Saturday, February 13, 2010
At A Loss For Words for a post-romantic Valentine's Day
I am a fan of anything written by the Canadian author Diane Schoemperlen. The first book I read by Diane was, Our Lady of the Lost and Found. It was such a phenomenal read that I went online to find more of her books. So far I've managed to read most of what she has written. At A Loss For Words,a post-romantic novel was written in 2008 and manages to capture that desperate essence of wanting to be in love with someone so badly that you are willing to believe anything that remotely reinforces that this is the greatest romance of your life even when subconsciously you know it isn't. It is brilliantly written and enfolds you in the obsesessive nature of a love gone wrong. Diane Schoemperlen represents for me the "everywoman" effect. A great read for such a short novel. If you are alone on Valentine's Day it's a book you can begin to read in the afternoon and be finished with it by bedtime.
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