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Loading... Benny and Shrimp (2008)by Katarina Mazetti
None. My blog post about this book is at this link. (  ) SuziQoregon | Mar 31, 2013 |  Nice but not that great. (  ) dupontmorand | Mar 17, 2012 | Désirée se rend régulièrement sur la tombe de son mari, qui a eu le mauvais goût de mourir trop jeune. Bibliothécaire et citadine, elle vit dans un appartement tout blanc, très tendance, rempli de livres. Au cimetière, elle croise souvent le mec de la tombe d'à côté, dont l'apparence l'agace autant que le tape-à-l'œil de la stèle qu'il fleurit assidûment. Depuis le décès de sa mère, Benny vit seul à la ferme familiale avec ses vingt-quatre vaches laitières. Il s'en sort comme il peut, avec son bon sens paysan et une sacrée dose d'autodérision. Chaque fois qu'il la rencontre, il est exaspéré par sa voisine de cimetière, son bonnet de feutre et son petit carnet de poésie. Un jour pourtant, un sourire éclate simultanément sur leurs lèvres et ils en restent tous deux éblouis... C'est le début d'une passion dévorante. C'est avec un romantisme ébouriffant et un humour décapant que ce roman d'amour tendre et débridé pose la très sérieuse question du choc des cultures. PierreYvesMERCIER | Feb 19, 2012 | I'm kind of bummed that I didn't enjoy this book as much as I expected to when I first read about it. It's rarely possible for people to change, yet Benny and Shrimp both expect massive change out of the other. Both these characters bugged me, and even though my life is just like Shrimp's, I felt bad for the way she treated Benny. For some reason I'm giving him more of a pass for his backward ways, but those ways are what he knows. I'm curious about the sequel not yet in English because the ending has left me wondering what happened. celiafrances | Dec 5, 2011 | It started in a cemetery, where they begrudginly share a bench. "Shrimp", the childless young widow and librarian with a sharp intellect and a home so tidy that her jam jars are in alphsbetical order, meets Benny, the gentle, overworked milk farmer who fears becoming the village's Old Bachelor.Both driven by an enormous longing and ticking biological clocks, thy can't escape the powerful attraction between them. (  )  marient | Nov 14, 2010 | no reviews | add a review
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ROMANTIC FICTION. Why is it so impossible to get a relationship to work between two mature single people, driven by an enormous longing and loudly ticking biological clocks? Especially when they are struck by a totally unexpected passion when they first meet. In alternate chapters, Benny and 'Shrimp' tell the story of a love that started by mistake in a village cemetery, a love that should not really be as complicated as it seems. She is a childless young widow with a sharp intellect and a tidy home. He is a gentle, overworked milk farmer, a reluctant loner, who fears becoming the village's Old Bachelor. The attraction between them is powerful. But how will she learn to accept that he falls asleep at the opera and has a house full of his mother's embroidered wall hangings, and how could he ever feel at home in her minimalist apartment, bare as a dentist's waiting room? An unexpected love affair, and the heartbreaking inevitability with which life tends to get in the way.… (more)
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