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Summary: first love and power
Review: From the first moment I was hooked. How could I not be? We all have, somewhere in our past or present, a love story we keep hidden behind a closed door, the kind of story we just wish we could change the ending.And when a book is so promising in its first words, it?s difficult to not anticipate a let down. We can just hope that the story will unfold in front of our eyes, beautiful and inspiring. That we might lose ourselves and our souls in it, that these pages might be the ones we would have liked to write. And where we might have failed, Sylvia Brownrigg succeeds. We find ourselves breathing in sync to the rythm of the words. The words she chose for us. But maybe what?s really amazing is the intimity she manages to create and ultimatly the feelings that emerge as we read. For all of us who fell in love with someone who was out of reach, for what could have been and what could never be. A beautiful read
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Summary: "...Now here are your pages"
Review: I couldn't help but enjoy this book immensely, despite its supposed flaws. As a romance novel with an admirable plot, it is quite successful, but as the story of Flannery going through the pains of realizing herself as a lesbian and coming out, it fails. However, I'm not convinced that Brownrigg was attempting to focus on the "coming out" issue anyway. This may or may not really be perceived as a flaw. In our time, it would be silly to think that Flannery's realization wouldn't have a huge impact on her life, and nearly impossible to side-step it, but perhaps Brownrigg wanted her book to focus on the romance instead. It's hard to say what would be preferable. Maybe what might be perceived as Brownrigg's oversight can be the beginning of a change in our culture that would make the realization of homosexuality not so weighty, so writers can concentrate on the relationships, not the tolerance issues. The writing is intense and vivid, and I felt I could relate to Flannery's frustration immensely. Anyone who has ever appreciated literature, been a confused 17-year-old in college, or fallen in love with an older and more experienced person can relate to the conflicts here. I really feel that it can be a kind of therapy for those who have had the feelings Flannery experiences for an older woman but have never been fortunate (or unfortunate--whatever the case may be) enough to act on them. I think the resolution is satisfying, and the old but ever-important reminder that life goes on is taught well.
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Summary: "...Now here are your pages"
Review: I couldn't help but enjoy this book immensely, despite its supposed flaws. As a romance novel with an admirable plot, it is quite successful, but as the story of Flannery going through the pains of realizing herself as a lesbian and coming out, it fails. However, I'm not convinced that Brownrigg was attempting to focus on the "coming out" issue anyway. This may or may not really be perceived as a flaw. In our time, it would be silly to think that Flannery's realization wouldn't have a huge impact on her life, and nearly impossible to side-step it, but perhaps Brownrigg wanted her book to focus on the romance instead. It's hard to say what would be preferable. Maybe what might be perceived as Brownrigg's oversight can be the beginning of a change in our culture that would make the realization of homosexuality not so weighty, so writers can concentrate on the relationships, not the tolerance issues. The writing is intense and vivid, and I felt I could relate to Flannery's frustration immensely. Anyone who has ever appreciated literature, been a confused 17-year-old in college, or fallen in love with an older and more experienced person can relate to the conflicts here. I really feel that it can be a kind of therapy for those who have had the feelings Flannery experiences for an older woman but have never been fortunate (or unfortunate--whatever the case may be) enough to act on them. I think the resolution is satisfying, and the old but ever-important reminder that life goes on is taught well.
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Summary: Good read for the open minded
Review: I enjoyed reading this book. It is a good book if you want to take a lazy day and get lost in your own little world. We know that the two main characters in this book are female lovers, but never is there a point where the run around screaming "we're lesbians and proud!" It is a well written book. It isn't written to help create tolerance, it is just a love story between two women who just happen to be women. I highly recommened this book to anyone (but it helps a lot more if you are open minded).
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Summary: Greatest book
Review: I love this book it was a very good I couldn't put it down. Their was some stuff that was like wow you know it was just a great book. I think everyone needs to read this so everyone know what it's like. The characters take you on this ride of emotions and it doesn't stop until the end that's all I have to say. I think if people read this book then they would kinda think before they act I'm not saying anything bad or anything but can we think before we judge thanks.
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Summary: Absolutely Fantastic
Review: I loved this book so much, after i read it, i couldnt go into my room without picking it up and flicking through it, catching scattered sentences that threw me once more back into the ever absorbing story. Perhaps its my empathy with the theme, or the ease in which i can relate to the characters and their feelings, but the way the book is written, the development of the central figures as they discover each other captured me totally. The quirky and witty conversations and discussions, as well as the settings and descriptions makes this book much more than a soppy love story. Give this book a read! you wont regret it.
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Summary: Beautiful words
Review: I was amazed at the lyricism inthis book. It shook me to my core, and had me copying out passages to read and re-read.
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Summary: Didn't live up to Potential
Review: Pages for you had potential to be a good book. It had a good plot, it had two intresting and developed leads, but it the book could have been so much more. The book also was set up in a funny way, which prevented the book from flowing in the way a novel should. It was an okay read, but if you can avoid spending $10+ on it, do so.
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Summary: lyrical & moving
Review: The first thing that springs to mind after reading some of the other reviews posted here is a warning: This is not a Lesbian Love Story (TM). If you come to the book with some sort of quasi-political agenda, you're going to be disappointed--Brownrigg isn't interested in making points about tolerance, or casting new light on lesbian culture (whatever that may be). Indeed, neither of the two central characters is ever defined as a lesbian: Brownrigg, unlike a lot of folks, apparently knows how to count to three. As to what the book is--it's a FIRST-love story, plain and simple. Flannery, with all the blind idealism of the seventeen year old, falls headlong into love with an Older Woman (all of twenty-eight!) and lives to tell about it. The experience is evoked in all sorts of small, effective ways; I found myself cringing and smiling at the same time as I recognized my younger self in Flannery. Her awkwardness, her embarassment, her unreserved embrace of not only her beloved but also the experience of being in love for the first time, as well as the confused unease that follows the first realization that the lover may not, in fact, be as perfect as once believed, all ring true.
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Summary: A testament to the beauty of nostalgia
Review: This is the first book I've read that truly embraces the detached intimacy that nostalgia can evoke. From the prolog you know their love will not turn out with a "happily ever after;" you can respect the journey of Flannery's love and respect the bittersweet flavor of ominous foreshadowing.
The voice that narrates this story is detached in a way that allows you to imagine an older, wiser Flannery narrating something that she remembers vividly; however, the narrator is such a vastly different person by the time she's narrating it that it feels almost foreign. I was, at first, thrown by the third-person narration of a book that I felt was narrated by one of the characters but it artfully depicts the difference in perspective between the characters and the narrator. Don't be thrown by the narration or the wistful nostalgia in Brownrigg's voice; it works.
Completely relatable and utterly believable, from the build of obsession into love to the evolution of their love and intimacy. Knowing that they won't be together in the end doesn't spoil the sweetness of their story. If you can appreciate the grandeur of the Titanic knowing that it's now lying deep in the Atlantic, then you can appreciate the beauty of this love/story knowing that it is doomed.
I only wish I could know the memory that inspired Brownrigg to write this story.
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