Patience & Sarah

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Summary: a story about authentic love and committment
Review: A lovely story of finding genuine love, and finding this personal awareness and passion, long before society was willing accept same-gender lovers. Always believable, highly literate, this novel will inspire you to seek out and build a love such as Patience and Saran had for yourself. In this current time where many attactions appear to evaporate in the morning sun, partners will want to read this together. Patience and Sarah will inspire you and your love to build an enduring bond.

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Summary: An Excellent Read!
Review: Although this book is no grand litery work I really enjoyed it. I was searching for a quick read that would be enjoyable and require little effort on my part, this book was perfect. The story is charming and it is easy to get caught up in the story. It is nice warm fuzzy of a book.

Perfect for the airplane, beach or in front of the fire with some hot chocolate.

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Summary: A wonderful and deeply moving lesbian love story
Review: I first read this book about 20+ years ago. I loved it then, and I love it every bit as much now. It's a beautiful story of two women who fall in love in puritanical New England. Their love story is exquisite. (By the way, anyone who enjoyed P&S will also love Nanci Little's THE GRASS WIDOW. It's out of print now, but worth a search.)

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Summary: Warm and Humorous
Review: Miller's writing ability is to be highly commended. She manages to combine warmth, love and humor into each page. Having read one too many "small blond" books, it's refreshing to find a lesbian love story in which the writing technique does not become irritating after the first chapter.

Also, this book contains no elderly, non-judgemental housekeepers. The women have to figure things out all by themselves.

Best line in the book: "I'm not playing you, Darling, I'm landing you."

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Summary: The Courage to Love
Review: Originally published in 1969 under the title _A Place for Us_, this work may have been a breakthrough in its time, but now its a giant step backward for lesbian fiction. The characters in this book, while touchingly in love, have not the realist punch necessary to keep this book going. MOre importantly, if we are to analyze this book from a socially aware perspective, it seems that the social interactions are poisoned by a ``butch-femme'' conflation of expression and orientation. There currently no shortage of far, far better novels out there, both lesbian and not.

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Summary: Melting...A Classic
Review: This wonderful book used to be one of the few positive lesbian books out there. I know when I found it, years ago, I was comforted by the portrayal of two women making their way in a world that does not want them to be together. They lack even the words to describe their feelings for each other. When one describes her physical reaction to the other's lovemaking as "melting" I thought that was a perfect description for the book. It made all my cynicism melt away for a while.

It's a period piece and a well-written romantic tale that no true romantic will want to miss.