting for?
Lay the foundation nowâwhether you’ve met your future spouse or notâfor a lifelong romance. Bestselling authors Eric and Leslie Ludy invite you to discover how beautiful your love story can be when the Author of romance scripts every detail.
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Eric and Leslie Ludy want to offer an exciting vision of hope, proving that the Author of romance is alive and well and that true and lasting love can become a reality. Using the âfour secrets to an amazing love story,â Eric and Leslie present a Christ-centered approach to building a relationship that will stand the test of time.
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Fantastic!!.......2007-10-05
This book is fantastic! It is incredible insight into what happens when you allow God to take control of your love life. I found the principles true/valid for all areas of my life not just my love life. I highly recommend this book.
Must Read.......2007-10-02
I've heard of this book through the grapevine and it got great reviews, especially from the church youth group ministries. Once I began reading it, I could not put it down. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is dating seriously, looking at dating, or even trying to figure out the path to take for a great future.
A Very Good Book.......2007-09-28
I teach an Ezra class at my church for teenagers. I ordered this book for them and we are discussing it and reading it and they are really enjoying it. This book is about real people with real experiences like them. They can relate to it. The Lord is teaching them through this book. Thank you for selling it and I thank the authors for writing it.
Wonderful!.......2007-05-12
This book I would recommend for young teens as well as adults. Anyone who has looked for love, but in all the wrong places, or anyone who is uncertain that they will ever find love at all; this book will comfort and guide you. Using scriptural backing, this books tells the reader how they must first love their heavenly King before they can every hope to find their earthly handsome prince.
This book was such a blessing to me. A must read for all young Christian adults!
I tried to make the most of it.......2007-04-29
I think the book is ok in that it offered new insight into my relationship with God that I was unaware of, and for that, I appreciate the book. However, as "the ultimate approach to guy/girl relationships," I don't think it was quite that. I think that they should have elaborated more on what is wrong with most current guy/girl relationships and talked about how we should approach these differently, both in the aspects of friendship and dating. The prime example would have been to use their own relationship as an example, which they did not. The reader just discovers one day (towards the end of the book) that they were friends who were not even considering marriage and the next thing you know, they're married. Maybe they elaborate more in their other books, but I am not buying those when stuff like that should have been explained in a book that is supposed to tell you the "ultimate approach to guy/girl relationships!" I think that their book titles should reveal that this is one couple's limited perspective because even the references of other people's experiences as examples do not tell you much.
Also, they seem somewhat limited in their experience and their thinking to be telling others how to correctly approach these relationships. In the aspect of loving yourself and growing closer to God, the book is good, but I don't really think it helps too much with relationships.
Another thing is the writing style was kind of a turn off to me, and I found it to be annoying. But I think that perhaps it may appeal to some people. It seems somewhat simple and patronizing, which immediately made me think this book was for high schoolers, but even when I was at that age, I still would have regarded it as too simple. Plus their humor did not appeal to me so they should try to keep that to a minimum in their future books. Honestly, they sounded as if they were young adolescents when they wrote this, and there is a difference between trying to appeal to a certain age group and sounding like you are from that age group.
Lastly, they should not paraphrase what is in the Bible. I actually did look up something they paraphrased and had a completely different understanding of it so I think they should write exactly what is in the Bible and then offer their perspective. Overall, I tried to get as much out of it as I could, but I would not want to buy another book written by them.
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Readers know what they are going to get when they pick up an unfamiliar Alice Munro collection, and yet almost every page carries a bounty of unexpected action, feeling, language, and detail. Her stories are always unique, blazing an invigorating originality out of her seemingly commonplace subjects. Each collection develops her oeuvre in increments, subtly expanding her range.
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is, of course, no exception. It is a fairly conservative collection of nine stories, none of which move far beyond Munro's favored settings: the tiny towns and burgeoning cities of southern Ontario and British Columbia. There are glimpses of youth here--in the title story, an epistolary prank by two teenage girls leads to a one-sided cross country elopement and, seemingly, a happy marriage, and in "Nettles," disrupted childhood affection fleetingly returns through a chance meeting--but most of these pieces are stories of aging women and men, confronting the twin travails of death and late love. As is always the case with Munro, their plots are too elegantly elaborate to summarize, and their unsentimental power is a given; baroque praise would be futile. Read these stories--it is the only way to really understand the miracles that Munro so regularly performs. --Jack Illingworth
Book Description
A superb new collection from one of our best and best-loved writers. Nine stories draw us immediately into that special place known as Alice Munro territory–a place where an unexpected twist of events or a suddenly recaptured memory can illumine the arc of an entire life.
The fate of a strong-minded housekeeper with a “frizz of reddish hair,” just entering the dangerous country of old-maidhood, is unintentionally (and deliciously) reversed by a teenaged girl’s practical joke. A college student visiting her aunt for the first time and recognizing the family furniture stumbles on a long-hidden secret and its meaning in her own life. An inveterate philanderer finds the tables turned when he puts his wife into an old-age home. A young cancer patient stunned by good news discovers a perfect bridge to her suddenly regained future. A woman recollecting an afternoon’s wild lovemaking with a stranger realizes how the memory of that encounter has both changed for her and sustained her through a lifetime.
Men and women are subtly revealed. Personal histories, both complex and simple, unfold in rich detail of circumstance and feeling. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage provides the deep pleasures and rewards that Alice Munro’s large and ever- growing audience has come to expect.
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Another Great Collection from Munro.......2007-06-20
The collection takes its title from the opening story, a fifteen thousand-word piece recounting a strange, small-town romance. "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage" is the name of a game played by the teenaged protagonist, Edith (though perhaps other characters could be identified as protagonists, something that can be said for many of Munro's stories) and her friend, Sabetha.
The game goes like this: one of the girls writes down a boy's name then strikes out all the letters in the name that match the letters in her name. The remaining letters are counted. That number is used to tick off fingers, saying, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, until, as Munro writes, "you got the verdict on what could happen between you and that boy." It is the same sort of he loves me, he loves me not game played with daisies or black-eyed Susans, just a bit more complicated, which is how many of Munro's stories function--she takes a seemingly familiar story and draws it out to an entirely unique place.
In the case of the title story, one of the characters, Sabetha, who lives with her widowed grandfather, begins fabricating love letters with her friend Edith. The love letters are between Sabetha's estranged father who is living in a down and out logging town, and the woman who was hired by Sabetha's widowed grandfather to cook and clean and care for Sabetha. Typically in this sort of scheme, the forgery is discovered or the lie somehow becomes a thing that entangles characters. But in this story, the fabricators are never discovered. The fact of the lie is incidental. The letters still provoke change and lead to the sort of uncommon love that is at the core of all the stories in this collection.
It would be easy to dwell on this single story, it reads more like a novel or novella than a short story. We do not even meet Sabetha and Edith or discover their forgeries until we have read well over seven thousand words. Instead we discover the world of this small, frontier town and Johanna, the housekeeper. We are introduced to characters that are drawn fully in a handful of pages and then disappear. We find ourselves thoroughly involved in the place and lives of these characters before the plot of the story is fully revealed.
That said, the stories never move far from the center that is precisely laid out in the opening pages. It is an interesting thing that Munro does in her stories. Unlike John Cheever or Raymond Carver who enter into a story quickly and then work to get out, who offer a very intricate glimpse into the lives their characters, Munro tends to dwell, sometimes offering through one long gaze through a small window a representative view of the entire life of her character.
There are no heroes in "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage." Nor is there evil. Certain characters will profess a belief in God, but that sort of Christian judgment is absent from even the characters themselves. They lead common lives. If they are working class, then they are shop owners and farmers and loggers, or they are drunkards and common failures. If they are middle or upper class, they are doctors and lawyers with largely uneventful lives. But uneventful or ordinary does not mean uninteresting. Each character carries within them some event or feeling that bears down upon their life--a daughter who has run away, an unwed pregnancy ended in secret adoption, a marriage absent of love, a failed marriage, adultery, death of a spouse--and these things do not force the characters into extraordinary action, but rather ordinary action.
The loveless marriage persists, the adulterer returns to her husband, the wounds from the failed marriage heal and scar and, "after their short, happy marriage they were sent to separate cemeteries to lie beside their first, more troublesome partners." There are no spectacular events in this collection, only common events made interesting by Munro's extraordinary talent.
I find something meaningful in the stories of people bound by life, something somehow more meaningful than our contemporary (modern) boundlessness. And it is this meaning that Munro pulls out in the lives of her characters. This is not a collection for readers of self-help or adventure, but rather this is a collection for people interested in understanding a less modern portrayal of living, the sort of living that is seldom seen on any sort of screen, lives free of sentimentality, stories void of absolutes--lives in the end as common as our own.
Obligatory - but Good - Book Club Read.......2007-03-31
I never would have bought this book if not for my book club. But I am glad I did. Though I am not a big fan of short stories, and some were better than others, I enjoyed this book. Munro has a lovely way of writing, with eloquent and thought-provoking descriptors. Sometimes the endings came out of nowhere (and not in a good way) but it was overall a good read.
More Than Short.......2006-12-22
In this collection of short stories Alice Munro offers perfect slices of Canadian life, and while some may find the characters and their situations depressing, I find Munro's world inspirational in its universality. She shows that people are people, and that is what is on display in these works.
The stories explore the "rustic," without being "twangy," and Munro has captured the essence of the contemporary common Canadian woman.
Highly recommended...
Yes, All of Those Things.......2006-10-18
A new word is needed for what Alice Munro writes in lieu of novels. Certainly each story in her several collections should stand alone (and some stand straighter than others), but each ensemble of stories resonating with each other amounts to more than the sum of the parts. Think of a big sprawling novel with artfully interwoven subplots; then take each subplot and distill it into a short/long story. Let the reader remember each story as she/he reads the others. In fact, in Munro's case, let the reader remember very similar stories written a few years or decades ago by a younger (and thus different) Munro. Watch the understanding grow. Mind you, understanding of folly is a form of wisdom, too. Alice Munro has "understood" her material, primarily her own locality in place and time, better than almost any writer of her lifetime.
This is not my favorite of the 10 storybooks Munro has published, but it's very very good, especially "The Bear Came Over the Mountain". If Munro is honored with the Nobel Prize (there have been hints), I'll applaud the decision.
Titles are the hardest part..........2006-09-06
Alice Munro is a great writer, and wonderfully evocative of my Canada experience. She's especially great as a short story writer - a very difficult discipline. However, in this one the stories were a bit less diverse in perspective than others of Alice Munro's that I've read. Too many middle-aged extramarital affairs. (Am I the only faithful one?) A little too John Updike for my taste.
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When Elizabeth Bennet first met Mr. Darcy, she found him proud, distant, and rude—despite the other ladies' admiration of his estate in Derbyshire and ten thousand pounds a year. But what was Mr. Darcy thinking?
Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice has long stood among the most beloved novels of all time. The story of Elizabeth Bennet's blossoming romance with "haughty, reserved, and fastidious" Fitzwilliam Darcy has enchanted readers for nearly two centuries. Yet, Mr. Darcy has always remained an intriguing enigma—his thoughts, feelings, and motivations hidden behind a cold, impenetrable exterior . . . until now.
With the utmost respect for Austen's original masterwork, author Janet Aylmer loving retells Pride and Prejudice from a bold new perspective: seeing events as they transpire through the eyes of Darcy himself. One of world's great love stories takes on breathtaking new life, and one of fiction's greatest romantic heroes becomes even more sympathetic, compelling, attractive, and accessible, all through the imagination and artistry of a truly gifted storyteller.
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highly enjoyable.......2007-10-13
I though this book was really good. I liked the fact that the P&P was told from Darcy's point of view. The original dialogue provided familiarity while adding a bit of difference due to Darcy's thoughts being added. My only complaint: too short! :D
An Excellent Read.......2007-10-10
Almost 200 years ago Jane Austen wrote and publilshed Pride & Prejudice, a novel that would stand the test of time, winning the hearts of new fans with each passing generation. For even though the novel was written so long ago its themes and characters have withstood the test of time. I first fell in love with Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy several years ago by chance. Stumbling across the book one day in the bookstore not realizing that it would soon become a most beloved friend. It didn't take long to read Austen's novel and it was a book that I have revisited often over the years. Throughout all my readings I have always wondered about Mr. Darcy. What was he thinking? As well as what happened after the story ended. (Which was much to soon in my humble opinion!).
Despite my wanting to know what happened afterwards I have steered away for all the various "sequels" to the story that people have written over the years. I read some of the reviews and they were always mixed from those that loved them and those that thought they were horrible additions to a beloved story. Therefore I stayed away from them all so that P&P wouldn't be tarnished for me in any way.
That is until this past weekend when a friend of mine recommended a new novel, Darcy's Story by Janet Alymer. This wasn't a sequel but a companion novel told from the point of view of the enigmatic Mr. Darcy. Others have tried to recommend books to me based on P&P but I never really paid them much attention since there was always a little criticism mixed in with the praise. This friend was different. She admitted that while, at the time, she hadn't read much that she thoroughly enjoyed all that she had. That made me curious and so I bought the book soon afterwards.
It was instant love. Alymer uses a lot of the dialogue that Austen herself wrote which adds so much realism to the story for which there has been much criticism. In my opinion, the transcribed dialogue only helps in creating a seamless transition between the original story and the new additions. I don't think that I would have enjoyed this book half as much if she hadn't used the original text. After all, if it ain't broke, why fix it?
Alymer captures the essence of Mr. Darcy and all the other characters in the story. One can tell that Alymer is a true fan and took time and care with how the events were laid out. I loved all the added scenes that were only alluded to in Austen's story. They played out as I had pictured them. There has also been criticism about the length of time that Alymer spent on the various scenes between Darcy & Mr. Wickham. However, Austen herself never spent much time on them so why should Alymer do any different. Mr Wickham was only a minor character, the story revolved around Elizabeth and Mr Darcy to dwell on events not involving the two of them only takes away from their story. Reading Darcy's Story brought me back to the time when I first read Pride & Prejudice I loved every moment of it and as with P&P hated when it was over. So many people have tried over the years to emulate Austen's style with mixed results based on all the reviews that I have read. However I find that Alymer has succeeded in channeling Austen and created a novel that will stand the test of time as a worthy companion novel to the original. I think that Jane Austen would be very proud of what Janet Alymer has done with her characters. In conclusion, I am very thankful to my friend Chris, because without her heartfelt recommendation I never would have picked up this book.
Shows a much needed side of our hero.......2007-09-21
This book shows the human side of Mr. Darcy, you can't keep up the front all the time, and this book shows us what he was truelly like away from the public eye, with his sister and friends.
I think it was very true to the original, but read and judge for yourself.
All I can say is with all the versions out there, I recommend you give this one a try. But then again I am always partial to my Mr. Darcy
Why?.......2007-09-13
This book is a retelling of one of the greatest books of the English Language, Pride and Prejudice, from the perspective of one of the sexiest men the grace the pages of literature, Mr. Darcy. The question that arises with a book such as this is the inevitable: why? I do not know the reason. The best part of this book is that is lacks the presumption to ruin the canon. The worst part is it lacks the courage to ruin the canon. In other words, the book--though not an assault on the senses of a Janeite--provides nothing for the Janeite. There is nothing here of significance that is not in Pride and Prejudice. Of course, it cannot be expected that anyone would be able to have the wit and irony of Jane's magnificent prose, but it is more than that. While the book tries, by it's very nature it lacks the power of the enigma that is Darcy's character. This is not a bad book; but it is a pale shadow compared to the delight and magnificence that is Pride and Prejudice. I'd rather just reread that for the tenth time. Grade: C+
I Already Read Pride & Prejudice, Thank You.......2007-08-14
Can this woman be sued for plagarism? I felt like I was reading the same story except written by someone standing in the other corner of the room. There is no creativity in developing Darcy further that we already understand him. I could not even finish the book I was so bored.
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Inspiring stories of couples who discovered love in God's timing through the lost art of courtship.
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Companion book to "passion and Purity"........2007-09-05
If you have read or are planning on reading "Passion and Purity" by Elizabeth Elliot, you NEED to purchse this book as well and read it with it. If you think that Elizabeth Elliot's standards are archaic and outdated (As she herself seems to imply people think they are), then read this book. "Quest for Love" will give clear examples of what it means to surrendur your love life to Christ. It is not about a strict set of "rules" and guidelines, but rather it is about a fluid relationship with Jesus Christ based upon the Bible.
One of my favorite stories was about the man who went to China as a missionary, but before he did he kept pursuing different women that he "felt" were the perfect match for him. It was wasn't until he was surrenduring his life to God and living in obedience by being a missionary to China, did he meet the woman who would become his wife. The other tale in here that I enjoyed was about God testing one man's patience and concept of God's timing. He was "ready" to get married when he was 22, but God kept saying no. He would date and try to find someone, but it didn't work. Finally he began handing it over to the Lord, and ten years later he met the woman who would be his wife, who was ten years younger than him!!! When he thought he was ready to get married, well, his wife wasn't!
I loved this book because through the stories and Elliot's narration, she teaches that singleness is a gift from God. We should not view it as a curse whether we are called to singleness for a life-time or for a season, but rather as an opportunity to grow in the Lord and into our God-given gifts. So, that we will not live to get married, but live in Christ. It is a beautiful thing to see a young or old man or woman surrenduring their life to Christ. Do not begrudge your state if you are single, marriage isn't a magic happiness pill, but harder work than you will ever bargain for. Enjoy your singleness and solitude while you have it. That is what this book is about, enjoying Christ in singleness so that if we marry, we can enjoy him in that too.
God Bless & *ENJOY* ~Amy
A Textbook This is Not.......2002-09-18
If you're looking for a book about Elisabeth Elliot's personal quest for love, then this text is not what you are looking for. Quest for love is a compilation of stories and excerpts about those who are now in the Faith who have searched for love at some point in the breadth of their lives. Not all the stories end happily in a romantic sense, and not all of them are model relationships. They are all real however, and Elliot leaves us with a bit of observation and application at the end of every chapter.
If you've read my other review under the book Passion and Purity, then you know that I really do enjoy reading about other peoples' lives. I sincerely want to stress the fact that the examples given to us in this book are not all great examples of what a godly relationship ought to be. In my opinion, Elisabeth Elliot has done a great job in giving us glimpses in not-so-exemplary relationships so that we might learn from other peoples mistakes. What you see here is a lot of life testimony regarding the pain and personal anguish that results in a broken world through the means of human relationships.
Elisabeth Elliot puts forth challenging questions and the occasional quotation of scripture. She offers insightful observations of what may or may not have been done correctly in a relationship. She also offers insight into situations in life that may not result in relationships at all. It's a pretty well rounded book, and it doesn't glamourize Christian relationships, nor does it assume that all Christian relationships are okay. You see some very destructive and painful occurences in here, and it is absolutely worth the read.
I guess the only reason that I gave the book four stars is because I wish that there were more letters from those who God chose to remain single. Love doesn't always have to be relegated to human relationships as the triune God is a very lovable and relational person. I'd give this book a 4.5 if I could, but we live in a broken world, so nothing is ever perfect;-).
wonderful guidance!!!.......2002-02-06
This book is great for helping you find real stories of encouragement with Letting God be your Guide. This will help you see that you should let your relationships into Gods hands and let him be the only one to guide you into the RIGHT relationship for you.
Inspiring follow-up to Passion and Purity.......2001-12-29
After reading "Passion and Purity" I couldn't wait to read her follow-up "Quest for Love." It was better than I expected. Her stories are touching and real. He advice is honest and straight forward. She approaches everything from a Biblical persepective, presenting undeniable truths. If you haven't read "Passion and Purity," I recommend that one first. "Quest for Love" is a fantastic book that you won't want to put down!
Another Elliot Winner.......2001-03-02
If you liked Elisabeth Elliot's "Passion and Purity," the earlier book on singleness, you'll like "Quest for Love." Passion and Purity is about Elisabeth Elliot's incredible romance with a man she loved for five years before he asked her to marry him.
"Quest for Love" is based on the same principles, but tells the success stories of other happy couples.
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Fictions of Modesty: Women and Courtship in the English Novel
Ruth Bernard Yeazell
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From the late seventeenth century to the beginning of the twentieth, no figure was more central to debates in England about the relations between the sexes than that of the modest woman. Drawing on a wide range of narratives from the period, Ruth Bernard Yeazell analyzes the multiple and conflicting wishes that were covered by talk of "modesty" and explores some of the most striking uses of a modest heroine.
Combining evidence from conduct books and ladies' magazines with the arguments of influential theorists like Hume, Rousseau, and Wollstonecraft, this book begins by asking why writers were devoted to the anxious remaking of women's "nature" and to codifying rules for their porper behavior. Fictions of Modesty shows how the culture at once tried to regulate young women's desires and effectively opened up new possibilities of subjectivity and individual choice.
Yeazell goes on to demonstrate that modest delaying actions inform a central tradition of English narrative. On the Continent, the English believed, the jeune fille went from the artificial innocence of the convent to an arranged marriage and adultery; the natural modesty of the Englishwoman, however, enabled her to choose her own mate and to marry both prudently and with affection. Rather than taking its narrative impetus from adultery, then, English fiction concentrated on courtship and the consciousness of the young woman choosing. After paired studies of Richardson's Pamela and Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (even Fanny Hill, Yeazell argues, is a modest English heroine at heart), Yeazell investigates what women novelists made of the virtues of modesty in works by Burney, Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and Gaskell.
A speculative postscript briefly addresses the discourse of late nineteenth-century science in order to show how Darwin's theory of sexual selection and Havelock Ellis's psychology of sex replicate fictions of female modesty. While those who sought to codify modest behavior in previous centuries often appealed to Nature for support, our modern understanding of the natural, Yeazell suggests, owes something to the work of the novelists.
Sharply reasoned and witty, Fictions of Modesty will appeal to all those interested in women's studies, the English novel, and the continuing history of relations between the sexes.
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- Excellent Early Exposure to Shakespeare
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- A Love Potion Gone Bad
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Lovely, but still.........2007-04-29
Most adults who read this know the basic story of the book: how King Oberon schemes to use magical lust to solve a dispute between himself and his bride Titania and how Puck, the sprite entrusted to carry out the scheme, manages to entangle four mortal lovers into the mix and nearly ruins everything. It is this scheming between Puck and Oberon that presents the main source of humor in the story; when you see two hapless men professing love to the same baffled woman and two women fighting like cats over men, you can't help but grin at the mayhem the now exasperated Oberon has caused.
However, I was never quite able to completely enjoy the humor that occured at the expense of Titania and the mortals. Call me old-fashioned, but I personally can't have a good laugh at the idea of using others like puppets in a play and my main concern here is whether all the humor in this story is appropriate for a child audience. Sure, Coville breaks down the adult dialogue, but that's only part of it; some of the main characters in the story simply don't have very strong morals. King Oberon humiliates his wife, steals something from her, uses a form of mind control on her, manipulates the humans in the story like they're nothing, and never shows any regret or pause! In this version, he doesn't even express pity for Titania's condition like he did in the original tale; he just pulls her like a puppet until he gets what he wants, then grins and tells Puck to undo everything, which I found infuriating and unsatisfying. Is this really a good story for kids? They should know it's not nice to take advantage of people, play tricks on them, and all the other various things characters do to each other here with no consequences.
I'm not a hater of this tale in general. I love the Rupert Everet version of the film, particularly because Oberon and even Puck show a trace of conscience while still retaining their typical mischievousness and Titania's actually treated like a fleshed out character instead of a cut-out made for Oberon's humor. I just wish Coville had treated Oberon and Puck like more than a plague visited on those they inflicted their tricks on. It's not an awful tale by any means, but I suggest reading with your kids.
On to a positive note, though: the illustrations are absolutely lovely and perfectly faerie. In fact, this was the reason I got it. The fairies are gorgeous, the humans classical Roman beauties, and Puck an adorable child who bears a striking resemblance to Oberon. (This is a particularly interesting note because Puck was actually acknowledged by one source of research as Oberon's son by a mortal woman. Apparently, Coville chose to acknowledge this.) As a lovely visual treat, this book is highly recommended!
Excellent Early Exposure to Shakespeare.......2007-01-11
I had my doubts about introducing Shakespeare to my 7 year old...until I got hold of Bruce Coville's book! My son loved the story and was really able to follow the complicated plots. He has a picture of each character at the beginning of the book for them to follow and we kept reviewing who was who and who liked who. Wonderful! He still likes to pull the book out and look at the beautiful pictures and review in his mind the story.
Recommended for Children of All Ages.......2005-04-15
My 5th grade students reading the original text of Romeo and Juliet love this book and the same author illustrator's version of that story for the simplicity of the language and for the phenomenal illustrations. The girls are especially interested, and wait for a turn to read the book.
My own 4 and 5 year old children love the book, and ask to have it read to them every night at bedtime. They love fairies in general, and that was their original draw to the story (along with the amazing pictures). They now play "Midsummer Night's Dream" at playtime, and the 5 year old actually watched (and loved)a DVD of the original language production after several readings of this.
I also highly recommend the same team's version of Romeo and Juiet for the same reasons, both 5th graders and preschoolers love them.
A Love Potion Gone Bad.......2003-09-17
The main charcters in this book are Lysander,Titania,Helena,Bottom,Puck and Oberon.You can tell that those names come from a book.Well their are two couples and one of them which is Lysander and Titania are having some problems.Titanias father doesn't want her to marry the man that she really wants to marry or the man that she really loves.So Titanias and Lysander plan to run away so that Titania won't have to marry someone that she doesn't love.Also someone in the book turns into a donkey.
I would tell pepople to read this book because ,its interesting and has alot of pictureds.If you like funny stuff or weird stuff that happens in books then this is the book for you.The book is a easy book ,to take a test on also.If you like some weird love stories then this is a good book.Its also a short book.Some pretty strange charcters in this book.
If I was gonna start all over again I wouldn't read this book becauseof?Its not something that you wanna keep reading.It doesn't have people that you can actually belive in.Somethings that happen in the book are unusual and probly won't ever happen in life .
A Colourful and Helpful Retelling of the Shakespeare Play.......2003-07-06
Be warned, if you're looking for the original text of Shakespeare's play, this is not it - this is a retelling of the play by Bruce Coville in the attempt to introduce younger readers to the realm of Shakespeare.
In attempting that, he succeeds very well in bringing the text to a new format - all the components of the tale are here (though obviously abridged), and are clearly and smoothly told, keeping most of the spirit of the play, as well as the most important of quotes, for instance - "The course of true love never did run smooth," and "What fools these mortals be".
Three plot threads run throughout the story set in ancient Athens under the rule of the Duke Theseus about to be wed to his own Amazon-bride. Foremost is the love-tangle between the virtually indistinguishable Helena, Lysander, Hermia and Demetrius. When Hermia and Demetrius decide to elope, racing away into the woods, Lynsander follows (who has been promised Hermia by her father), and chasing after him is the spurned Helena, desparately (and pathetically) in love with him.
Meanwhile, the King and Queen of Fairies, Oberon and Titania are having what can only be called a domestic over a young changeling boy that Oberon wants to join his service, but who Titania is determined to keep in remembrance of his mother, her devoted friend. To punish his Queen, Oberon sends his servent, the hobgoblin Puck, to fetch a flower capable of making anyone under its spell fall in love with whatever creature they behold.
Finally, the group of players led by Peter Quince and joined by Francis Flute and the famous Nick Bottom journey into the forest to practice their play to perform on the Duke's wedding day, and fall the victims of Puck's prankish nature, when he transforms the head of Bottom into that of an ass. Of course, it is he that Titania first spies when she awakens from her slumber...
It is a complicated and intricate play, full of mayhem and havoc in which everybody falls in love with everybody else, but Coville handles it well and keeps it simple to the point of abridging much of the final act in which Bottom and the players finally get to perform. However, such a scene is somewhat un-neccessary in the "storybook" context of this retelling, and its removal was probably a good idea. The themes of wayward love and its fickleness is still in place, whether it be the mis-matching of the young lovers, the quarrels between husband and wife, or the ridiculousness of the romantic, suicidal couple that the actors play "Pyramus and Thisby" (on which Shakespeare based "Romeo and Juliet").
The illustrations fit the story well. Though some might hope for intricate, highly detailed work that we usually see in fairy-books these days (such as the work of Brian Froud or K. Y. Craft), here the watercolours are in soft pastels, very clearly and simply planned and rendered. To help the reader along, there is an introductory page of the main character's busts, and the four lovers can be easily identified by their colour-coding (just remember - the blonde girl goes with the blonde boy and the dark-haired girl goes with the dark-haired boy). Bottom is hilarious with or without his ass-head, and you can tell just from his expression that he's a complete buffon.
Most of the fairies are as they are usually portrayed - small, winged, barefooted and delicate, but their impish faces and spindly bodies save them from appearing as those silly, cute, adorable little fairies that you might expect in Enid Blyton. To my mind, fairies must have a little of the mysterious and potential for malevolence about them. The potrayal of Oberon and Titania is somewhat odd - Titania appears as a full grown woman (though in a couple of pictures horribly stick-like, almost anorexic) but Oberon seems almost child-like, as if he's a boy in an over-sized sheet. Like the four lovers, many of the characters are portrayed as incredibly young, a theme that runs through into Puck.
It is Puck who is the centrepiece of this retelling, both in the narrative and in the pictures. With tangled hair and a fuzzy loincloth, the cheeky toddler whizzes about the air, sometimes the very picture of innocence, other times with a devilish grin. He can't help but make you smile when you see him.
Altogether, a good start to introduce young readers to the play, with nice clear pictures just this side of an art and/or fairy-lovers collection.
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground.
Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree. --Alix Wilber
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“Jane Austen remains the most misunderstood of great English writers . . . Austen’s is an extended, exploratory, dangerously subversive art, and is neither harmlessly decorative nor picturesquely provincial . . . [Irony] is the secret of the perfect self-sufficiency of Pride and Prejudice.”—from the Introduction by Peter Conrad
No novel in English has given more pleasure than Pride and Prejudice. Because it is one of the great works in our literature, critics in every generation reexamine and reinterpret it. But the rest of us simply fall in love with it—and with its wonderfully charming and intelligent heroine, Elizabeth Bennet. And everyone is held fast not only by the novel’s romantic suspense but also by the fascinations of the world we visit. The life of the English country gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century is made as real to us as our own, not only by the author’s wit and feeling but by her subtle observation of the way people behave in society and how we are true or treacherous to each other and to ourselves.
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Jane Austen's perfect comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues. "Pride and Prejudice seems as vital today as ever," writes Anna Quindlen in her introduction to this Modern Library edition. "It is a pure joy to read." Eudora Welty agrees: "The gaiety is unextinguished, the irony has kept its bite, the reasoning is still sweet, the sparkle undiminished. [It is] irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be."
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One of the GREAT ROMANCE CLASSICS of all time !!!.......2007-10-07
I really don't need to say much about this, do I ? Most women can relate to Elizabeth Bennett, and most women love Mr. Darcy....This is my favorite of all of Jane Austen's work, and one of my favorite romances ever.
Pride and Prejudice.......2007-09-10
Not as good a quality of book as I had expected, but it is very nice.
Amazing novel.......2007-08-20
I decided to go to the library and take out the book after seeing the movie a few weeks ago. The movie was good but the book is so much better. It was well written, funny and everything you can expect from a good novel. Definitely a must read even if it is not required for class.
Great seller!.......2007-08-12
I ordered from them after another seller failed to send the books I wanted. They had my order to my mailbox before the other seller even replied about their mistake. Efficient, accurate, fast & great prices.
A good classic.......2007-08-10
This is probably my favorite classics. I don't devote too much time to reading classics but I've read some good ones before. They are not really my style but I do like the ones I have read. The different style is refreshing.
The book is written much differently than books are written these days. I was reading the begining of the book while I was tiered. I realized that I hadn't understood anything I'd read. I had to go and read again when I was completely awake.
It was enjoyable. I loved the characters; they were smarter than so many characters in other books and were very well spoken. That may, however, been how most people were in the 19th century.
It was fun to watch Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy go on with their love hate relationship. Until the end it was a lot of hate.
I thought it was a good classic but having not read many classics I'm not sure how it compares. Better than Wuthering Heights and not as good or as good as Great Expectations.
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Katherine is the daughter of the lighthouse keeper. She dreams of becoming a painter. But in 1905, a girl can't grow up to be a famous artist -- can she?
Rose just moved to the town of Cape Light. She wants to fit in with her new friends, but Rose has a secret she can't share with anyone ...
Lizabeth is Kat's rich cousin who always gets what she wants. But Lizabeth soon finds out that money can't keep her from losing the most precious thing of all ...
Amanda's mother passed away, and now Amanda keeps house for her minister father. When she meets a very special young man, can she find the courage to be friends with him in spite of her father's disapproval?
The quiet New England town of Cape Light never seems to change. But starting in 1905, the lives of these four friends will be transformed in ways they never could have imagined ...
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Eeh, so-so.......2006-08-16
Not my favorite Ligthhouse Lane book. The whole time I was reading it I was screaming in my head, 'You idiot, Amanda, stand up for yourself!' It got annoying how she finally realizes it at the end of the book.
Also, I'm not suer this book was well reserched. It seemed like what they said when conversing and stuff was too.. different then the time period (1905-06).
Very Good.......2006-01-09
This book is a very good one and you won't want to put it down. One-fourth of this book is full of letters. Amanda is nice. Her friends are nice. Amanda's sister is cool. That is all.
OMG Its so good.......2005-08-02
I love this book when Jed (her boy friend) and her write in be tween each other. it gets hard for them when he leaves. i want to tell u more but then whats the point of reading it?
I love it.......2005-03-22
In this series Amanda writes to Jed (her boyfriend)after her father said no seeing eachother! This book is vary cool! Read it!
Lovely Addition to the 'Girls of Lighthouse Lane' Series.......2004-11-09
The year is late 1905, and thirteen-year-old Amanda Morgan has not had it easy since her Mother died while giving birth to her six-year-old sister Hannah, when she was a mere seven-years-old. Since then, she has taken the role of Mother, and has kept house for her Father, the minister of Cape Light. When Amanda meets Jed Langford, a wonderful sixteen-year-old boy whom she thinks she may be in love with, she thinks that her Father will be happy. But soon finds that he doesn't like Jed at all, and doesn't want her to have male callers at such a young age. So Amanda and Jed begin a secret correspondence, leaving letters for each other on an almost daily basis, which only leads Amanda to wonder, whether she and Jed ever be able to have a real relationship, or if they will have to keep it secret forever.
As a fan of Thomas Kinkade's magnificent paintings, as well as a fan of historical fiction, I found that AMANDA'S STORY was all that I'd hoped for and more. Amanda is a wonderful character, whose personality shines through in every letter that she sends to Jed, as well as through her actions in taking care of her sister, her Father, and spending time with her friends. Her wonderful outlook on life is uplifting, and will put a smile on the faces of all readers. A must have.
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An Improbable Dream
At forty, Tom Flynn has reached all the lofty goals of money and success he'd dreamed of as a boy struggling to survive. The only thing left on his list: Get married! But he hasn't a clue where to find the perfect wife--or even if he can change his love-'em-and-leave-'em ways. Until he shows up at his birthday party in the small town of Bethlehem and sits across the table from beautiful, desirable Holly McBride.
An Impossible Conquest
Wish for me, Holly thinks silently just as Tom blows out the candles on his cake. But Bethlehem's most eligible single woman wants only a sizzling fling, not a wedding ring. She's seen up close what a disaster marriage can be, and that's one mistake she plans to avoid. But Holly hasn't counted on Tom's single-minded campaign to win her heart--or some mysterious intervention in a special town where miracles are an everyday occurrence....
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Multimillionaire Bachelor Meets town Tramp.......2003-11-10
FIRST KISS by Marilyn Pappano
FIRST KISS is the second book that I have read in this series of books by Marilyn Pappano. The general theme that ties these novels together is that they take place in the small town of Bethlehem, New York, where everyone knows everyone. In this novel, Multimillionaire Tom Flynn meets the gorgeous and successful Holly McBride, who also is known by the town to have a tarnished reputation.
Tom has just turned 40, and he's achieved most of the goals on his "to do" list, including becoming a multi-millionaire. The only two goals left to reach are "get married" and "fall in love". When he sees Holly at his small private birthday gathering with best friends Ross and Maggie, he decides that Holly is going to be the one. Now, if only Holly will cooperate.
Holly's philosophy has always been love them and leave them. Never getting closer to a man than a healthy sexual relationship, she has dated and bedded nearly every man in town. Tom has been one man that has eluded her, and she has an itch to get him into bed too. Unfortunately, she soon finds out that Tom wants more than just sex, and she is not very pleased with this turn of events.
As Tom and Holly do their little dance of love and enticement, the rest of the town watches in anticipation. In the meantime, Holly is dealing with her restaurant business and a new girl that she's hired out of pity, Bree. Bree is more than any employer can handle, but Holly keeps her on for some reason. Holly also is dealing with an alcoholic mother who keeps reappearing into her life at the wrong moments. Both of them, though, agree - there is something about Bree that they can't quite make out, and they wonder if they have met her before.
FIRST KISS was yet another enjoyable romance by Marilyn Pappano. Her style is reminiscent of the series by Debbie Macomber, where each novel continues on with the stories of the people living in this particular town. However, where Macomber's novels failed to spark anything in me, the Pappano novels I highly recommend. They each are self-contained, but can be even more enjoyable if read in chronological order, so as to slowly get to know the people of Bethlehem, New York and the ties that bind them to each other. I have not been following this advice; nevertheless, the books are just as enjoyable read out of order as they are in order. Thumbs up for FIRST KISS!
The Magic Continues.......2002-07-19
For anyone who has read the previous Bethlehem books, the wonderful storytelling of Marilyn Pappano continues in one of the best books in the series. Holly & Tom at first seem to be a good match for superficial reasons, but Tom soon discovers their compatibility goes far beyond that. Holly, however, isn't convinced! Watch the sparks fly as Tom tries to court Bethlehem's most eligible-and-completely-happy-with-that-fact bachelorette. I loved this book & have already gotten a friend of mine hooked on the series.
Magical love story.......2000-12-26
I always like a touch of magic with my love stories. Love is a magical feeling and this book delivers nicely. It does help to have read some of Marilyn Pappano's earlier series, otherwise you may find that the character identification moves too quickly in the beginning (particularly for the secondary characters). I take away one star for this issue. The lack of story depth lost it one more star. However, having said that, I enjoyed this book as a nice simple lift from everyday life. A bit of mind candy for a trying day.
Many of us know someone who has sacrificed their personal life for their work or who believes that marriage will never be for them again. Here is a chance to meet two people who learn how to make up for lost time. With a quick wish, Holly gets more than she bargains for in Tom. A quick fun read, a great beach, bathtub or any other time for "relaxing without stress" book.
Great Twist on an old Topic!.......2000-10-18
Once again, I have to that the AMAZON.COM recommendation crew for picking me another winner. I loved this book! It was sharp, witty and surprisingly touching. In 'First Kiss', the twist is that it's the man who wants to settle down and marry, and the woman who's looking for nothing more than a thrilling affair. Of course, we the readers , know that every good love story needs a little kick-in-the-pants from fate or perhaps something more along the lines of...divine intervention. By the first quarter of the book I was in love with Tom myself, and couldn't figure out what was taking Holly so long to go completely head over heels for this gorgeous hunk. Even the secondary characters here were enjoyable and pleasant, and Holly's confession of love actually brought a tear to my eye. I'll be on the lookout for other books by Ms. Pappano. 'First Kiss' is joining my collection of books I will definately read again.
Breaks Convention Plus Very Good.......2000-10-04
One wouldn't think that it would be a genre making move to write about a heroine who is not a virgin. However, the romance genre remains unwilling generally to use other kinds of heroines even with its contemporary romance novels. Thus, author Pappano really bucked that convention by writing about a heroine with a colorful and significant sexual history, who is 37 years old. That neither she nor the hero want children is groundbreaking as well. Essentially, the novel is about two experienced people who fight about whether they can reinvent themselves into a sedate married couple. He thinks they can; she thinks they can't. The heroine's immediate family members are also characters and help us understand how she came to her way of thinking about relationships, especially marriages, not being workable. It's a very good novel, well written but not particularly gripping. It was easy enough for me to put it down and pick it up a day later without any sense of urgency. Ultimately, it just didn't tug on my emotional heartstrings enough. It typically takes that emotional reaction for me to put a novel on my own personal list of five star books.
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Lovely.......2002-10-06
This is a very pleasant courtship story. The overwhelming theme throughout is how first there must be devotion to God first, and then devotion to each other will follow. Eric and Leslie Ludy realized the priority of personal piety and obedience, and this helped them act in a faithful, upright way throughout their courtship. This is an encouraging story.
His Perfect Faithfulness.......2002-01-22
This story is truly the most inspiring love story I've ever read. Not only does it show Eric and Leslie's faithfulness to wait on God's timing and His plan for their love and their lives, but it shows God's "Perfect Faithfulness" to the two of them in that he took both of their lives, trasformed them, and then brought them together. This book taught me that the wisest thing to do is to just give your life and heart fully over to God, let him form you into who He wants you to be, and then wait for Him to give you someone to share yourself with. It was amazing to hear their story of love for each other and God as they grew. They are an oustanding example of a 'match made in heaven', literally. I would recommend this book to everyone, it will change your attitude and outlook on love and life.
Reading this book has changed my life in unimaginable ways!.......1999-10-15
Eric and Leslie Ludy have truly had their love story written by God. And it is the most romantic story I have ever read, seen, or heard of. They tell how they gave God the pen to their love story, how He made it so romantic and pure, and how you, too, can have a love story as wonderful and unique as theirs. This is a MUST READ if you are looking for the most pure, romantic, and godly love story. I recomend it to anyone!
Do you ever plan to get married? If so, this book is for you.......1998-10-22
This is an AWESOME book about Eric and Leslie's courtship. It gave me an idea of how God wants my relationships to be. This book showed me that you can have a relationship with the opposite sex and still live holy and pure in the sight of God, not just sexually pure but even mentally. If you are looking for a husband or wife or you plan to sometime in the future this book was written for you.
AN OUTSTANDING AND INSPERATIONAL BOOK!!!!!!.......1998-10-03
His Perfect Faithfulness is a WONDERFUL book!! I have read this book LOTS of times, and have loaned it to at LEAST 5 families, and ALL of them have LOVED IT just as much as I have!!! I HIGHLY RECCOMMEND that you BUY this WONDERFUL and TOUCHING story!! It really gives the reader a different perspective on dating. ~K.K.
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