Love Is a Canoe

Several decades ago Peter Herman wrote a book about marriage and called it 'Love is a Canoe'. It is a folksy book about lessons he learned while spending summers with his grandparents while he was growing up. His parents were in a horrible relationship and his summers were the only happy time in his......more

This is a good book and I do recommend it. The writing is really strong, the overall premise clever and I really enjoyed the sly publishing insider stuff which is absolutely hilarious if you catch it. There is some really brilliant characterization going on in this book. Schrank absolutely knows the......more

I haven't ever found a book whose dialogue felt so authentic and utterly real to me. This is a moving portrayal of the human condition, love, relationships, and ties in to contemporary society's dependency on self-help books for solace and guidance. Once we see that the creator of a self-help book i......more

i enjoyed some of the sentiment within, but the ending felt kind of drawn back together like a disorganized medley of strings being pulled taught into a knot. it "ended", but it felt mildly confusing how it all came together.......more