Love in the Present Tense
by Catherine Ryan Hyde, Catherine Ryan Hyde | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 9780552773645 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 9780552773645 Global Overview for this book
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Product Description
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Mitch is a 25-year-old with commitment issues. Leonard is a five-year-old kid with asthma and vision problems, who captivates everyone he meets. Pearl is Leonard's teenage mother, who's trying to hide a violent secret from her past. Life has given Pearl every reason to mistrust people, but circumstances force her to trust her neighbour, Mitch. Then one day, with a heart full of agony, Pearl drops Leonard off with Mitch and never returns. Pearl, Leonard and Mitch each have a story to tell and as their lives unfold, profound questions arise about the nature of love and family. How do you go on loving someone who isn't there? With Leonard's absolute conviction in 'forever love' always present, Leonard and Mitch grow up side by side and piece together the layered truths and fictions of their almost magical lives. The answers are heartbreaking, but ultimately triumphant.
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Mitch is a 25-year-old with commitment issues. Leonard is a five-year-old kid with asthma and vision problems, who captivates everyone he meets. Pearl is Leonard's teenage mother, who's trying to hide a violent secret from her past. Life has given Pearl every reason to mistrust people, but circumstances force her to trust her neighbour, Mitch. Then one day, with a heart full of agony, Pearl drops Leonard off with Mitch and never returns. Pearl, Leonard and Mitch each have a story to tell and as their lives unfold, profound questions arise about the nature of love and family. How do you go on loving someone who isn't there? With Leonard's absolute conviction in 'forever love' always present, Leonard and Mitch grow up side by side and piece together the layered truths and fictions of their almost magical lives. The answers are heartbreaking, but ultimately triumphant.
On my reading list due to being a Richard and Judy recommended read. According to the cover it is the magical story of a young boy’s search for his mother.
I have not read a book I have been so disappointed in for a long time finding it a thoroughly boring and disjointed story of unconditional love.
In theory it sounded Ok, three protagonists Leonard, the little boy deserted by his mother at the age of five. Pearl his very young teenage mother who leaves him a neighbour’s care one day and never returns, finally Mitch the neighbour. The chapters are narrated by each of the three and right from the very first one I had my doubts, finding it difficult to relate to the characters or the situation. I kept reading as far as page 120 in the hope it would start to make sense. It didn’t and I have so many other books waiting to be read that I finally decided it was a waste of time. I am sorry because I rarely give up on a book. I have read some other reviews to see if I was just missing the point and it appears I must have been Somehow I feel let down by this one but I appear to be very much in the minority!
I am going to send this to a BC friend who has the title on her wishlist and am hoping she enjoys it more than I did!
I have not read a book I have been so disappointed in for a long time finding it a thoroughly boring and disjointed story of unconditional love.
In theory it sounded Ok, three protagonists Leonard, the little boy deserted by his mother at the age of five. Pearl his very young teenage mother who leaves him a neighbour’s care one day and never returns, finally Mitch the neighbour. The chapters are narrated by each of the three and right from the very first one I had my doubts, finding it difficult to relate to the characters or the situation. I kept reading as far as page 120 in the hope it would start to make sense. It didn’t and I have so many other books waiting to be read that I finally decided it was a waste of time. I am sorry because I rarely give up on a book. I have read some other reviews to see if I was just missing the point and it appears I must have been Somehow I feel let down by this one but I appear to be very much in the minority!
I am going to send this to a BC friend who has the title on her wishlist and am hoping she enjoys it more than I did!
Journal Entry 3 by LindyLouMac at Wishlist RABCK, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Monday, November 24, 2008
Released 15 yrs ago (11/26/2008 UTC) at Wishlist RABCK, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
Happy reading
LindyLouMac
Happy reading
LindyLouMac
A nice semi-surprise on the doormat waiting for me after a week away.
Hmmm - the journal entry and postcard has put me off a bit but I will put in the suitcase for reading on a week away with work.
Hmmm - the journal entry and postcard has put me off a bit but I will put in the suitcase for reading on a week away with work.
Passed to me by beckydore for releasing purposes.
Journal Entry 6 by Katisha50 at Moseley Village - Mozfest Stall in Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Thursday, July 5, 2012
Released 11 yrs ago (7/7/2012 UTC) at Moseley Village - Mozfest Stall in Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
This book will released on the usual Bookcrossers stall by the traffic lights.
If you have picked up this book, thank you for visiting the website. Please take a moment to let us know you have the book - then everyone who has had it previously will know where it is! Then post a review when you've read it, and pass it on to someone else when you've finished it. If you join BookCrossing, you, too, can see where it goes.
This book has been released for the Never Judge A Book By Its Cover release challenge 2012, Week 27 (2nd quarter re-do. Week 19, author name begins with C/D/M).
If you have picked up this book, thank you for visiting the website. Please take a moment to let us know you have the book - then everyone who has had it previously will know where it is! Then post a review when you've read it, and pass it on to someone else when you've finished it. If you join BookCrossing, you, too, can see where it goes.
This book has been released for the Never Judge A Book By Its Cover release challenge 2012, Week 27 (2nd quarter re-do. Week 19, author name begins with C/D/M).
Journal Entry 7 by Katisha50 at Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Thursday, August 15, 2013
Not taken from the stall, so came home with me pending another journal entry.
Journal Entry 8 by Katisha50 at Urban Coffee Company, Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Thursday, August 15, 2013
Released 10 yrs ago (8/15/2013 UTC) at Urban Coffee Company, Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
On the bookshelf opposite the counter.
Welcome to Bookcrossing! You are about to lose a whole chunk of your life, but I assure you it will be worthwhile. Do let us know your thought about this book, and your plans for its next move.
Welcome to Bookcrossing! You are about to lose a whole chunk of your life, but I assure you it will be worthwhile. Do let us know your thought about this book, and your plans for its next move.
Journal Entry 9 by UrbanCoffeeJQ at Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Thursday, August 15, 2013
Thank you for visiting the coffee shop and picking up this book. Hope you will come back to tell us what you thought of it, and what your future plans for it are.
Journal Entry 10 by UrbanCoffeeJQ at Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Saturday, March 1, 2014
This book is no longer on the shelf here, so marked as Travelling pending a new journal entry.