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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. If you like pastels, identify with women who have never thought for themselves, can tolerate 40-year olds still crushed by the indifference of their parents and agonizing over every decision, and love "happily ever after," this book may work for you. It does have some interesting drama, and condensed to about 1/4 its size, it would probably even be good reading. (  ) nepejwster | Sep 17, 2008 |  Great beach read (exactly where I read it). Quaint location, quaint characters. I thought that the murder mystery was an unnecessery addition to the novel. The lobstermen and fishing village backdrop was quite interesting and could have been used to develop the main, as well as the secondary, characters better. All in all the book is an easy quick read with an ending that is palatable. The book does it's job. (  ) JenJambon | Jun 27, 2008 | You know when you have read a book and you keep it for always, tuck away on a shelf and everytime you touch that book, memories of passion come back to you, that is an indication of a great book that made a difference in your life...Barbara Delinsky has a way of putting in writting what I think. The Summer I Dared says it all. Just dare something, be unreasonable and do it. An easy reading book, one to pass on from dear friend to dear friend! (  ) labelleaurore | Mar 4, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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WHAT COMES AFTER THE MOMENT THAT FOREVER CHANGES YOUR LIFE?
This is the question that haunts Julia Bechtel, Noah Prine, and Kim Colella, the only survivors of a terrible boating accident off the coast of Maine that claimed the lives of nine other people.
Julia, a forty-year-old wife and mother, has always taken the path of least resistance. Pigeonholed by her controlling family and increasingly distant husband as "loyal" and "obedient," she realizes in the aftermath of her brush with death that there is more to her -- and to the world around her -- than she ever imagined.
Feeling strangely connected to Noah, the divorced, brooding lobsterman who helped save her life, and to Kim, a twenty-one-year-old whose role in the accident and subsequent muteness are a mystery, Julia begins to explore the unique possibilities offered by the quiet island of Big Sawyer, Maine. Suddenly, things that once seemed critical lose significance, and things that seemed inconsequential take on a whole new importance. With each passing moment, each new discovery, Julia grows more sure that after coming face-to-face with death, she must have more from life.
Resolving to make things right for the future and drawing on an inner strength she never knew she possessed, Julia passionately awakens to a new world, fearlessly embracing uncertainties in a way she couldn't have imagined only a few weeks ago.
Set in a beautifully rendered island off the coast of Maine, where lobstermen leave with the tides each morning to haul and reset their traps, and neighbors gather each night to feast on the catch of the day, Barbara Delinsky's The Summer I Dared is a deeply moving story of the risky but rewarding search for self, a story of survival, and of the irrepressible ability of the human spirit to rebound from disaster and to create life anew.
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