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Title: Touchwood by Karin Kallmaker ISBN: 1-931513-37-6 Publisher: Bella books Pub. Date: December, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.36 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Good novel!
Comment: This book was honest and unsparing about ageism and many other issues, including the spiritual cost of being closeted. Unepxected for a "romance." I then read the sequel and was amazed. What a one-two punch, and how approrpiate it was to our lives.
Rating: 5
Summary: A cut above
Comment: I read Touchwood and Watermark in reverse order. Watermark, Kallmaker's ninth novel, is writing of a very high level and it is really interesting to see the seeds of Kallmaker's talent in Touchwood, which I believe is her second book.
Touchwood is far more romance novel than Watermark, but it is far from simple. Sure we could have had the easy story of Rayann falling for a woman old enough to be her mother. May-December romance stories are almost cliche. But Kallmaker doesn't stop there.
Even though Touchwood is solely from Rayann's 29-year old point-of-view, we see Louisa's 56-year old character clearly. Louisa has done much in her life, survived the death of a partner, remained closeted for the benefit of her son. She was butch when mothers were supposed to be femme. When Louisa realizes she is falling in love with Rayann she holds herself back, feeling that she has no right to take the best years of Rayann's life, not when she's already had her share of love. In short, she doesn't deserve the love of a younger woman.
I was rooting as much for Louisa as I was for Rayann. Louisa had bought into the idea that an older woman just isn't worth as much as a younger one. Rayann changes that. Rayann does resist the love and has a passionate, but light-hearted, affair with Zoraida. Her own mother is not happy about Louisa and Rayann's affair when she discovers it, but soon realizes that she prefers Louisa to any of her daughter's previous lovers. Louisa respects her daughter, for starters. In the end, everyone just has to grow up.
Best of all, and erotically portrayed, is Rayann's discovery that for all her sex-positive youth she can hardly keep up with Louisa in bed.
When I finished Touchwood, having already read Watermark, I was uplifted. Touchwood gave me all the nuance of two women deeply in love and Watermark all the depth of character that made me want to give the books to straight people in my family to say "Our lives are just like yours, we love, we grieve, we survive." The two books together provide a range of expression and experience that I've yet to find in any other so-called "romance" novels.
Rating: 5
Summary: Touchwood
Comment: I just finished this book. I loved it. I couldn't put it down. Rayanne takes you through all of her emotions. You feel like you are right there with her. I would have to say this is one of the best stories I have ever read. It gave me goose bumps. I would definately recomend it to anyone who likes a good romance.
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Title: One Degree of Separation by Karin Kallmaker ISBN: 1931513309 Publisher: Bella books Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Embrace in Motion by Karin Kallmaker ISBN: 1931513392 Publisher: Bella books Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Maybe Next Time by Karin Kallmaker ISBN: 1931513260 Publisher: Bella books Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: In Every Port by Karin Kallmaker ISBN: 1931513368 Publisher: Bella books Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Painted Moon by Karin Kallmaker ISBN: 1931513538 Publisher: Bella books Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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