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Breeze, easy read. Loved it. A perfect book after reading the wonderfully intense The Painter. Beach Read meant a little more to me, I met my wife in a read and critique group twenty-five years ago where I was reading my first manuscript. Beach Read has a complex set up or conflict, which is done with verve and an economy of words. There is a big coincidence in the beginning to make the story work, but I got through it fine. The two main characters switch roles, one writes literary fiction and the other writes, “romcom,�� (Romantic Comedy). They have writer’s block and decide to switch their books/genres. Another odd coincidence was that I just finished reading a literary book that was dense with wonderful prose, The Painter by Heller, and then found myself reading a romcom. I may have related to this book more than others because of all the references to writing—loved that part of it.
I’ve never read romcom before (started this last year) and I think the reason I am really enjoying this type of book is that they are about more than anything else, hope. And in trying times like these who doesn’t need a tad bit of hope?
Too often the “story telling�� in Beach Read turns into talking heads and threatened to toss me out of the fictive dream.
I really enjoyed this book and highly recommend it to those who enjoy romantic comedies.
David Putnam author of The Bruno Johnson series.