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The Joys of Love
The Joys of Love | Madeleine L'Engle
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During the summer of 1946, twenty-year-old Elizabeth is doing what she has dreamed of since she was a little girl: working in the theatre. Elizabeth is passionate about her work and determined to learn all she can at the summer theatre company on the sea where she is an apprentice actress. She's never felt so alive. And soon she finds another passion: Kurt Canitz, the dashing young director of the company, and the first man Elizabeth's ever kissed who has really meant something to her. Then Elizabeth's perfect summer is profoundly shaken when Kurt turns out not to be the kind of man she thought he was. Moving and romantic, this coming-of-age story was written during the 1940s. As revealed in an introduction by the author's granddaughter Léna Roy, the protagonist Elizabeth is close to an autobiographical portrait of L'Engle herself as a young woman—"vibrant, vulnerable, and yearning for love and all that life has to offer."
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bookishnerd
The Joys of Love | Madeleine L'Engle
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Book, warm socks, maybe some wine, and my reading buddy. I have actually owned this book for a while but kept putting it off because of the authors passing. Here's hoping I don't hate it!

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ReadingEnvy
Joys of Love | Madeleine L'Engle
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The books that I added to my shelves in June http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2016/06/new-books-in-june-2016.html

Reviewsbylola I added Enchanted Islands in June too and just started it yesterday. 8y
ReadingEnvy @Reviewsbylola I probably wouldn't have already read it but one of my students' father's kept asking me about it. 8y
MrBook Niiiice! 8y
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