Love in the Middle Ages
The god of love has one year to prove he’s still relevant. The lovers he’s been assigned as his final exam–two yearning, prickly, battle-scarred, independent middle-aged people, Evan and Eve–aren’t exactly making it easy.
Set in Vermont maple syrup country, NYC, and SF, A Godsend, my buddy Dalma Heyn’s “love story for grownups”—wry, hopeful, sexy—is available today in all e-book formats for only 99 cents — the price of a song. Literally*. What have you got to lose? And if you know somebody else who might like it, please pass it on.
A love story for all of us who are no longer kids; who are hopeful even in changing times, and who know that love can happen in an instant . . . at any age.
*Don’t you love it? When someone says, “You can have it for a song,” now we can put a number to that!
Ambiance 
mockturtle said,
February 14, 2012 at 5:10 pm
I don’t know…my kindle is filling up fast. Downloaded Tristram Shandy day before yesterday, haven’t yet read Gogol’s Dead Souls which I downloaded a couple of months ago after reading Dostoevsky’s The Idiot and am reading two economics books and a sailing adventure right now [Lionheart So many books, so little time. ;-) But, for 90 cents, how can I go wrong? I rarely read books written in this century. Or even last century, for that matter….
amba12 said,
February 14, 2012 at 5:25 pm
This one is just fun. It’s light reading, but literate and sophisticated — with a light touch. Often “light” reading is badly written — not this. It’s elegantly funny and touching. It’s also written for an unusual audience — sort of urbane, educated, cultured (a world Jacques carried me well beyond, but I still have a few friends there! :-P). You’ve made me realize I ought to let “the list” (the Desperate Caregivers, active and emeritus) know about this, since so many have Kindles or Nooks now.
mockturtle said,
February 14, 2012 at 5:31 pm
Good idea!
kngfish said,
February 14, 2012 at 8:55 pm
mockturtle, did you enjoy the Idiot? I remember we had a thread about this a while back…. I do love it so!
mockturtle said,
February 14, 2012 at 11:11 pm
Very much! Maybe not as much as The Brothers K. because I enjoyed the characters more in that novel but Dostoevsky does dialog so well [and most of The Idiot is dialog!]. I found several character parallels, like Nastasia being a version of Grushenka, Rogozhin similar to Dmitri and Prince Muyshkin being Alexei [both protagonists terribly pallid compared to the crazy, colorful secondary characters]. And, though I think I know what Dosteovsky was trying to say in both novels, I’m not sure I agree with him. He was clearly a great writer but I have also suspected something sinister in his heroes that he may not even have intended to portray. Ah, but here I go, trying to analyze when, only yesterday, I said I didn’t do that! ;-) Thanks so much, kngfish, for the suggestions. Am looking forward to Gogol soon!
lh said,
February 15, 2012 at 12:01 am
Done.
mockturtle said,
March 1, 2012 at 12:47 pm
To kngfish: Just another comment about The Idiot: The translation available for kindle was probably faithful but lacks the richness of Peavey’s excellent translation of The Brothers Karamazov, which may be one reason I preferred the latter. But I will admit that the bitchery duel between Aglaya and Nastasia in The Idiot is a classic. The fact that they were vying for the affection of the prince [what am I missing here??] seemed unlikely to me. Much more believable, but less brilliant, was the sparring between Grushenka and Katerina [over Dmitri] in The Brothers K.. Again, thank you for the recommendation. God willing, I hope to have the time to read all of Dostoevsky’s novels.