{"id":27324,"date":"2016-02-23T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=27324"},"modified":"2016-02-09T18:00:15","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T00:00:15","slug":"love-may-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/love-may-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Love May Fail by Matthew Quick"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"love<\/a>I was looking for an audiobook<\/a> to listen to in the car when I came across Love May Fail<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Matthew Quick. \u00a0I really enjoyed reading his previous novel, Silver Linings Playbook<\/a> <\/em>(and watching the movie adaptation<\/a>) so I checked it out without bothering to look at what this book was about. \u00a0If you have kids in the car with you, then you do not want to listen to this book. \u00a0Read it instead.<\/p>\n

Love May Fail<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>starts by introducing us to Portia Kane, who is currently sitting in her clothes closet, drunk, waiting for her husband and his lover to arrive. \u00a0After a hilarious confrontation, Portia decides to leave and gets on a plane. \u00a0While she is intoxicated. \u00a0She stumbles to her seat and finds herself sitting next to a nun. \u00a0Sister Maeve is kind and listens to Portia tell her tale of woe. \u00a0Before they part, Sister Maeve gives her a note and her address, in case Portia would ever want to write to her in the future. \u00a0And it is a good thing that Portia writes to her. \u00a0It turns out that they are looking for the same thing.<\/p>\n

The plane lands in Philadelphia, Portia’s hometown. \u00a0We quickly realize why Portia would want to escape this place after the first encounter with her mother. \u00a0Her mother is kind but clearly mentally unstable. \u00a0After dragging her mother to a nearby diner, Portia runs into a former classmate and learns that a beloved high school English teacher was forced to retire after a brutal attack. \u00a0This teacher was the only decent man that Portia Kane ever had in her life. \u00a0Determined to find him and bring him back to the classroom, Portia begins her quest.<\/p>\n

Some people believe that God has a master plan that brings people together. \u00a0Other people call it destiny. \u00a0Whatever you call it, in Love May Fail<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, you will see how one chance encounter can lead you to the person that you are looking for. \u00a0Matthew Quick brings multiple characters together through chance encounters that lead Portia to her former teacher, Mr. Vernon. \u00a0But just because you find the person that you are looking for, it does not mean that there is always a happy ending. \u00a0Mr. Vernon is a broken man when Portia finds him. \u00a0Will she be able to convince him that life is worth living?<\/p>\n

Love May Fail<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>is full of dark subject matter, but it is a very funny book. \u00a0Portia Kane is a believable flawed middle aged woman that is trying to find the one person that she believes has goodness inside him. \u00a0Along her journey, Portia encounters other characters that help her on her quest. \u00a0And she may find that there are other people that are good along the way.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was looking for an audiobook to listen to in the car when I came across Love May Fail by Matthew Quick. \u00a0I really enjoyed reading his previous novel, Silver Linings Playbook (and watching the movie adaptation) so I checked it out without bothering to look at what this book[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[361,10],"tags":[165,3405,3406],"class_list":["post-27324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-books","category-books","tag-humor","tag-love-may-fail","tag-matthew-quick"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-76I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27324"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27393,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27324\/revisions\/27393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}