Blessed Twice
by: Lynn Galli
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The problem with starting over in another state after losing your partner is that your new friends don't understand why you can't just get over it. They never saw how you were together, how much you loved her, how she was your life. They only see a number: three, as in, the number of years since she died. That's all the evidence they need to begin pressuring you to get back out there again. It doesn't matter that you've told them to back off. No, they feel it is their duty to butt into your life and ambush you with blind dates.
This wasn't a predicament Briony Gatewood anticipated when she relocated for tenure at a prestigious university. Yet after a year with her new friends, they've ceased being merely concerned and moved on to obnoxious. As if being fixed up wasn't bad enough, the dean at her college just volunteered her to teach a potentially career damaging class. Along for the experimental course is the socially challenged M Desiderius, a fellow professor who won't ever win a faculty popularity contest. But as they start working together, Briony begins to understand M's aloofness and is intrigued by the shy, brilliant, passionate woman. Enough so that she's starting to believe her friends when they say it's time to move on. And M, as complicated as her past has been and reticent as she seems now, may be the perfect person to help Briony finally heal and love again.
The problem with starting over in another state after losing your partner is that your new friends don't understand why you can't just get over it. They never saw how you were together, how much you loved her, how she was your life. They only see a number: three, as in, the number of years since she died. That's all the evidence they need to begin pressuring you to get back out there again. It doesn't matter that you've told them to back off. No, they feel it is their duty to butt into your life and ambush you with blind dates.
This wasn't a predicament Briony Gatewood anticipated when she relocated for tenure at a prestigious university. Yet after a year with her new friends, they've ceased being merely concerned and moved on to obnoxious. As if being fixed up wasn't bad enough, the dean at her college just volunteered her to teach a potentially career damaging class. Along for the experimental course is the socially challenged M Desiderius, a fellow professor who won't ever win a faculty popularity contest. But as they start working together, Briony begins to understand M's aloofness and is intrigued by the shy, brilliant, passionate woman. Enough so that she's starting to believe her friends when they say it's time to move on. And M, as complicated as her past has been and reticent as she seems now, may be the perfect person to help Briony finally heal and love again.
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- An Entertaining and Unique novel
This is the first book by Lynn Galli I have read, and on the whole, I enjoyed it very much. (it was recommended in the back of a Meghan O'Brien book)
Not having read "Imagining Reality", I am not familiar with the reappearing (and sometime annoying) "cast of characters", and as such, this is one of my only two complaints. Outside of the two main characters, (and ancillary walk-on parts) there are no less than twenty-eight reoccurring supporting characters! This, along with a difficult ... Read More
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- The Love of a Good Woman?
I had read Galli's Uncommon Emotions, and thoroughly enjoyed the humor, and relatively light hearted story line.I appreciate what she was trying for with Blessed, but have to wonder if she missed the mark.
Briony is a college professor who lost her partner three years prior to the beginning of the book.She is raising their son, and working as a professor in the Washington D.C. area.Enter M... not a typo.M is sullen, shy and introverted... all the things that attract a single mother ... Read More
Rating: - There is life after tragedy
Blessed Twice is a novel about experiencing life-shattering tragedy and discovering that you can survive it. Briony Gatewood lost her partner Megan in a rock climbing accident three years ago.She and her son Caleb have struggled through their grief and Briony is finally ready to move on with living.To try and make a new start, Briony has moved them from Vermont and all of their familiar surroundings and family to Charlottesville, Virginia, where she is a professor at the university.It's there that ... Read More
Rating: - can't wait for the next one!
OK, first I'll nitpick:University of Chicago is NOT a state school!!Now that I've gotten that out of my system, I have to say that I greatly enjoy this author.As far as lesbian romance goes, Lynn Galli's books are very satisfying and re-readable.While I like Uncommon Emotions and Wasted Heart the best, all of her books are great and well worth reading.
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- Galli at her best
Lynn Galli has always been a wonderful writer but I feel this is her best effort.She deals with a very difficult subject and does an excellent job of it.
- An Entertaining and Unique novelThis is the first book by Lynn Galli I have read, and on the whole, I enjoyed it very much. (it was recommended in the back of a Meghan O'Brien book)
Not having read "Imagining Reality", I am not familiar with the reappearing (and sometime annoying) "cast of characters", and as such, this is one of my only two complaints. Outside of the two main characters, (and ancillary walk-on parts) there are no less than twenty-eight reoccurring supporting characters! This, along with a difficult ... Read More
- The Love of a Good Woman?I had read Galli's Uncommon Emotions, and thoroughly enjoyed the humor, and relatively light hearted story line.I appreciate what she was trying for with Blessed, but have to wonder if she missed the mark.
Briony is a college professor who lost her partner three years prior to the beginning of the book.She is raising their son, and working as a professor in the Washington D.C. area.Enter M... not a typo.M is sullen, shy and introverted... all the things that attract a single mother ... Read More
- There is life after tragedyBlessed Twice is a novel about experiencing life-shattering tragedy and discovering that you can survive it. Briony Gatewood lost her partner Megan in a rock climbing accident three years ago.She and her son Caleb have struggled through their grief and Briony is finally ready to move on with living.To try and make a new start, Briony has moved them from Vermont and all of their familiar surroundings and family to Charlottesville, Virginia, where she is a professor at the university.It's there that ... Read More
- can't wait for the next one!OK, first I'll nitpick:University of Chicago is NOT a state school!!Now that I've gotten that out of my system, I have to say that I greatly enjoy this author.As far as lesbian romance goes, Lynn Galli's books are very satisfying and re-readable.While I like Uncommon Emotions and Wasted Heart the best, all of her books are great and well worth reading.
- Galli at her bestLynn Galli has always been a wonderful writer but I feel this is her best effort.She deals with a very difficult subject and does an excellent job of it.
