Read, Learn, and Shine: Just three dates

Hi Everyone,

I fell in love with this book the minute I opened it! I gave a little giggle at the mothers and could imagine the whole thing happening. What a brilliant concept. Three dates in the mothers' arranged marriage plan... Not the norm in their country, but come on they are getting older. Well the mothers think so any way. So the scheme is three dates and the mothers will leave them alone.

This is where I became entangled in their love triangles. I wanted to bang their heads together and tell them to sort things out many times as they showed their normal humanity based on past believes and hurts. They seemed great together but such a mess at the same time. I had to keep turning the pages to see what the next date would bring and if in fact they would finally connect properly.

The one person I wanted to tear from the book was Marks 'ex-almost-fiancee. I didn't get to met her until the end but by then she had driven me nuts! But this is what makes a good book. When you become so a part of the story the characters become real.

Overall a great read that I would probably pick up and read again.

Happy reading

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When their mothers become matchmakers, entangling them in a series of dates with each other, Karen and Mark must each decide whether to entertain the idea of a “marriage of convenience,” or to hold out for an increasingly unlikely marriage based on love.

Since breaking with her last boyfriend, Karen has refused to trust any man her age. For the past three years, she has not dated the same one twice, and only one in ten has received even a goodnight kiss as she turned him away. Karen is an artist. She follows her feelings, lives in a cluttered loft, and gushes over vivid sunsets.

Mark still dreams about his almost-fiancée, and his date book has been empty since he threw her out a week before he’d planned to ask for her hand. His friends call him the “Ice Man,” since he seldom smiles, especially at a woman. A math professor at the College, logic guides his behavior, he loves order, and an elegant proof is a thing of beauty.

Both Karen and Mark have all but abandoned hope of ever falling in love, and, left on their own, these opposites would never attract. So, their mothers become matchmakers, entangling them in a series of dates by extracting promises that Karen and Mark will go out together three times, suggesting that, in the absence of love, a “marriage of convenience” is a live option.

If you enjoy heartwarming stories based on true-to-life behaviors, with complicated relationships and a less-than-certain outcome, this book is for you.

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David Burnett lives in Columbia South Carolina, with his wife and their blue-eyed cat, Bonnie. The Reunion, his first novel, is set in nearby Charleston.

David enjoys traveling, photography, baking bread, and the Carolina beaches. He has photographed subjects as varied as prehistoric ruins on the islands of Scotland, star trails, sea gulls, a Native American powwow, and his grandson, Jack. David and his wife have traveled widely in the United States and the United Kingdom. During one trip to Scotland, they visited Crathes Castle, the ancestral home of the Burnett family near Aberdeen. In The Reunion, Michael's journey through England and Scotland allows him to sketch many places they have visited.

David has graduate degrees in psychology and education and previously was Director of Research for the South Carolina Department of Education. He and his wife have two daughters.

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