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Blue Dusk
Robin and Kate meet in Paris and fall in love. After ten years of successful and happy marriage their five-year-old son dies of meningitis and the relationship is tested to its limits as they are plunged into unendurable grief. The author also wrote "Choices" and "Summer Secrets".
394 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1990
About the author
Susan E. Goodman
128 books31 followersSusan E. Goodman is the author of more than thirty nonfiction books for children, including How Do You Burp in Space?; See How They Run: Campaign Dreams, Election Schemes, and the Race to the White House;All in Just One Cookie, an ALA Notable Book; and On This Spot, a Washington Post Top Picture Book of the Year. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
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January 8, 2019
brilliant book although sad in the middle
January 6, 2012
3.5 stars, less or more as my thoughts don't seem to agree with my feelings. Will ponder over it and write a decent review soon enough.
Can't decide on whether I loved this one or not. The first 200 pages seemed to drag on for forever and it felt like it could use some more editing. (Seriously though, did they have a lack-of-editors crisis in the 80s or is it just a coincidence?)..
However the first half was merrier than a happy-ever-after and it felt all wrong. I like it best when the boring past is introduced to the reader later on, folding out while true action takes place on the story's timeline. And not taking all 200 darned pages from beginning to like half of the book. (Makes any sense?).
But on the bright side things started to pick up some speed and real twists all at once and that's when I fell for it and thanked myself for not giving up on it.
The story is about a young lady and a gentleman who cross paths in Paris, blah blah blah. Regardless to say it ends with a happy marriage, and more blah. But then life throws at them their share of lemon all at once disguised in a great loss. And that's when their love is put for challenge for the first time.
To say a tearjerker would be an underestimation, and every time you'd think you can see what's coming next, the plot will take another twist. I recommend it for anyone who is patient enough to go through the beginning.
Can't decide on whether I loved this one or not. The first 200 pages seemed to drag on for forever and it felt like it could use some more editing. (Seriously though, did they have a lack-of-editors crisis in the 80s or is it just a coincidence?)..
However the first half was merrier than a happy-ever-after and it felt all wrong. I like it best when the boring past is introduced to the reader later on, folding out while true action takes place on the story's timeline. And not taking all 200 darned pages from beginning to like half of the book. (Makes any sense?).
But on the bright side things started to pick up some speed and real twists all at once and that's when I fell for it and thanked myself for not giving up on it.
The story is about a young lady and a gentleman who cross paths in Paris, blah blah blah. Regardless to say it ends with a happy marriage, and more blah. But then life throws at them their share of lemon all at once disguised in a great loss. And that's when their love is put for challenge for the first time.
To say a tearjerker would be an underestimation, and every time you'd think you can see what's coming next, the plot will take another twist. I recommend it for anyone who is patient enough to go through the beginning.
August 7, 2022
One of my first grown up novels I must have been about 12 years old and it’s still a beautiful love story with heartbreak and one of my favorite books
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