Twentyone Truths About Love, Matthew Dicks
Twentyone Truths About Love, Matthew Dicks
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Twenty-one Truths About Love

Author: Matthew Dicks

Narrator: James Patrick Cronin

Unabridged: 5 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/19/2019

Categories: Fiction, Family Life


Synopsis

From the beloved author of Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend comes a wonderful new novel about a struggling man, written entirely in lists. 1. Daniel Mayrock loves his wife Jill…more than anything.
2. Dan quit his job and opened a bookshop.
3. Jill is ready to have a baby.
4. Dan is scared; the bookshop isn’t doing well. Financial crisis is imminent.
5. Dan hasn’t told Jill about their financial trouble. He’s ashamed.
6. Then Jill gets pregnant. This heartfelt story is about the lengths one man will go to and the risks he will take to save his family. But Dan doesn’t just want to save his failing bookstore and his family’s finances―he wants to become someone. 1. Dan wants to do something special.
2. He’s a man who is tired of feeling ordinary.
3. He’s sick of feeling like a failure.
4. Of living in the shadow of his wife’s deceased first husband. Dan is also an obsessive list maker, and his story unfolds entirely in his lists, which are brimming with Dan’s hilarious sense of humor, unique world-view, and deeply personal thoughts. When read in full, his lists paint a picture of a man struggling to be a man, a man who has reached a point where he’s willing to do anything for the love (and soon-to-be new love) of his life.

About Matthew Dicks

MATTHEW DICKS is a writer and elementary school teacher. He has been published in the Hartford Courant, featured at the Books on the Nightstand retreat, and is a Moth StorySLAM champion. He is the author of three previous novels, Something Missing, Unexpectedly Milo, and Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, an international bestseller. His novels have been translated into more than 25 languages. Dicks lives in Newington, Connecticut, with his wife, Elysha, and their two children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Meredith (Trying to catch up!) on May 22, 2019

I was going to create my own list comprised of twenty-one truths about this book, but I realized I only needed one: I loved Twenty-one Truths About Love! Twenty-one Truths About Love is a humorous, quirky, and endearing read about one man’s fears, anxiety about impending fatherhood, feelings (most......more

Goodreads review by JanB on May 02, 2020

Twenty-one truths about this book: 1. It’s often hilarious 2. Except when it isn’t 3. I LOVE lists 4. But an entire book written in list form gets annoying after a while (maybe like this review?) 5. Read it as you would a book of essays and set it down in between. 6. My husband wasn’t annoyed when I rea......more


Quotes

"Told entirely through a series of lists and notes, this audiobook is appealing in its novelty. Its protagonist, Dan, offers astute observations that elicit laugh-out-loud moments, and narrator James Patrick Cronin captures that side of the character's personality with aplomb."

AudioFile Magazine