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SusaleeBy Susalee on December 24, 2013
Format: Paperback Verified Purchase I must admit I couldn't put the book down and read until the wee hours of the morning. The book was well written, held my interest throughout and made me want to travel to Spain. I became intimately involved with the characters and I was sad when the book ended. I hope there will be a sequel.
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The Emotional Choices We Make in Love and Life!
By Judy New York on December 23, 2013 Format: Paperback Verified Purchase This is a passionate story about decisions that are made as a young adult and the different paths life can take with each. It begins with Annie completing graduate school, searching for a job, and questioning her long term relationship and their future together. Needing time to reflect, she travels to Costa del Sol and is enchanted by the beauty of the countryside. She becomes drawn into a relationship with a handsome and sensuous Spaniard who captivates her with his music and piercing brown eyes. While in Spain she is forced to make a choice that will haunt her for the next 26 years. The book is full of humor and emotion. You feel the intensity of each choice Annie makes and the story will have you wondering how your own life might have been different. We applaud Ms. Farkas on her very successful first novel. This is a beautifully written story which I highly recommend! LongIslandLinda
Posted November 10, 2013 This is a fun read for anybody who wonders what it would be like to have a lost love come back and be a part of their present life - including their husband and children. Annie, the main character, is funny with a strong personality and an identifiable voice. Husband Matthew will be familiar to all the women with workaholic husbands. I loved the Afterword, with comments from the real-life people who inspired the characters. Definitely put this on your list to read! Posted November 6, 2013
More,More! JM Format: Kindle Edition Verified PurchaseWonderful book from this new author. I love the voice she gives to the characters and the story line is very different from what is currently out there. A breath of fresh air! I hope there is a book 2. I dont think this is the end, I feel something more coming. 5.0 out of 5 stars Funny, relaxing and very enjoyable,
October 12, 2013 By SUSAN Verified Purchase This review is from: This Nearly Was Mine: A Novel (Kindle Edition) The biggest surprise (and my favorite part ) of reading this book was the humor. Stories about love, family and emotions are much more interesting when there is plenty to laugh at mixed in - and this tale has it. I'll be keeping an eye out for future books from this author, glad I found a good one! More than just a fun and fast read. October 3, 2013
By JSF - See all my reviews Verified Purchase This review is from: This Nearly Was Mine: A Novel (Kindle Edition) I thought this would be just another fun and fast, fluffy book, but boy was I wrong. This book is about the life of a women who has more than the standard story to tell. She brings us the story of a woman starting with family background, college, and then an amazing trip to Spain during the summer of 1980, where her world is falling apart and opening up at the same time. As the story unfolds you learn how that one summer echoes through her life. I don't want to give away too much, but the author makes me laugh and remember my summer of 1980, right down to the music! Nancy Farkas is a natural story teller who will suck you into her world and leave an imprint. This story makes you wish you had more than one life to live. I'm glad I read this book, check it out, you'll make a new friend in Nancy Farkas. 5 of 5 stars Amazing love story
September 1, 2013 VRVerified Purchase This review is from: This Nearly Was Mine: A Novel (Paperback) Amazing story, wonderfully written!! Every woman can relate to this story. I have suggested 'This Nearly Was Mine' to my family and friends and they loved it as well. She Nearly Had It All
By Patrick R. Pacheco on July 21, 2013 Format: Paperback While I'm unfamiliar with the "chick lit" genre, I picked up Nancy Farkas's "This Nearly Was Mine" as she is the spouse of a colleague. Glad I did. It's a delightful, funny, sexy, fascinating and perceptive novel about Annie, a social worker whose emotional needs are met by two men--a handsome, passionate and mysterious Spaniard and a good-looking, kind, amusing and even-tempered husband. At one point, her spouse Matthew makes a fitting reference to "Dona Flor and her Two Husbands," a 1976 Portuguese comedy about a rakish ne'er-do-well husband who, after death, returns as a rather carnal ghost to haunt his wife and mock his placid and responsible successor. Farkas has set up something of the same dynamic with an emotionally complex heroine at its center. It's not hard to see why two such psychological opposites would be attracted to Annie, a dark-haired beauty. She's as naïve as she is knowing, as sexually open as she is innocent, as consistent as she is contradictory, and as needy as a child living within a self-possessed and liberated woman of her generation. Mind you, my evaluation is all from the perspective of a male of the species. But what I find most compelling about the book--and what makes it so amusing--is Annie's honesty and bluntness, particularly in her e-mails to Francisco, the Spanish "paramour," and in her occasional harangues to Matthew, her patient workaholic of a husband, for his absenteeism. "Paramour" is in quotes because Annie and Francisco spend most of the novel apart, on two different continents. Their affair begins steamily in 1980 but except for a skyped sexual release at a time of tremendous crisis in Annie's life, there is not that much actual physical contact between Annie and Francisco. And yet their relationship is one for the books, one of the most sexually platonic relationships in history. You'd have to go back to the legendary and star-crossed lovers Abelard and Heloise or to A.R. Gurney's "Love Letters" to find an epistolary romance that has the engaging power of the one detailed over three decades in "This Nearly Was Mine." It's a wonderful summer read, a wry and absorbing tale that redefines with originality and a hard-won wisdom, the meaning of lust, love, fidelity, friendship, family, marriage and all those blessings and curveballs which life throws our way. A Riveting Page Turner
LFB on July 17, 2013 Format: Paperback Verified Purchase Reading This Nearly was Mine by Nancy Farkas made me feel as if I was seated next to a middle-aged stranger, it's narrator, Annie, on a long flight. At the end of the flight, I would get off the plane saying Oh my g-d, Oh my g-d, what an incredible story! It was meant to be that Annie's college-aged daughter in 2006 went to Spain and was able to reconnect her mother with the rock of her life, friend and lover during the summer of 1980 when she had just finished graduate school and was having doubts about her upcoming marriage. After the initial phone call, Francisco and Annie developed an intimate skype relationship and eventually reconnected in Finland along with Annie's husband. The American was not the warm, adoring husband that Francisco would have been, but he understood Annie's moods and charms, her goals, her values and made her laugh. Annie adds to her story by quoting songs, books, attitudes and movies of the late `70's that help set the feeling and backdrop of the time and place and even insists that the reader look it up to be made aware of its truth. For anyone who has ever asked, did I do the right thing, am I with the right person, how would my life have been different if I had just .....this book will make you write chapters in your head of your own story. I would highly recommend this page turner. One of the best! July 3, 2013
This review is from: This Nearly Was Mine: A Novel (Paperback) The book brought me back to the day and brought that time to life in a perfectly formed book. I enjoyed it thoroughly and recommend it Highley. George Whipple |
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