This Book Will Save Your Life
Registered by veleta of Willesden, Greater London United Kingdom on 6/2/2018
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The book I have has six doughnuts of different flavours on its cover.
Richard Novak is a divorced man who is not even trying to come back in the dating game. He is a wealthy man and almost never leaves his home, a mansion in the Hollywood hills in LA. His only point of contact is a nice housekeeper, Cecilia, whom he treats as a relative and an annoying nutritionist whose name I can't remember, who forbids him to eat anything.
But everything is going to change when he feels like he is having a heart attack. From the beginning I have a feeling that it is psychosomatic, a panic attack, but he is taken care of as his health insurance covers everything. The following day, on his way home, he enters a bakery and starts speaking to Annhil, the owner and manager, an inmigrant. Quite soon they become friends.
These are not the only changes - after years of being stranded, Richard offers his son Ben, now a teenager, the opportunity of spending his last summer before university with him, right after travelling around the USA with best mate Bath. Another change happens when he speaks to a middle-aged lady who is crying on her own at the supermarket. She is a burnt-out married woman, too tame to put a stop to her husband and two son's unappreciative behaviour. But before this, there is an incident with a horse, and after that, there is an incident with a kidnapped lady. I don't want to spoil the course of events and what happens.
There are loads ofstuff happening all the time. The dialogue is fluid but eccentric, even when Richard goes to a silence retreat. An ensemble novel with loads of happenstance, life and good humour. Richard is unrealistically heroic and generous, but all in all, I liked it, although my favourite character was Ben.
All in all, I strongly recommend this book. It's not Laugh-Out-Loud comedy, it's more whimsical and amusing. There are messy stories, messy people, but good-hearted feelings all in all.
Ah, and the novel follows USA's orthographical conventions, so doughnut is written "donut" all the time.
Richard Novak is a divorced man who is not even trying to come back in the dating game. He is a wealthy man and almost never leaves his home, a mansion in the Hollywood hills in LA. His only point of contact is a nice housekeeper, Cecilia, whom he treats as a relative and an annoying nutritionist whose name I can't remember, who forbids him to eat anything.
But everything is going to change when he feels like he is having a heart attack. From the beginning I have a feeling that it is psychosomatic, a panic attack, but he is taken care of as his health insurance covers everything. The following day, on his way home, he enters a bakery and starts speaking to Annhil, the owner and manager, an inmigrant. Quite soon they become friends.
These are not the only changes - after years of being stranded, Richard offers his son Ben, now a teenager, the opportunity of spending his last summer before university with him, right after travelling around the USA with best mate Bath. Another change happens when he speaks to a middle-aged lady who is crying on her own at the supermarket. She is a burnt-out married woman, too tame to put a stop to her husband and two son's unappreciative behaviour. But before this, there is an incident with a horse, and after that, there is an incident with a kidnapped lady. I don't want to spoil the course of events and what happens.
There are loads ofstuff happening all the time. The dialogue is fluid but eccentric, even when Richard goes to a silence retreat. An ensemble novel with loads of happenstance, life and good humour. Richard is unrealistically heroic and generous, but all in all, I liked it, although my favourite character was Ben.
All in all, I strongly recommend this book. It's not Laugh-Out-Loud comedy, it's more whimsical and amusing. There are messy stories, messy people, but good-hearted feelings all in all.
Ah, and the novel follows USA's orthographical conventions, so doughnut is written "donut" all the time.
Journal Entry 2 by veleta at == Buses, Taxis, Tube, Trains 🚌 🚖 🚆 🚂 in Walthamstow, Greater London United Kingdom on Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Released 5 yrs ago (9/11/2018 UTC) at == Buses, Taxis, Tube, Trains 🚌 🚖 🚆 🚂 in Walthamstow, Greater London United Kingdom
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