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    It's Not Shakespeare
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    It's Not Shakespeare
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    It's Not Shakespeare

    By Amy Lane

    3.5/5

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    About this ebook

    College professor James Richards is in a rut and feeling his age. He moved to northern California to escape heartbreak and humiliation, but so far the only good thing to happen to him has been his Boston terrier, Marlowe.

    Then James’s toughest student sets him up with her best friend. Rafael Ochoa is worlds apart from James—chronologically, culturally, and philosophically—but he’s also beautiful, kind, and a shot of adrenaline to James’s not-quite-middle-aged heart. Together, the two of them forge a bridge between James’s East Coast sensibilities and Rafael’s West Coast casualness, but can their meeting of the hearts survive James’s lack of faith in happy-ever-after?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamspinner Press
    Release dateNov 9, 2011
    ISBN9781613722008
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    It's Not Shakespeare
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    Amy Lane

    Award winning author Amy Lane lives in a crumbling crapmansion with a couple of teenagers, a passel of furbabies, and a bemused spouse. She has too damned much yarn, a penchant for action-adventure movies, and a need to know that somewhere in all the pain is a story of Wuv, Twu Wuv, which she continues to believe in to this day! She writes contemporary romance, paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and romantic suspense, teaches the occasional writing class, and likes to pretend her very simple life is as exciting as the lives of the people who live in her head. She’ll also tell you that sacrifices, large and small, are worth the urge to write. Website: www.greenshill.com Blog: www.writerslane.blogspot.com Email: amylane@greenshill.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/amy.lane.167 Twitter: @amymaclane

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    • 4/5
      This is a sweet story. Compared to the other Amy Lane books that I have read, it is much less intense, but no less enjoyable.


      What I liked about this is that each characters have insecurities and we get to see them rise above them. It's also a story of opposites attract and I loved how Rafael gets James to live again instead of trying to hide.


      This is one of those romances that you can just sit back and know that there is going to be no drama or too much angst.

    • 4/5
      Very entertaining. Another great story by Amy Lane. 4 stars
    • 4/5
      This was a sweet story and James and Rafi were great together. I did want to bop James on the head a few times and tell him to wake up, but he redeemed himself in the end, so I forgive him. Really enjoyed this one, including Marlowe, man's best friend.
    • 2/5
      James Richards is a college professor who has reached the stage in life where he feels his age has caught up to him. It's just him and his dog, Marole, and he doesn't know if he'll ever find that elusive dream of love. But when one of his students introduces him to Rafael, a younger man with the looks of an underwear model, there's a small spark of wonder. But Rafi is far too young for James, and Rafi's family dynamic is one that James hasn't ever really encountered before. Can he really put his heart on the line and hope it won't be shattered again?

      This one just didn't hit the mark for me. The dialogue was awkward at times and the relationship seemed very forced--it was like it went from 0 to 110 in a matter of seconds. It didn't feel organic at all. So I found myself just unable to get into this at almost any level, really.
    • 3/5
      It was very entertaining and I enjoyed the characters. This, however, didn't pull me in emotionally.

      It did have me thinking of what ppl think in an inter-racial relationship, it made me think of my siblings and their relationships; how they differ, what's the same... Both my sisters are married to American men. My oldest sister to an Irish-German American; my younger sister to Black-White American (raised Jewish) and my younger brother to a Romanian-American. There has been a learning curve for all of us; and I can't say that it's been learned yet. We've had some issues within the family because of different upbringing and social/cultural differences that come with such diversity. For myself, I had a baby with a Dominican man, which is what is familiar. Having been raised in the US, we had some cultural differences, but not like with my in-laws. It's also a bit complicated when my parents don't speak English and the in-laws don't speak Spanish. Someone is always getting excluded from the conversation; until the translations begin. It sometimes gets tiring having the same conversation twice :| My point, even with all the different mixes in my family, I have not had to deal with it on a intimate level myself. It was interesting to get into James' head to see what he thought or how he perceived things. It was also very nice to see the sacrifices made by both so that Rafi could maintain his relationship with his family.

      Having said that, I didn't fall in love with the characters. Rafi was a bit too much for me and James not enough... For me, James' pain wasn't really felt by me. He came across as a bit of a whiner. Rafi came on too strong and was a bit off-putting. And, maybe because I'm not a dog person, but all that face licking was not pleasant for me. Marlowe was great, but that licking! Too much...

      Amy Lane is a favored author and I will continue to buy all her stuff. I just didn't have that connection to these characters as I've had with her previous works.