5/18/2023 0 Comments Enthusiasm by polly shulman![]() ![]() ![]() Booklist Top Ten in Youth First Novels, 2006.New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, 2006.Shulman manages to lift the story above standard fare with clever plotting and quirky, often elegant writing that should please the literary crowd while keeping romance lovers engaged. Comical misunderstandings ensue in this innocent who-will-wind-up-dating-whom farce. “Two best friends experience confusion in love in this nifty little spin on Pride and Prejudice…. Readers caught up in this debut novel’s romantic whimsy and humor.” ![]() “Witty exchanges, comic errors and miscommunications that could be taken right out of a Jane Austen novel…. “A fanciful romance…delightfully wholesome.” ★“Wry engaging… an impressive first novel.” Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight saga “Whenever someone asks me for a reading suggestion, Enthusiasm is the first word off my tongue." 'He's going to kill himself over an eighth-grader?'), Enthusiasm has the makings of an instant classic." “Winsome and witty, loaded with lunatic junior-high aperçus ('Juliet's not even 14 yet,' a young Shakespeare scholar remarks. " Enthusiasm, like Pride and Prejudice, bubbles over with romantic misunderstandings and comic confusion." ![]()
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