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This Is a Love Story
This Is a Love Story | Jessica Soffer
8 posts | 3 read | 4 to read
An intimate and lyrical celebration of great love, great art, and the sacrifices we make for both For fifty years, Abe and Jane have been coming to Central Park, as starry-eyed young lovers, as frustrated and exhausted parents, as artists watching their careers take flight. They came alone when they needed to get away from each other, and together when they had something important to discuss. The Park has been their witness for half a century of love. Until now. Jane is dying, and Abe is recounting their life together as a way of keeping them going: the parts they knew--their courtship and early marriage, their blossoming creative lives--and the parts they didn't always want to know--the determined young student of Abe's looking for a love story of her own, and their son, Max, who believes his mother chose art over parenthood and who has avoided love and intimacy at all costs. Told in various points of view, even in conversation with Central Park itself, these voices weave in and out to paint a portrait as complicated and essential as love itself. An homage to New York City, to romance, and even to loss, This Is a Love Story tenderly and suspensefully captures deep truths about life and marriage in radiant prose. It is about love that endures despite what life throws at us, or perhaps even because of it.
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lilpumpkin2.0
This Is a Love Story | Jessica Soffer
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March 27, 2025 READ this book very slowly. It is definitely not written like other books. Some words are repeated. The sentences are fragmented but the ideas are there. Overall, the author captured the theme of love through these two characters by telling a love story. I would give the book 4/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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lilpumpkin2.0
This Is a Love Story | Jessica Soffer
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March 27, 2025 These words are simple but mean a lot. Simple words or sentences may look simple but can have a deeper meaning. For example, read the words above. She is likely gone from Abe's life which is pretty sad. You can tell how much Abe loved Jane and how much they had gone through together. He was by her side and cared for her with every last bit of his own heart. He wanted her to feel loved. And I THINK SHE DID ❤️

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lilpumpkin2.0
This Is a Love Story | Jessica Soffer

March 25, 2025 On Chapter 27!!! Very close to the end. I feel like the pace of the writing is picking up speed. It was slow in the beginning and middle and NOW it is getting faster. I read mostly about Jane and how she is feeling after giving birth to Max. She wasnt even sure whether she would have Max but she did and Abe is helping in any way he can. She appreciates it. He also is writing a book while she is making artwork. Abe loves her #love

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lilpumpkin2.0
This Is a Love Story | Jessica Soffer

March 25, 2025 whoa 25 twice haha Anyway, Ik I have posted very little about this book. I have been busy and have not had much time to sit in my bed and read. I enjoy reading but can't seem to find time. Im on Chapter 24 and every page that I read, I can really feel all the emotions and love between the characters. The book is a gift just like Ana Napolitano stated. Jane is reflecting back on how she gave birth to Max and also what it felt like

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lilpumpkin2.0
This Is a Love Story | Jessica Soffer

March 11, 2025 I thought this book was going to be written the same way as other books where the pages are filled from top to bottom and continue to the next page. Nope. This book is set up in a diary-like fashion and most paragraphs begin with "You remember...". I am really liking the way that the author writes each chapter from different perspectives: Jane, Abe, and Max (miracle son).

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lilpumpkin2.0
This Is a Love Story | Jessica Soffer
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March 5, 2025 MY NEXT TBR

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angieinwonderland
This Is a Love Story | Jessica Soffer
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I am bailing on this, at least for now. Stories told in the second person need to satisfy a very specific mood for me. I can see what the author is trying to do and how epic a love story it could be, but it isn't hitting the spot. Plus, the "Alice" pov suggests a direction I don't care to go when trying to settle into a love story.

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BookNAround
This Is a Love Story | Jessica Soffer
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This came out today so I thought I should probably read my ARC. 😬

TiredLibrarian Looking forward to this one. I read and loved The Forty Year Kiss and this sounds like it might be a readalike. 2mo
LeahBergen Hello, Pussums. 😆 2mo
AnnCrystal 💕😻💝. 2mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 2mo
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