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Now a film – Lost and Delirious – based on the bestselling novel, directed by Lea Pool and starring Piper Perabo, Jessica Paré, and Mischa Barton.

This fall Susan Swan’s gothic tale of sexual longing and repression at a boarding school for proper young ladies comes to the big screen in a critically acclaimed production renamed Lost and Delirious. Renowned film critic Roger Ebert called it “one of the most carefully crafted, most professional films...at this year’s Sundance Film Festival...the characters are enormously interesting and likable [and] gorgeous.”]]> 63678 3.36 94 17 993981 1582344531 9781582344539 5 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180060927m/993981.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/993981.What_Casanova_Told_Me_A_Novel 3.27 15
It's 1797, and an aging Casanova has returned to Venice in disguise to elude the authorities. There he meets Asked For Adams, the niece of American president John Adams, who is accompanying her father on a trade mission, just as Napoleon's army invades, throwing the city into chaos. Casanova convinces Asked For to abandon her future as the wife of a Yankee farmer and set out with him on a dangerous adventure through post-Byzantine Greece to Istanbul, which she records in intimate detail in her travel journal-until the account ends suddenly.

Two hundred years later this journal comes into the possession of Luce Adams, Asked For's twenty-first-century descendant, an awkward and shy young archivist grieving her mother's death. En route to her mother's memorial service in Crete, accompanied by her mother's lover, and entrusted with delivering precious letters by Casanova to the Venetian library, she falls under the spell of the two adventurers and becomes determined to find out what happened to them.

As their stories interweave, both young women are touched by the spirit of Casanova, a man whose appetite for life and generous spirit ignites possibility everywhere he goes. By the end, Luce uncovers the fate not only of Asked For but of her own mother, and she finds herself set free by what she learns about travel, self-invention, loss, acceptance, and, of course, love.
</div>]]> 63678 3.36 94 17 109994 0863583067 9780863583063 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/109994.Biggest_Modern_Woman_of_the_World 3.60 5 63678 3.36 94 17 1460747 1895897734 9781895897739 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1460747.Stupid_boys_are_good_to_relax_with 2.80 5 63678 3.36 94 17 2637210 0886194040 9780886194048 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1214434656m/2637210.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2637210.Last_of_the_Golden_Girls 2.25 4 63678 3.36 94 17 4579780 0886194342 9780886194345 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4579780.The_Biggest_Modern_Woman_of_the_World_A_Novel 4.00 2 63678 3.36 94 17 3061562 096909230X 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3061562.Unfit_For_Paradise 5.00 1 63678 3.36 94 17 4579779 0676975763 9780676975765 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4579779.What_Casanova_Told_Me 1.00 1 What Casanova Told Me could almost be classified as academic, or literary, chick-lit. In her first novel since 1993's The Wives of Bath (made into the 2001 motion picture Lost and Delirious), Susan Swan delves into the life of the 18th century's most notorious womanizer while following the parallel adventure of a contemporary protagonist, Luce Adams. The story begins with Luce travelling through Europe with the lover of her recently deceased mother. The purposes of the trip are two-fold: to pay tribute to Adams's lecturer mom and to deliver some Casanova-penned letters, discovered in the family cottage, to the Venetian Library. As the journey progresses Luce reads the letters and discovers an affair between the infamous rake and her distant relation Asked For Adams, a cousin of former president John Adams. The parallels between Luce, just beginning to come into her own, and Asked For are hard to miss, but the two-centuries-old love affair--told through the letters as well as Asked For's journals--is alive in a way that the novel's modern relationships aren't. Nevertheless, What Casanova Told Me is a wise book, with some important lessons to impart on mother-daughter bonds, the value of travel, and the nature of desire. As Swan, by way of Casanova, says, "Our longings provide us with the text of our lives and lead us to the faiths we need to enact our destinies. And our paradox is this: the true art is not to satisfy our longings, but to learn how to cherish them." --Shawn Conner]]> 63678 3.36 94 17 3368845 0750702958 9780750702959 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3368845.The_Thinking_Books 0.0 0 63678 3.36 94 17 1514318 0889104204 9780889104204 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1514318.Mothers_Talk_Back_Momz_Radio 0.0 0 63678 3.36 94 17