Journal Entry 1 by wss4 from Branford, Florida USA on Wednesday, August 24, 2005

FROM THE PUBLISHER
"Rachel Spark is an irreverent, sexually eager, financially unstable thirty-year-old college instructor who moves back home when her mother is diagnosed with terminal breast cancer. As she tries to ease her mother, a perpetually cheerful woman, toward the inevitable, Rachel turns from one man to the next - sometimes comically, sometimes catastrophically - as if her own survival depended upon it." ""If I slept only with men who knew my full name, if I signed up for dance classes, if I ate more fruit - even then there was no guarantee I'd get what I wanted," she thinks. And so she goes off with Johnny, who wears "all silk, black silk pants, a red silk shirt, even a silk band holding his hair in a ponytail." Or with Adam, an old boyfriend who remembers her with a bob she never had and tries to seduce her in his care with dark-tinted windows. Regardless of her unsuitable and unlikely bedmates, Rachel can't distract herself from what she knows about cancer - that it disappears or returns - seemingly with a will of its own. But Rachel's not the only one struggling with the uncertain turns life takes." Ella Bloom, an adult student in Rachel's poetry class, aspires to more than her work at a local family planning clinic. But she spends her nights wondering why her husband kissed one of her colleagues and whether it will lead to a full-fledged affair, and she is also preoccupied with one of her repeat patients, Georgia, a teenager who frequents the clinic and has a story of her own. What they all have in common is their desire for love, despite its many obstacles.

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I won this book in an online sweepstakes. Not my genre and does not look like something I would care to read.

Sending to a member of PBS. I hope that they will make a journal entry when they get it. --8/24/05 

Journal Entry 2 by wss4 at PaperBackSwap.com in Media Mail, PaperBackSwap.com -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, August 24, 2005

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Journal Entry 3 by calvarez4 from Oakland, California USA on Monday, September 26, 2005

I got this book from Paperbackswap.com in early September, and didn't even realize it had a bookcrossing sticker in it til just now! :) I have heard a lot of really positive things about this book from friends, and 1/3 of the way through, it is definitely living up to the hype!

This book will continue its travels soon. 

Journal Entry 4 by calvarez4 at Controlled Release in Assonet, Massachusetts -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, September 28, 2005

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I really enjoyed reading this. After its short stay in California, I am sending it to a member of www.paperbackswap.com, who lives in Assonet, MA. I hope the new reader enjoys it, and passes it along! 

Journal Entry 5 by Wistroll from Centuria, Wisconsin USA on Saturday, November 26, 2005

Received from www.paperbackswap.com. Hoping it won`t be on Mt. TBR too long!