Where Love Goes

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Summary: A very enjoyable book!
Review: A spirited, fun and engaging story about love, sex and parenting. Claire felt like a friend and I truly cared about her happiness. This novel was altogether satisfying! Thank you, Joyce Maynard!

Rating:
Summary: A very enjoyable book!
Review: A spirited, fun and engaging story about love, sex and parenting. Claire felt like a friend and I truly cared about her happiness. This novel was altogether satisfying! Thank you, Joyce Maynard!

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Summary: Oprah, please consider for your next book club selection!
Review: Consider "Where Love Goes", one of my very favorite books. Similar to the television program "Once and Again", it involved two divorced people who each have kids, who fall madly madly madly in love, and attempt to blend their awkward, hostile families. The parents are on cloud nine, the kids loathe each other - non-hilarity results! The relationships are mercilessly examined in minute detail, with often toe-curling reactions in the reader. Anyone who has kids, who has fallen in love with someone with their own kids, ought to read this book to get a clue as to what the not-in-love kids feel about the whole thing. It will make you think twice about remarriage. The writing, of course, is what makes this book so good, you grow to feel deeply for all of the characters just as if they were real people you knew. Or at least people on TV! There's much to be said for waiting until the kids are out on their own before giving into one's private bliss. A very, very good book, I'm re-reading it for the third time.

Rating:
Summary: Oprah, please consider for your next book club selection!
Review: Consider "Where Love Goes", one of my very favorite books. Similar to the television program "Once and Again", it involved two divorced people who each have kids, who fall madly madly madly in love, and attempt to blend their awkward, hostile families. The parents are on cloud nine, the kids loathe each other - non-hilarity results! The relationships are mercilessly examined in minute detail, with often toe-curling reactions in the reader. Anyone who has kids, who has fallen in love with someone with their own kids, ought to read this book to get a clue as to what the not-in-love kids feel about the whole thing. It will make you think twice about remarriage. The writing, of course, is what makes this book so good, you grow to feel deeply for all of the characters just as if they were real people you knew. Or at least people on TV! There's much to be said for waiting until the kids are out on their own before giving into one's private bliss. A very, very good book, I'm re-reading it for the third time.

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Summary: Why Not Sex and Motherhood?
Review: I am a great fan of Joyce Maynard's. She views the world with an interesting eye. This story of a divorced lady trying to cope with raising kids and her own desires, was very real to me. Claire's ups and downs, loves and non-loves were funny and sad at the same time. I found myself cheering for her all through the book.

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Summary: Very touching and real
Review: I am a great fan of Joyce Maynard's. She views the world with an interesting eye. This story of a divorced lady trying to cope with raising kids and her own desires, was very real to me. Claire's ups and downs, loves and non-loves were funny and sad at the same time. I found myself cheering for her all through the book.

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Summary: It got inside my heart.
Review: I loved this book and can not wait to read more by this author. The characters came alive and I laughed and cried with them. But mostly I am glad I have worked through all the problems of marriage and will celebrate my 35th anniversary this summer. My children are emotionally healthy and so are my 5 grandchildren.

Rating:
Summary: It got inside my heart.
Review: I loved this book and can not wait to read more by this author. The characters came alive and I laughed and cried with them. But mostly I am glad I have worked through all the problems of marriage and will celebrate my 35th anniversary this summer. My children are emotionally healthy and so are my 5 grandchildren.

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Summary: Touching and finely crafted
Review: I loved this book. It will remain in my library to be savored at a later date. Maynard is an author to contend with, and I would like to see another novel from her hands soon.

Rating:
Summary: Touching and finely crafted
Review: I loved this book. It will remain in my library to be savored at a later date. Maynard is an author to contend with, and I would like to see another novel from her hands soon.