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Manufacturer: Delta
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Binding: Kindle Edition
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
Format: Kindle Book
Label: Delta
Manufacturer: Delta
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: 2004-10-26
Publisher: Delta
Release Date: 2004-10-26
Studio: Delta
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Four strong women from different walks of life in Australia, London and San Francisco, they've all come to the breathtakingly beautiful isle of Corfu seeking the same thing—refuge. Between marriage woes, dead-end careers, and demanding families, these women need a vacation—a little sun, a few shots of Sambuca, and a couple of sexy Greek men will surely allow them to relax, right? Maybe not.
Australian Claire Dillon is 46, still has amazing legs, and is ready for a change. Her husband is having an affair with a 29-year old masseuse, and her gay son is looking for a father figure in a series of unsuitable boyfriends. When she takes off for Corfu in the middle of disaster, everyone says she's gone mad—and she's out to prove them right.
Parker Glass' marriage lasted eleven days, not exactly what the perfectionist interior designer from San Francisco had dreamed of. After a breakdown at work, her partner firmly suggests she use her scheduled honeymoon time for some much needed sun and relaxation in the Greek Isles. At first, the vacation seems just the thing for getting her life back on track... but sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.
Anya Soberanes is convinced she's cursed—how else could she still be looking for her soulmate? When her aunt finds her unconscious in her San Francisco apartment after inadvertently overdosing on sleeping pills and telenovelas, her parents give her an ultimatum: either take a vacation with her friend's sister Parker, or check into a mental-health facility. As Anya discovers, facing her fears is easy in Greece—it's making her dreams come true that's the hard part.
25-year old Londoner Kelah Morris wants more than anything to publish a brilliant novel and prove to her editor mother that she's destined for more than selling popcorn at the cinema. All Kelah needs is an escape from her overbearing parents, dead-end job, jailbird brother and just-published friends to free herself of her infamous writer's block. Butshe doesn't factor in the possibility of wild career success and true love on her island getaway.
Together, these four women discover that sometimes you need to get away from it all to discover what you really need.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Summary: Great Summer Read!
Comment: I read this book one afternoon I was home sick with the flu. Its about female relationships, reinventing yourself and finding out who you are. As a woman who has gone through a divorce and is contemplating another serious relationship, it was a quick reminder to never give up on your dreams and do what makes you happy.
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Summary: Started out good but...
Comment: This book is definitely readable -- short chapters, clearly identified povs. But I really felt it hard to feel connected to the four women -- really connected, that is. The timeline moves quite quickly and pov shifts often. I felt as though I was watching a play, and getting to know the characters on a surface level only. Still, the author has a nice writing style.
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Summary: really disappointed
Comment: I thought I would like this book, I was SO wrong. I don't mind 'beach reads' sometimes its nice to not have to think too hard about a story, but this book was awful. It is a really really basic story, almost non-existent. The characters are so predictable, its cheesy. I found myself cringing at the totally unrealistic story lines. The only intriging thing about this book was how the author got it published. It is cheesy predictable, and thats fine if its also fun, reading this was not fun at all. Read on the beach...if you want to fall asleep, thats all its good for. Really Awful.
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Summary: Island Paradise!
Comment: What happens when four very different women reach crossroads in their lives and decide that, instead of facing the harshness of reality, they will run into the open arms of paradise? The result is a hilarious romp through the idyllic island of Corfu in Greece, where love is found, destiny is met, and friendships are forged.
Kim Green has created a cast of lovable characters. There is 46-year-old Claire Dillon, who has just discovered that her husband is having an affair. Parker Glass, the perfectionist, is recovering from a marriage that was anything but perfect --- lasting only eleven days. Desperately single Anya Soberanes believes she is cursed and will never find love. And finally, there's Kelah Morris, who thinks she will never become the novelist she dreams of becoming and will, in turn, forever disappoint her mother.
PAGING APHRODITE proves that sometimes you have to escape reality to find out what matters in life. This is a light-hearted and life-affirming novel that lifts the spirit and shows us that life can be as spectacular as an island paradise.
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Summary: Need a little girly vacation in Greece?
Comment: This book was such a pleasant vacation for me...and I do mean vacation. I started to get caught up in the setting and the characters and at times, shortly after I'd put the book down to do something else, I'd think wistfully about the Greek summer sojourn I had going on over there in closed pages. This is chick lit doing what chick lit does best: entertaining, uplifting, commiserating and titillating all with a dash of fantasy to allow the readers some escape. It's a narrative told by the four main characters in alternating chapters. It's a device that when done well really works and when not done well confuses. I have to admit that in the first section of the book, I had a hard time keeping track of who was who and which who had which set of problems, but eventually I was able to get it down pat and enjoy myself. The characters, both and main and supporting, really grow on you and you'll be almost sorry to see everything work out and end. The story centers around Anya (a clinically depressed Chicana from San Francisco's Mission District who thinks she was hexed with a love curse) who is sent to the island of Corfu with her sister's friend, Parker (a post-nervous breakdown, pill-popping interior designer whose husband of 11 days left her to build houses in impoverished South America) and the two other women they become friends with, Claire (an Aussie housewife who gave up a burgeoning singing career to have a family with a man who just recently cheated on her) and Kelah (a young London writer of British and Jamaican descent with a myriad of family problems ranging from her brother in jail and her perfectionist editor mother). These four women who fled to Greece to escape their problems at home create an alliance and form a support group named The Seven Seeds of Persephone. And because we all read these kinds of books for some happy closure, they learn to face their fears of inadequacy, realize their worth and achieve their true goals during a summer in the small town of Pelekastritsa. Beach read, winter read dreaming of the beach...for whatever reason, season, whatever, this is well-written escapist entertainment.
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