Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Read a Book When It's Raining

With my great desire to go to Europe, I have been exploring materials that will give ideas what to expect and see  there. Didn't I tell you that I am excited? HAHAHA here. As I search a new book to read, my cousin offered me something interesting and something new. I don't really read romanticized love stories but this book portrays her vision of what Europe is like.  Am gonna try this I should say. This is Sam Sotto's Before Ever After.

To give you glimpse what this is all about, visit Sam's website and read her little introduction as well. Sam herself is interesting and pretty. Hehe :) Hopefully this one will be posted on my list.

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A modern fairy tale about true love, happy endings, new beginnings, and everything in between. Available as a hardcover and eBook August 2011.

Three years after her husband Max’s death, Shelley feels no more adjusted to being a widow than she did that first terrible day. That is, until the doorbell rings. Standing on her front step is a young man who looks so much like Max–same smile, same eyes, same age, same adorable bump in his nose–he could be Max’s long-lost relation. He introduces himself as Paolo, an Italian editor of American coffee table books, and shows Shelley some childhood photos. Paolo tells her that the man in the photos, the bearded man who Paolo says is his grandfather though he never seems to age, is Max. Her Max. And he is alive and well.

As outrageous as Paolo’s claims seem–how could her husband be alive? And if he is, why hasn’t he looked her up? – Shelley desperately wants to know the truth. She and Paolo jet across the globe to track Max down–if it is really Max– and along the way, Shelley recounts the European package tour where they had met. As she relives Max’s stories of bloody Parisian barricades,medieval Austrian kitchens, and buried Roman boathouses, Shelley begins to piece together the story of who her husband was and what these new revelations mean for her “happily ever after.” And as she and Paolo get closer to the truth, Shelley discovers that not all stories end where they are supposed to.

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