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Loading... The Love Letter (original 1995; edition 2007)by Cathleen Schine (Author)
Work detailsThe Love Letter by Cathleen Schine (1995)
None.  qquiet | Apr 2, 2013 |  While divorcee Helen's daughter is away at summer camp she finds a mysterious love letter in her bookshop, and ends up having an affair with one of her casual summer workers. Good, but not as likeable as other things by her I've read. (  ) annesadleir | Aug 14, 2011 | Interesting, but not as good as her other works. Story of a newly divorced woman finding her way in a town, finding friends, love interest, relationship with her daughters. Keep reading this author nonetheless. (  ) kath8899 | Aug 13, 2011 | It's been about 10 years, so about all I remember about this book is that I really enjoyed it. More specifically, it's the only book to ever make me miss my stop while reading on the bus. And I think that happened at least twice. I also remember embarrassing myself by laughing a couple times while reading it on the bus. It was the second of three books I've read by Schine. I really need to get to the others. Sadly, I loaned this one out years ago and never got it back. Otherwise, I'd probably read it again. (  ) kristenn | Jan 10, 2010 | I can't tell you how many times I've read this book (I tend to re-read it just before Valentine's Day every year)! The premise is a 40 something woman who owns a bookstore finding an anonymous love letter and how it changes everything about her within one summer. Not only is it a love story -- you have to listen to how Schine describes things! It's almost tangible -- but this book inspires me to do something I only dream about: Open my own bookstore. In a word, THE LOVE LETTER is delicious. ( ) weirdlibrarian | Jul 8, 2009 | no reviews | add a review
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Johnny is alternately fascinated and irritated by his boss, who relies on unabashed, highly skilled flirting as her fail-safe mechanism for closing a sale. We too are drawn in by Helen's seductive charm and savvy competency, so much so that we are as genuinely surprised as she is when her idle wonderings about Johnny become something more. What could this literary, lovely face that sells a thousand books see in a college boy, 22 years her junior?
Except for the duo's first embrace--precipitated by Helen's accidental hosing down of the hunky, shirtless undergrad--The Love Letter stays comfortably on this side of heaving-bosom romance novel. Humor reigns supreme here, as well as a warm nostalgia and thoughtful reflection on good old-fashioned letter writing: "Letters are so indiscreet, she thought. They're so exposed, so vulnerable, so naked--they're even worse than snapshots." Cathleen Schine's engaging fourth novel may even incite a few readers to forgo e-mail for the pleasant scrape of ink across paper. --Brangien Davis
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Downs: the characters are not that lovable. I wasn't that awed with the heroine, though I liked the hero a bit because he was 'different from other 20-year olds'. But this is not a romance book. Not even in a Nicholas Sparks way. Which is a pity, because I was looking for a romance at the time I was reading this, and it let me down. (