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O Amor é uma Canoa
Stella Petrovic é uma ambiciosa editora a braços com uma missão quase impossível: colocar um livro nas listas de bestsellers mais concorridas dos Estados Unidos.
Mas não se trata de um livro qualquer e sim do manual de autoajuda O Casamento é uma Canoa, que foi publicado há já cinquenta anos. Peter Herman é um herói nacional graças a esse mesmo livro, o primeiro
e último da sua carreira. Os conselhos sentimentais de O Casamento é uma Canoa inspiraram gerações de americanos. Com um casamento longo e feliz, Peter era a prova da eficácia das suas próprias palavras. Agora, viúvo e sem esperança, duvida de tudo o que escreveu tantos anos antes. Para Stella, o que está em jogo não suporta dúvidas ou hesitações. A editora está disposta a tudo para convencer o mundo de que O
Casamento é, de facto, uma Canoa. E nada melhor do que encontrar um casal em busca de salvação. Emily e Eli estão casados há pouco tempo mas a paixão que os uniu está desgastada pela rotina. São perfeitos para o plano que Stella tem em mente... mas, para isso, ela terá de conseguir o apoio da única pessoa que não acredita no livro: o seu autor.
Mas não se trata de um livro qualquer e sim do manual de autoajuda O Casamento é uma Canoa, que foi publicado há já cinquenta anos. Peter Herman é um herói nacional graças a esse mesmo livro, o primeiro
e último da sua carreira. Os conselhos sentimentais de O Casamento é uma Canoa inspiraram gerações de americanos. Com um casamento longo e feliz, Peter era a prova da eficácia das suas próprias palavras. Agora, viúvo e sem esperança, duvida de tudo o que escreveu tantos anos antes. Para Stella, o que está em jogo não suporta dúvidas ou hesitações. A editora está disposta a tudo para convencer o mundo de que O
Casamento é, de facto, uma Canoa. E nada melhor do que encontrar um casal em busca de salvação. Emily e Eli estão casados há pouco tempo mas a paixão que os uniu está desgastada pela rotina. São perfeitos para o plano que Stella tem em mente... mas, para isso, ela terá de conseguir o apoio da única pessoa que não acredita no livro: o seu autor.
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First published January 8, 2013
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October 20, 2012
Definitely another one of those cases where I kept expecting the book to get better, so I kept reading. There is almost nothing I can find to praise about this book. The characters were largely two dimensional, the dialogue was stilted, and other than the sections about infidelity or job anxiety, very little felt realistic to me.
I think I mostly kept reading because (1) the book was published by FSG, a publisher whom I usually respect, and (2) the author is involved with Razorbill.
I think I mostly kept reading because (1) the book was published by FSG, a publisher whom I usually respect, and (2) the author is involved with Razorbill.
January 13, 2013
Several decades ago Peter Herman wrote a book about marriage and called it 'Love is a Canoe'. It is a folksy book about lessons he learned while spending summers with his grandparents while he was growing up. His parents were in a horrible relationship and his summers were the only happy time in his life, especially watching his grandparents interact. The book has been in print for fifty years and many people have used it to save their marriages. It contains advice like 'Good love is a quilt - light as feathers and strong as iron.' 'A good marriage is a canoe - it needs care and isn't meant to hold too much - no more than two adults and a few kids'. Recently, Peter has been in a funk. The love of his life, LIsa, has died and he is in a new relationship that he can not fully commit to. His publishing company wants to improve sales of his book and so they hold a contest, asking people to write their stories, asking for help with their marriages, with the prize being a weekend with Peter who will help them work on their relationship.
Emily Babson and her husband, Eli Correlli are experiencing marital problems. Eli has just had an affair and Emily enters the contest. She has read and re-read Peter's book several times since she was a twelve year-old girl growing up in a household with fighting parents that ended in their getting a divorce. She loves Eli and believes that their marriage can be saved. She wins the contest and the action starts from there. Together, she and Eli go to spend the time with Peter and Emily hopes, more than anything, that she can forgive Eli and he can remain faithful. In fact, she is even thinking of having children.
At first, I thought I would not like the book, that it would be too hokey and folksy for me. In fact, the opposite happened. I fell in love with it. It rings so true and the couple could be any one of a million of us. The book tells the story from Emily's point of view, Peter's, and Peter's publisher. We get a first-hand view of the clawing and cat fighting int the publishing industry and for those involved in this enterprise, it rings pretty true.
This is a wonderful book. While I believe it is geared more towards women than men, it is written by a man who gets women, really gets them. He also gets men. I just think that the topic will attract more women than men but I may be wrong. It is a book that I nearly missed reading and I'm so thankful that I didn't. It's a winner and a keeper. It's a book that takes the reader by the hand and walks you through surprise after surprise with tenderness, truth, anger, love, and despair. It's made up of all the emotions that come to pass in relationships and rings as true as a bell.
Emily Babson and her husband, Eli Correlli are experiencing marital problems. Eli has just had an affair and Emily enters the contest. She has read and re-read Peter's book several times since she was a twelve year-old girl growing up in a household with fighting parents that ended in their getting a divorce. She loves Eli and believes that their marriage can be saved. She wins the contest and the action starts from there. Together, she and Eli go to spend the time with Peter and Emily hopes, more than anything, that she can forgive Eli and he can remain faithful. In fact, she is even thinking of having children.
At first, I thought I would not like the book, that it would be too hokey and folksy for me. In fact, the opposite happened. I fell in love with it. It rings so true and the couple could be any one of a million of us. The book tells the story from Emily's point of view, Peter's, and Peter's publisher. We get a first-hand view of the clawing and cat fighting int the publishing industry and for those involved in this enterprise, it rings pretty true.
This is a wonderful book. While I believe it is geared more towards women than men, it is written by a man who gets women, really gets them. He also gets men. I just think that the topic will attract more women than men but I may be wrong. It is a book that I nearly missed reading and I'm so thankful that I didn't. It's a winner and a keeper. It's a book that takes the reader by the hand and walks you through surprise after surprise with tenderness, truth, anger, love, and despair. It's made up of all the emotions that come to pass in relationships and rings as true as a bell.
March 29, 2013
When I was 10 I had a plastic boat that had a clear bottom. I was out in Lake Champlain and lost both my oars, not a rower, and just kind of drifted about, ended up going out kind of far, not far enough that I couldn't swim back to shore, but far enough that very tall stalks of seaweed were growing. Nightmare for me then and for me now. I'd rather have to have those tall stalks of seaweed wrap around my legs and pull me under while I stared down Champ the Sea Monster then read this book again.
"Love is a Canoe" is a poorly executed piece of writing. I connected to it the same way I would with a trite and empty self help book. It was a predictable and formulaic read that just did not work for me. The characters felt flat and cliched. Just an overall painful read, but as with all books I gave it every chance and read it to the end to find that one thing to like about it, I wasn't able to find anything interesting or redeemable in the novel.
"Love is a Canoe" is a poorly executed piece of writing. I connected to it the same way I would with a trite and empty self help book. It was a predictable and formulaic read that just did not work for me. The characters felt flat and cliched. Just an overall painful read, but as with all books I gave it every chance and read it to the end to find that one thing to like about it, I wasn't able to find anything interesting or redeemable in the novel.
January 30, 2013
This is a good book and I do recommend it. The writing is really strong, the overall premise clever and I really enjoyed the sly publishing insider stuff which is absolutely hilarious if you catch it. There is some really brilliant characterization going on in this book. Schrank absolutely knows the people he means to write about. Toward the end of the book, my attention started to wane but the first half is absolutely 4/5 stars. Unfortunately, by the end of the novel, Schrank looses his grip on his characters and they become a bit indistinct and erratic and not in a way that serves the plot. The ending lacked the care the early part of the book had. Emily Babson is a fascinating character and is so well drawn she could be part of any class on teaching character development. One of the more disappointing characters though was Peter, this guy who comes up with this book, Love is a Canoe, and is really quite unlikable (not a problem) but just... at times it felt like Schrank wasn't quite sure what to do with him. The ending was so tidy, and it made me a little angry, that tidiness because...there were so few consequences for the bad behavior of many of the characters. I wanted there to be consequences--not punishments, but consequences. It just felt like, well, here's your happy ending! It didn't feel earned. STILL! This is well worth reading. I really want to give it 3.5 stars. I also want to talk about it so if you've read it let's talk about it.
September 19, 2012
I would love to give this book to a merciless editor. There's so much to love here, from the funny, crackling dialogue to the pleasure of watching a marriage dissolve—but there's also way too much of everything. The story drags, the excerpts from the advice book become monotonous, and it feels like every scene gets repeated twice.
May 27, 2013
A story of a shmaltzy self help book and how it connected several different people. Technically well written, but all the characters are sniveling and unlikable--not in an intentional way. The story can't decide between sentimental and cynical. It only found its middle ground in brief fleeting moments at the end. The characters we were supposed to side with I found totally self important.
December 6, 2017
Onvan : Love is a Canoe - Nevisande : Ben Schrank - ISBN : 374192499 - ISBN13 : 9780374192495 - Dar 342 Safhe - Saal e Chap : 2013
January 16, 2013
If the course of love ran smoothly, we'd have far fewer books, movies, songs, magazines, and plays, don't you think? Ben Schrank's new novel, Love is a Canoe, looks at the chaos of love and how sometimes trying to help it isn't the best thing.
Peter Herman watched his parents' marriage disintegrate and saw how that affected his mother. As a 12-year-old, he spent a summer with his grandparents, a couple truly in love, and he shared the lessons he learned in a self-help book of sorts, Marriage is a Canoe. The book became legendary, with many people commenting how it helped them through the years, although it also became the target of many cynics.
To celebrate the book's 50th anniversary, Stella Petrovic, an ambitious young editor at Peter's publisher, decides to reignite excitement by holding a contest asking married couples in trouble to share their stories. One lucky couple will spend the weekend with Peter in the picturesque town he's lived in for years, with the hopes that he can help mend their marriage. But what Stella doesn't realize is that Peter's intentions aren't quite as clear as he pretends they are, and she also doesn't recognize the reasons for all of the pressure her boss, Helena, is putting on her to ensure the contest succeeds.
Emily Babson and Eli Correlli, the winners of the contest, are struggling with feelings of resentment, betrayal, inferiority, hurt, and, above all, the desire to keep their marriage going. Emily grew up with Marriage is a Canoe as a touchstone in her life, one of the things that helped get her through her own parents' divorce. So she sees this opportunity to meet with Peter as the magic elixir that will put her life back on the right path.
The trouble is, Peter didn't always follow the lessons of his own book. His 40-plus-year marriage to Lisa, who recently died, wasn't the storybook relationship it should have been. Now dating Maddie, a woman very much in love with Peter and who wants a life with him, Peter isn't quite sure what he wants and what to do. And he can't quite seem to shake the feeling he should have done better.
I really enjoyed this book, which looks at both self-help/motivational books and the world of publishing with a slightly skewed eye. It's a testament to the strength of Schrank's storytelling ability that I was so interested in the story and invested in its resolution despite the fact I found nearly every character in this book unlikeable. (But isn't that like life?) I loved the way he contrasted the idyllic relationship of Peter's grandparents that he outlined in his book with the cold realities of love and marriage.
This was a tremendously engaging, well-written book about relationships, about knowing, understanding, and appreciating yourself, and about the need to understand the different between reality and idealism. And you'll probably want to go canoeing afterward.
Peter Herman watched his parents' marriage disintegrate and saw how that affected his mother. As a 12-year-old, he spent a summer with his grandparents, a couple truly in love, and he shared the lessons he learned in a self-help book of sorts, Marriage is a Canoe. The book became legendary, with many people commenting how it helped them through the years, although it also became the target of many cynics.
To celebrate the book's 50th anniversary, Stella Petrovic, an ambitious young editor at Peter's publisher, decides to reignite excitement by holding a contest asking married couples in trouble to share their stories. One lucky couple will spend the weekend with Peter in the picturesque town he's lived in for years, with the hopes that he can help mend their marriage. But what Stella doesn't realize is that Peter's intentions aren't quite as clear as he pretends they are, and she also doesn't recognize the reasons for all of the pressure her boss, Helena, is putting on her to ensure the contest succeeds.
Emily Babson and Eli Correlli, the winners of the contest, are struggling with feelings of resentment, betrayal, inferiority, hurt, and, above all, the desire to keep their marriage going. Emily grew up with Marriage is a Canoe as a touchstone in her life, one of the things that helped get her through her own parents' divorce. So she sees this opportunity to meet with Peter as the magic elixir that will put her life back on the right path.
The trouble is, Peter didn't always follow the lessons of his own book. His 40-plus-year marriage to Lisa, who recently died, wasn't the storybook relationship it should have been. Now dating Maddie, a woman very much in love with Peter and who wants a life with him, Peter isn't quite sure what he wants and what to do. And he can't quite seem to shake the feeling he should have done better.
I really enjoyed this book, which looks at both self-help/motivational books and the world of publishing with a slightly skewed eye. It's a testament to the strength of Schrank's storytelling ability that I was so interested in the story and invested in its resolution despite the fact I found nearly every character in this book unlikeable. (But isn't that like life?) I loved the way he contrasted the idyllic relationship of Peter's grandparents that he outlined in his book with the cold realities of love and marriage.
This was a tremendously engaging, well-written book about relationships, about knowing, understanding, and appreciating yourself, and about the need to understand the different between reality and idealism. And you'll probably want to go canoeing afterward.
January 13, 2013
I haven't ever found a book whose dialogue felt so authentic and utterly real to me. This is a moving portrayal of the human condition, love, relationships, and ties in to contemporary society's dependency on self-help books for solace and guidance. Once we see that the creator of a self-help book is himself completely human, it changes our perception of the role of self-help books. In a city where so much is fleeting - emotions, jobs, situations, relationships - Ben Schrank takes us to a place with a couple who we can all see so much of ourselves in. When do we decide what is for us and what is for our partner? How do we know how much of ourselves to give up and at what point we must decide to stop changing the other? At what point must we become more than what we are?
His portrait of a marriage, from Eli and Emily's dialogue to their most intimate moments and to their utter demise, is something that both excites and frightens me. If modern marriage could be like a canoe, would we all float?
Highly recommended, especially to those in publishing, who will find much of themselves in Stella's eagerness to see the contest succeed while at the same time realizing that we, as publishers, sometimes must look forward instead of backwards to find true success.
His portrait of a marriage, from Eli and Emily's dialogue to their most intimate moments and to their utter demise, is something that both excites and frightens me. If modern marriage could be like a canoe, would we all float?
Highly recommended, especially to those in publishing, who will find much of themselves in Stella's eagerness to see the contest succeed while at the same time realizing that we, as publishers, sometimes must look forward instead of backwards to find true success.
March 12, 2013
I really liked it. This sounds terrible, but I was really impressed by how well the author captured the women characters' voices. Had I not known who wrote it, I would have guessed a woman.
I love the idea of an old-fashioned self-help book causing such a ripple in the publishing industry and to the people in the story.
I love the idea of an old-fashioned self-help book causing such a ripple in the publishing industry and to the people in the story.
February 6, 2013
With great relief, I'm giving up on this book. It's not terrible, but it's making me miserable, and I'm getting nothing out of it.
January 13, 2023
i enjoyed some of the sentiment within, but the ending felt kind of drawn back together like a disorganized medley of strings being pulled taught into a knot. it "ended", but it felt mildly confusing how it all came together.
June 5, 2017
I really enjoyed this book. The structure is a very clever, and the characters so well drawn, I felt the people in my own life come into sharper view. This book is quiet, powerful, and beautifully written.
January 23, 2013
I have read a few books lately whose topic is that marriage is not what it seems. Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl shows us the remnants of a bad marriage through the unreliable eyes of both spouses. Chris Pavone's The Expats uses the spy game as a metaphor for how little we really know how our own spouse.
Ben Schrank's novel Love Is a Canoe has a different take. Peter Herman wrote a hugely successful self-help book titled Love Is a Canoe, filled with the wisdom his loving grandparents shared with him as a teen. They taught him the importance of being respectful, treating the person you love with kindness, and many other bromides.
Peter fell in love with a young girl one summer when he was with his grandparents, and following his grandparents' advice, he pursued this girl and eventually married her. They bought an inn and restaurant in upstate New York and lived a happy life.
His wife fell ill and died, and now Peter is dating someone. He hasn't written anything else, and his publishing company has reissued his book many times, still selling a few copies here and there.
Stella is a young editor at the publishing house trying to move up the ladder. She comes up with an idea for a contest where couples would write in asking for marital advice. The winner would spend the day with Peter, stay at his inn and get some helpful guidance from him.
There were a few problems: Peter has had little contact with his publisher over the years, and they had to find just the right couple. Only one couple fits the bill- Emily and Eli. They have been happily married, until Eli cheated on Emily with a work colleague. Will Peter be able to help them? Stella's career depends on it.
There is a lot of inside stuff about working at a publishing house. The woman who is running the company is feared by all, and she was the editor on Peter's book. Schrank works for Penguin publishing and he shows us the pitch meetings, the jockeying for position, and the day-to-day inner workings. It is great fun to read, and this was my favorite part of the book.
This book surprised me with where it was going, and I truly like that in a novel. Taking that ride and not knowing where we'd end up was exciting. People are not necessarily who we have been led to believe, and things are not as they always appear.
The characters are well-drawn, although I thought people were too hard on Stella, ascribing character flaws to her that I do not believe she had. Schrank juggled the various storylines- Peter, Stella at the publishing house and Emily and Eli's marriage- so well that each one of these stories could have made for an interesting book. He brings them together skillfully.
In the end, my general feelings about self-help books were vindicated, but I'm not going to tell you what they are for that would ruin the ending of this wonderful book.
Ben Schrank's novel Love Is a Canoe has a different take. Peter Herman wrote a hugely successful self-help book titled Love Is a Canoe, filled with the wisdom his loving grandparents shared with him as a teen. They taught him the importance of being respectful, treating the person you love with kindness, and many other bromides.
Peter fell in love with a young girl one summer when he was with his grandparents, and following his grandparents' advice, he pursued this girl and eventually married her. They bought an inn and restaurant in upstate New York and lived a happy life.
His wife fell ill and died, and now Peter is dating someone. He hasn't written anything else, and his publishing company has reissued his book many times, still selling a few copies here and there.
Stella is a young editor at the publishing house trying to move up the ladder. She comes up with an idea for a contest where couples would write in asking for marital advice. The winner would spend the day with Peter, stay at his inn and get some helpful guidance from him.
There were a few problems: Peter has had little contact with his publisher over the years, and they had to find just the right couple. Only one couple fits the bill- Emily and Eli. They have been happily married, until Eli cheated on Emily with a work colleague. Will Peter be able to help them? Stella's career depends on it.
There is a lot of inside stuff about working at a publishing house. The woman who is running the company is feared by all, and she was the editor on Peter's book. Schrank works for Penguin publishing and he shows us the pitch meetings, the jockeying for position, and the day-to-day inner workings. It is great fun to read, and this was my favorite part of the book.
This book surprised me with where it was going, and I truly like that in a novel. Taking that ride and not knowing where we'd end up was exciting. People are not necessarily who we have been led to believe, and things are not as they always appear.
The characters are well-drawn, although I thought people were too hard on Stella, ascribing character flaws to her that I do not believe she had. Schrank juggled the various storylines- Peter, Stella at the publishing house and Emily and Eli's marriage- so well that each one of these stories could have made for an interesting book. He brings them together skillfully.
In the end, my general feelings about self-help books were vindicated, but I'm not going to tell you what they are for that would ruin the ending of this wonderful book.
January 8, 2013
This book follows author Peter Herman who published one, one hit wonder a half century earlier. It’s a cutesy book called Marriage is a canoe and talks about a summer he spent with his grandparents and the lessons he learnt from them about love and marriage. Excerpts of this are throughout the book and break the present time story nicely.
The publishers decide to do a new edition and run a competition. The winners, Eli and Emily get to spend the weekend with Peter who is now widowed and ambivalent about his relationship with a woman who wants him to move states to be closer to her daughter.
Schrank brings alive his characters, who are all real and flawed and want to live happily ever after but don’t seem to have the right ingredients in their relationship or personality to do so. Having been a marriage counsellor I cringed at the thought that the publisher and author thought he could effortlessly do this job with some home spun old fashioned wisdom and was relieved that what actually happens is indeed what may well have!
The biggest criticism of the book is that the first third is far too slow. Many people may have given up before the pace picks up and becomes well-paced and interesting. The ending has two components one of which is more realistic than the other but is ultimately satisfying. Some of the old fashioned advice isn’t so bad and worth the read too.
May 9, 2016
Interesting premise, but poor execution. Some guy writes a anecdotal self help book about relationships in the 70s and it becomes a cult classic. To revamp sales 40 years later, the publishing house rereleases it with a contest built in where a lucky couple gets to meet the author and get free relationship advice. Hijinx ensue. Look, I'll be the first person to say that the critique of a book as being "unrealistic" is a total waste of time. It's fiction! There are no rules. However, I found the characters in this book to be super uneven and yes, I'll say it, UNREALISTIC. I tend to like evil, self absorbed people. They are fun to read about! But these particular characters were just painted so poorly. Even miserable people have redeeming qualities. These people did not. I kept reading and reading assuming it would get better and then suddenly I was at page 200 and couldn't NOT finish it. I have literally no idea why that stupid Emily(ug, tarnishing my name!) got so upset with Stella and blamed her failed marriage on her? That made zero sense to me at all. And the ending with Peter and the lunatic book editor lady? WHAT THE HELL?
October 6, 2012
I fell in love with this book immediately. Alternating viewpoints, Schrank tells the story of a young married couple who is matched, via an editor's contest idea, with the author of a classic book on love and marriage. I so wanted this young couple to succeed, and from the snippets the reader is given from that classic book, I felt certain its author was the right person to do it. I enjoyed the writing, the language was sharp and to-the-point. The question of why each of the involved parties wants this experiment to work kept me reading. My disappointment was that I ended up not liking some of the characters very much, and by the end, I wasn't rooting for them as much as I was in the beginning.
August 9, 2013
How much did I hate this book? Lots. I'm surprised that I kept listening to it, but it apparently did not annoy me enough to shut it off. I can only surmise the author REALLY hates publishers, agents, publicists etc. I found most of the characters unsympathetic and annoying. The message of the book also seems pretty cynical and negative. It's not exactly a feel good read or even a decent message about marriage. Between the "Peter Pan" in his sixties how-can-you-resist-my-boyish-charm author of cloying self-help and the contest winner mis-placing blame, I was thoroughly disgusted by his characters. If you are looking for something sweet after reading the title. look elsewhere.
January 10, 2013
Peter Herman is just a regular joe, who is thrown into fame and fortune after writing a novel that puts him on the map. Peter and his wife live a peaceful and quiet existence in New York until his wife passes away suddenly.
He tries to console himself with another woman, but questions himself about happiness after all that has happened. Then one day out of the blue he receives a call from an editor who wants to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his book and a contest for married couples. This book is a funny endearing story about love and life.
He tries to console himself with another woman, but questions himself about happiness after all that has happened. Then one day out of the blue he receives a call from an editor who wants to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his book and a contest for married couples. This book is a funny endearing story about love and life.
January 25, 2013
This satire of romance, "how to" books and the publishing world is a terrific read. The satire is simultaneously biting and kind. The characters are exquisitely drawn- "types" but not "stereotypes." It is cutting and very smart without being cynical. I wish I could give 4.5 stars. It didn't get 5 because the very last page is just a tad too sweet and pat. But the reading experience is near perfection- especially in the second half of the book. If you can't get into it give it 50 pages. It grows on you.
February 3, 2013
I loved the unique mix of characters in this novel, which is so fresh and real. And in fact, the novel leaves you with a belief in the real -- honest love, that is -- and the need to keep searching until you find it. Ben Schrank has written a book that is romantic without being schmaltzy - a thinking person's pleasure read.
October 15, 2012
I can't put this book down. In fact, I only put it down just now to make sure other people in the world are also reading it (if they can this early). I keep flagging the trenchant one-liners about how love is indeed like a canoe so that I don't mess things up with my current boyfriend - like, ever.
June 20, 2013
I took this book on a trip with me and I regretted that it was the only thing I had to read. The story lines are trite and the writing is stilted and awkward. I fully agree with Goodreads review by hirtho—go look at it.
February 16, 2013
This book was a disappointment. Dialogue implausible. Characters weakly developed. Reading this book became a bit of a chore.
April 11, 2018
As I read this book, I kept having to look at the reviews to make sure I had seen them correctly. A lot of people thought this book was fantastic, and I'm not really sure why. The characters were awful. The plot, while interesting in theory, ended up being very cliche. And Schrank, who apparently is a publisher himself, writes as if his audience are English Language Learners. Put all of this together and Love is a Canoe makes for a pretty irritating book...and yet I finished it without throwing it across the room. At least there's that.
July 26, 2018
I felt the story was trite, with unlikable characters. Cool Title though.
August 30, 2018
quirky read
June 30, 2024
i really wish i could give this a 2.5. dragged on a little bit at times but it did have some good plot twists and was interesting
November 5, 2022
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