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Eloquent Silence
by
Sandra Brown (Goodreads Author)
Lauri is a dedicated young teacher for the deaf. Her past conceals a wound still unhealed, her present is a facade, and she uses her career to hide her loneliness. Drake, daytime TV's most popular star, has two secrets -- the daughter he believes may never have a normal life and the dead wife he can't forget. Jennifer is the beautiful hearing-impaired child who may become ...more
Mass Market Paperback, 288 pages
Published
January 1st 1995
by Warner Vision
(first published 1982)
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I have come to adore Sandra Brown and her books!
Until recently, I'd read only a couple of her romantic suspense books, and they were fantastic, but I became distracted by other books before I could read the rest. I recently won one of her books on a goodreads giveaway, and now I'm hooked!
Why am I hooked you ask?
For me, her books are like chocolate... Stress relieving, glorious, rich, almost-sinful, pure reading pleasure. Also, Ms. Brown is a generous author; the book I...more
Until recently, I'd read only a couple of her romantic suspense books, and they were fantastic, but I became distracted by other books before I could read the rest. I recently won one of her books on a goodreads giveaway, and now I'm hooked!
Why am I hooked you ask?
For me, her books are like chocolate... Stress relieving, glorious, rich, almost-sinful, pure reading pleasure. Also, Ms. Brown is a generous author; the book I...more
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ELOQUENT SILENCE
By Sandra Brown
Copyright 1982 by Sandra Brown
Publisher: Warner Books, Inc.
261 Pages
Sandra Brown has written a beautiful love story with three beautiful characters. It is fast reading and good for escape.
Lauri is a “goody two-shoes” teacher of the deaf who becomes the private tutor of adorable Jennifer, a toddler who is hearing impaired. Jennifer is daughter of a sexy soap opera star who likes to bate Lauri. Of course Drake and Laur...more
By Sandra Brown
Copyright 1982 by Sandra Brown
Publisher: Warner Books, Inc.
261 Pages
Sandra Brown has written a beautiful love story with three beautiful characters. It is fast reading and good for escape.
Lauri is a “goody two-shoes” teacher of the deaf who becomes the private tutor of adorable Jennifer, a toddler who is hearing impaired. Jennifer is daughter of a sexy soap opera star who likes to bate Lauri. Of course Drake and Laur...more
Really sweet story, December 6, 2008
This story was originally released in the early 80's but is surprisingly timeless.
Lauri is a teacher for the deaf that takes on the position of full time caretaker of the 3 year old daughter of a very popular soap opera star named Drake. Immediately, there's mutal attraction, but both Lauri and Drake have much baggage from previous relationships.
Lauri relocates from New York to Drakes house (estate) out west to take care of Dr...more
This story was originally released in the early 80's but is surprisingly timeless.
Lauri is a teacher for the deaf that takes on the position of full time caretaker of the 3 year old daughter of a very popular soap opera star named Drake. Immediately, there's mutal attraction, but both Lauri and Drake have much baggage from previous relationships.
Lauri relocates from New York to Drakes house (estate) out west to take care of Dr...more
I probably would only have given this two stars, but it's partly about a little deaf girl. Which automatically intrigues me, what with my plan to minor in ASL. I do have to say, though, that while saying that the characters would sign to each other, the language itself played a very minor role in the book, especially considering that the title comes from the use of sign. I still don't know if they were using ASL or signing English, which are two very different ways of speaking with the hands....more
It was a nice book, but not as nice as Sandra Brown other books.
It just wasn't so emotional, spontaneous, exciting, touching like in the other books.
This is the book i like the less, but i still like it.
Drake is an actor and a single father with a 3 years old deaf girl. He hires a private teacher to teach his little girl the sign language and how to write and read. He lost his wife and don't want to love again - but his daughter teacher is nothing he had imagined. A...more
It just wasn't so emotional, spontaneous, exciting, touching like in the other books.
This is the book i like the less, but i still like it.
Drake is an actor and a single father with a 3 years old deaf girl. He hires a private teacher to teach his little girl the sign language and how to write and read. He lost his wife and don't want to love again - but his daughter teacher is nothing he had imagined. A...more
Deaf-student teacher is hired by attractive soap-opera actor to become his daughter's private, live-in tutor. She has hard time resisting sexual offers of this non-committing hero who promised not to love again after his wife died.
Read this book the 1st time 15 yrs ago & liked it. Just re-read it & could not believe the glaring sexual harrassment behaviors at work here. Even though heroine tells hero clearly that his advances are unwelcomed b/c he hired her as her daughter's private...more
Read this book the 1st time 15 yrs ago & liked it. Just re-read it & could not believe the glaring sexual harrassment behaviors at work here. Even though heroine tells hero clearly that his advances are unwelcomed b/c he hired her as her daughter's private...more
This book was totally predictable no matter what way the story turned, so why then did I rate it 4 stars, well it was because the 2 main characters Drake and Lauri were great fun. Even though the book is really old, first published in 1982, you couldn't tell with the exception of a scene set in the airport. Lauri is a spitfire and determined to stick to her laurels even with the handsome Drake around, which is hard as he is a soap opera actor and has all that charisma those leading men do. At...more
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I didn't actually win this book. Sandra Brown sent it along with another book I had won. Thank you.
It is definately a 1980's story. The lack of communication between H and h, the male "must have sex, no emotion" but in this case our H has a little more spine and is not a virgin (been unhappily married before and dealt with it). Their dancing around got annoying after a while. Her parents showing up and their "marriage" was an eye-roll.
Keeping in mind w...more
It is definately a 1980's story. The lack of communication between H and h, the male "must have sex, no emotion" but in this case our H has a little more spine and is not a virgin (been unhappily married before and dealt with it). Their dancing around got annoying after a while. Her parents showing up and their "marriage" was an eye-roll.
Keeping in mind w...more
Well-written as usual for Sandra Brown. Very sexy throughout but somewhat predictable. Given that, I had 2 problems with this story: Laura repeatedly states that Blake is still in love with his deceased wife. That statement, without anything stated by Blake, gets a little repetitive and whenever the romance heats up physically, Laura lets it get fairly heated before she changes her mind. Talk about a tease! However, the bottom line is that this author is a master at written love-making!
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Got this book at Goodwill to send to a friend in Iran (katayoun, that's you) who likes romances. This author is one of bumma's favorites. But I started to read it, and sorry- it was just too yucky a book to send to Katayoun. It is one of Sandra Browns early romances and she had not yet developed her character development skills. It was like a Disney family film gone bad. Now I have to figure out what to do with it. Maybe I'll put a letter of apology in the book when I do a wild release.....
I chose this audio book because of the plot element of the little deaf girl and her teacher and because I needed a few audio books for a long automobile trip. Otherwise...the dated attitudes, trite & repetitive dialog,blatant sexual harassment and predictable story line would have had me tossing a paperback out the window.
It was just that...something to while away the boring hours of a long drive. It passed the time. Not terrible, for a semi-bodice ripper, I guess.
It was just that...something to while away the boring hours of a long drive. It passed the time. Not terrible, for a semi-bodice ripper, I guess.
I'm not overly impressed, as this is a dated romance, but sometimes that's just the thing for a great audiobook "read." I'll keep going and see how it goes, maybe I can get past the dated aspects, but it's going to have to get better for me to get over the main character wearing "stockings" with sandals, and the male lead virtually assaulting his future true love at their first meeting.
I gave up -- just couldn't do it. I like Sandra Brown, but can't do the old s...more
I gave up -- just couldn't do it. I like Sandra Brown, but can't do the old s...more
I hadn't realized that this was a re-publish of a book Sandra Brown had written under a different name (Romance "name"). I little more heavy on the romance that I'm used to, compared to some of her more suspenseful novels I have enjoyed, where the focus is on that, and the romance is a little more secondary. Still, it was a sweet story and I liked the fact that it dealt with a deaf child and her teacher and the teacher's approach to teaching her to be like a normal child and not give i...more
Reviewing this for free as part of a First Reads giveaway.
Shortly after winning the audio version, someone gave me a copy of the book. I never actually received this one (mail mix up?) so I can't tell you how good/bad the reading was, but I wanted to say that I loved this book! Sandra Brown does her usual impeccable job in a romance novel.
Shortly after winning the audio version, someone gave me a copy of the book. I never actually received this one (mail mix up?) so I can't tell you how good/bad the reading was, but I wanted to say that I loved this book! Sandra Brown does her usual impeccable job in a romance novel.
This story has a male daytime soap opera star who keeps his private life very private. He's hiring a companion/tutor for his deaf daughter. The daughter and companion are going to live on the star's property in New Mexico. How the woman is hired and what happens when they go to Mexico makes for an interesting romance.
fat read, I liked it a lot. It was super romantic and really cute. The only think I didn't like was Drake's look. I don't really find moustache sexy so i always had to imagine him differently lolXD But the book was great though:D
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This was the very first Sandra Brown book I ever read. I enjoyed it so much, I now own all of her books. This was such a great book ~ very moving with believable characters. Would recommend!
Received as a surprise bonus with a signed copy of Charade from the author, from a Goodreads giveaway! I haven't read it yet, but I'm looking forward to it!
I should stick with her suspense novels, her romance doesn't really do anything for me. It was something to read.
I just finished this book.....having a DEAF daughter myself I found this book to encouraging and touching....
I enjoy Sandra Brown. I'm a sucker for single fathers and little children so this book hit the spot.
Sandra Brown never disappoints. This is one of her older books (1982) but it really reads like it could be a book that was written recently. All of her books are like that. You can't tell that it was written 28 years ago and I think that speaks volumes for the author.
Eloquent Silence was a great story that took an interesting turn at the end. I had no idea of the little twist that I was going to read when I was towards the end of the book. Brown always keeps me on my toes which is wh...more
Eloquent Silence was a great story that took an interesting turn at the end. I had no idea of the little twist that I was going to read when I was towards the end of the book. Brown always keeps me on my toes which is wh...more
All I'm going to say is, this book is definitely a product of its time.
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Passed the book over to my mother. All I have to say is it looks like Ill be getting more of these for her for Christmas. She said it was a great read and thanks me for giving it to her. Thanks for the autographed book.
This book should give all writer-wannabes hope - You Too Can Be Published.
The Hero is a jerk if not a sociopath. There were so many times I thought that he would have to bite the dust for the story to find a happy ending. Unfortunately, that didn't happen.
The Heroine is so dense she would welcome home Jason, hockey mask and all. She would, no doubt, be thinking "Why is it he makes every cell in my body tingle?" Bleeeeeeack
However, I learned a lot ...more
The Hero is a jerk if not a sociopath. There were so many times I thought that he would have to bite the dust for the story to find a happy ending. Unfortunately, that didn't happen.
The Heroine is so dense she would welcome home Jason, hockey mask and all. She would, no doubt, be thinking "Why is it he makes every cell in my body tingle?" Bleeeeeeack
However, I learned a lot ...more
I love almost all romance stories. I did not care for the spanking, the fear of being hit and the mustache. The male lead was just too vague.
Una historia que empieza muy bien, luego se pone un poco aburrida y después es fantástica. Una pizca de drama, algo de comedia y mucho romance, así es esa novela. Los personajes son humanos, bien definidos y llegas a conocerlos hasta el grano... es como si pudiesen irrumpir en tu casa a cualquier momento. Además del romance de los protas, las escenas con Jennifer son estupendas por la naturalidad con que ella y los otros viven su discapacidad. Una lección para quienes pensan que no ser igual es ...more
Entertaining, an easy read.
one more love story that makes u feel fall in love all over again
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Sandra Brown is the author of sixty-one New York Times bestsellers, including LETHAL (2011), TOUGH CUSTOMER (2010), SMASH CUT (2009), SMOKE SCREEN (2008), PLAY DIRTY (2007), RICOCHET (2006), CHILL FACTOR (2005), WHITE HOT (2004), HELLO, DARKNESS (2003), THE CRU...more
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Sandra Brown is the author of sixty-one New York Times bestsellers, including LETHAL (2011), TOUGH CUSTOMER (2010), SMASH CUT (2009), SMOKE SCREEN (2008), PLAY DIRTY (2007), RICOCHET (2006), CHILL FACTOR (2005), WHITE HOT (2004), HELLO, DARKNESS (2003), THE CRU...more
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