Surprise Me, Deena Goldstone
Surprise Me, Deena Goldstone
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Surprise Me

Bestseller

Author: Deena Goldstone

Narrator: Carla Mercer-Meyer

Unabridged: 10 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/21/2016


Synopsis

The dream of becoming a writer takes hold of Isabelle Rothman during her senior year of college. Feeling brave, she begins a tutorial with a once highly praised novelist, Daniel Jablonski, known on campus as eccentric and disengaged. Despite his reputation, Isabelle loves his novels and hopes he can teach her the secrets of his luminous prose. But their first meeting is a disaster. He never read the chapters she submitted and will not apologize for being unprepared.

Slowly, over the semester, they gingerly form a bond that begins to anchor both of them. Over the next twenty years, as they live separate lives—she in California and he in New Hampshire—they reach out to each other. Their connection helps Isabelle find the courage to take greater risks and push Daniel to work through layers of self-loathing and regret that have kept his career from flourishing. They are the single constant in each other's lives.

Daniel and Isabelle recognize they are among the blessed few who meet at the exact moment they need each other the most. In a final collaboration, the boundaries of teacher and student give way to a work that heals something in each of them. They truly see each other as extraordinary—as people do when they love—and that belief makes all the difference.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Evie

So, this was an interesting read. Isabelle is in her last semester at college when she meets Daniel, a professor. He's got a reputation and she has second doubts as to how their first meeting would go. Is he going to stare at her and say a word or will he actually say something? Their meeting doesn't......more

Goodreads review by Lucie

Unusual! Not at all what I was expecting when I first read the summary. I thought it will be a love story when it was the story of a deep connexion and a wonderful meeting of two connected writing souls. Both Isabelle and Daniel are teacher and student during their life. Through their relationship, th......more

Goodreads review by capture

Isabelle Rothman meets Professor Daniel Jablonkski during her writing mentorship program in her college years. Daniel is known for his eccentric and wonky personality other fellow students interpreted as “difficult ones to work with.” However, Isabelle loves his first two novels and hopes to gain so......more

I’ve seen better, but this book is really cute!......more