Customer Reviews

Pages for You: A Novel

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3 star:		(3)
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1 star:		(1)

 

 

I loved this book so much, after i read it, i couldnt go into my room without picking it up and flicking through it, catching scattered sentences that threw me once more back into the ever absorbing story. Perhaps its my empathy with the theme, or the ease in which i can relate to the characters and their feelings, but the way the book is written, the development of the central figures as they discover each other captured me totally. The quirky and witty conversations and discussions, as well as the settings and descriptions makes this book much more than a soppy love story. Give this book a read! you wont regret it.

I would have loved to have given this book 5 stars, as it's images lingered and inspired me for days. However, it is not a literary classic in any sense.
That being said, it is a passionate, youthful, nostalgic tale that is inventively and lovingly told. Anyone who has felt the fire of a white-hot intense first love affair (which always go awry) will be transported into the mind and heart of Flannery. You know how delicious every new "first" can be, and these are beautifully captured and explored. You also know, with bittersweet wisdom, that the young woman will ultimately not have a happy ending with her older lover and teacher, despite their wonderfully told passion for each other. Yet knowing this does not take away from the story in any way.
This reads much like a 3 act play, and act 2 is gorgeously erotic without having to resort to any graphic ... descriptions. Refreshing. A lovely tale, worth reading, and re-reading.

I love this book it was a very good I couldn't put it down. Their was some stuff that was like wow you know it was just a great book. I think everyone needs to read this so everyone know what it's like. The characters take you on this ride of emotions and it doesn't stop until the end that's all I have to say. I think if people read this book then they would kinda think before they act I'm not saying anything bad or anything but can we think before we judge thanks.

I couldn't help but enjoy this book immensely, despite its supposed flaws. As a romance novel with an admirable plot, it is quite successful, but as the story of Flannery going through the pains of realizing herself as a lesbian and coming out, it fails. However, I'm not convinced that Brownrigg was attempting to focus on the "coming out" issue anyway. This may or may not really be perceived as a flaw. In our time, it would be silly to think that Flannery's realization wouldn't have a huge impact on her life, and nearly impossible to side-step it, but perhaps Brownrigg wanted her book to focus on the romance instead. It's hard to say what would be preferable. Maybe what might be perceived as Brownrigg's oversight can be the beginning of a change in our culture that would make the realization of homosexuality not so weighty, so writers can concentrate on the relationships, not the tolerance issues.

The writing is intense and vivid, and I felt I could relate to Flannery's frustration immensely. Anyone who has ever appreciated literature, been a confused 17-year-old in college, or fallen in love with an older and more experienced person can relate to the conflicts here. I really feel that it can be a kind of therapy for those who have had the feelings Flannery experiences for an older woman but have never been fortunate (or unfortunate--whatever the case may be) enough to act on them. I think the resolution is satisfying, and the old but ever-important reminder that life goes on is taught well.

I was amazed at the lyricism inthis book. It shook me to my core, and had me copying out passages to read and re-read.

This book took me by the hand and pulled me thoroughly and honestly through first love. I gobbled it up in a few hours, completely enveloped in Flannery and Anne's world. It sat with me for weeks. The storytelling is wonderful. One day I found myself reading it from the end to the beginning and still able to feel the loss, the promise and the enthusiasm.

Pages for you had potential to be a good book. It had a good plot, it had two intresting and developed leads, but it the book could have been so much more. The book also was set up in a funny way, which prevented the book from flowing in the way a novel should. It was an okay read, but if you can avoid spending $10+ on it, do so.

From the first moment I was hooked. How could I not be? We all have, somewhere in our past or present, a love story we keep hidden behind a closed door, the kind of story we just wish we could change the ending.

And when a book is so promising in its first words, itŐs difficult to not anticipate a let down. We can just hope that the story will unfold in front of our eyes, beautiful and inspiring. That we might lose ourselves and our souls in it, that these pages might be the ones we would have liked to write.

And where we might have failed, Sylvia Brownrigg succeeds. We find ourselves breathing in sync to the rythm of the words. The words she chose for us. But maybe whatŐs really amazing is the intimity she manages to create and ultimatly the feelings that emerge as we read.

For all of us who fell in love with someone who was out of reach, for what could have been and what could never be. A beautiful read

I enjoyed reading this book. It is a good book if you want to take a lazy day and get lost in your own little world. We know that the two main characters in this book are female lovers, but never is there a point where the run around screaming "we're lesbians and proud!" It is a well written book. It isn't written to help create tolerance, it is just a love story between two women who just happen to be women. I highly recommened this book to anyone (but it helps a lot more if you are open minded).

I was looking for a good lesbian book when I came across this one. Have you ever read a book where you just can't read fast enough for your liking? That's what this book does to me. It's wonderfully written and the characters are people that most everyone can relate to. I like that the chapters begin where the last one left off, rather than skipping a few days, because you feel like you are really there with the characters. Great book! I recommend it to most anyone!