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 Chasing Windmills - Catherine Ryan Hyde
 Chasing Windmills - Catherine Ryan Hyde ... Flying Dolphin PressNewest Review: ... Richard and Judy Book Club. I will be looking for it now, however, as I really enjoyed this book and I am always happy to try ... more ... another book when I have enjoyed one of the authors offerings.
The book takes the eternal love story (boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back), runs it through the filter of Romeo and Juliet, in turn filters that through West Side Story (complete with a New York location) and then updates the whole thing from the 50's into the current decade.
Teenager Sebastian has been cut off from the world by a domineering father who try's to teach him that people are intrinsically flawed and that looking for love or...more |
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Chasing Windmills - Catherine Ryan Hyde: Chasing windmills - worth pursuing? (507 words)
by - written on 24/04/09 (Very useful, 112 readings)
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The cover of this paperback edition is emblazoned 'The New Novel from the bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club author'. Personally, that just tells me that the author may have a popular and fairly accessible style and the book is likely to be modern fiction. I do know a lot of people who would be put off by the R&J reference, people who seem to conflate 'popular' with 'trash'. If they reached that conclusion and did not read 'Chasing Windmills' they would miss out on an enjoyable and engaging read. I have not read 'Love in the Present Tense', an earlier book by this author and one of the books selected for the Richard and Judy Book ... Read the complete review
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