This was a lovely book to savour -- the chapters are short enough to read quickly and then go off and do something else if necessary.
I started this earlier this week and grabbed a few minutes here to read and loved how each chapter unfolded, giving the reader more insight into the cast of characters in this book. I particularly enjoyed Chloe and Oscar's story. This book is full of ups and downs and captures life and love so well.
I started this earlier this week and grabbed a few minutes here to read and loved how each chapter unfolded, giving the reader more insight into the cast of characters in this book. I particularly enjoyed Chloe and Oscar's story. This book is full of ups and downs and captures life and love so well.
Helpful Score: 3
Lots of interesting and unusual love themes in this one; made for a very interesting and lively book club discussion.
Helpful Score: 2
A nice book. Was a little confusing to me in the beginning. I ended up liking the book pretty well. I even cried at one point. I wouldn't call this an easy ready, but I think it is worth trying.
Helpful Score: 2
What a lovely book! This was an easy quick read; so sad and funny!
Helpful Score: 1
This novel is a banquet for the soul. Many wonderful characters which intersect...unexpected is always upon us.
Helpful Score: 1
This is a good book with quirky characters and a contemporary sense of what a community is. Baxter has a good sense of humor, too. I enjoyed the book.
Helpful Score: 1
It takes awhile to get into this one, but a good read once you understand the structure of the book. It goes back and forth between the stories of several different people, all of whom intersect at points.
Helpful Score: 1
This author has a different approach to telling a story, which made it interesting to read.
Helpful Score: 1
A great book that tells the stories of many different people in a small community wrapping a tale of love, passion, and angst. It is both heartwarming and bittersweet.
The Feast of Love shows us the hard won generosity of spirit that day to day dealings with other human beings require.
Well written and heart-felt.
Beautiful language and intriguing plot make this an interesting read. A good book club selection.
Very funny. A good, quick read.
In a re-imagined Midsummer Night's Dream, men and women speak of and desire their ideal mates; parents seek out their lost children; adult children try to come to terms with their own parents and, in some cases, find new ones." "In vignettes both comic and sexy, the owner of a coffee shop recalls the day his first wife seemed to achieve a moment of simple perfection, while she remembers the women's softball game during which she was stricken by the beauty of the shortstop. A young couple spends hours at the coffee shop fueling the idea of their fierce love. A professor of philosophy, stopping by for a cup of coffee, makes a valiant attempt to explain what he knows to be the inexplicable workings of the human heart.
The story begins with a shadowy character named "Charlie Baxter" who suffers from insomnia and lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He's a story-collector, and at the beginning of the novel he's collecting stories about love. These stories gradually take over, and the story-collector disappears, as he should.
I didn't love this book but many people do. Strong characters and reflections of life as it truly is.
This was a National Book award finalist.
National Book Award finalist and New York Times notable book. Odd tale about love, generosity of spirt, and ordinary people.
Another book where each chapter is told by someone else in the first person. Trying to figure out which character is speaking can be a chore. The central character seems to be Bradley. All the other characters all seem to have some tie to him. I understood the book a little because there was a movie based on this book, I am not that interested in reading anything else by him.
