The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver...

The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver Episode 2 by Shawn Inmon is an interesting story about second chances. Thomas Weaver returns to his high school years with all the knowledge he has as an adult.

"Guess it doesn't matter how cheap something is if you have no money." Thomas thought as he purchased a Marathon candy bar. He wondered when they had stopped making them and savored every morsel.

He was returned to 1976 but remembered everything that came after that time. I gave it four stars.

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this well-written tale is about a man's obsession over an exercise accessory and his eventual possession by it.

for something short, it packed a lot of details and enough chills to keep me entertained from start to finish!

Shawn Inmon has made an impression and i will be adding his name to my roster of TBR authors.

Can we sneak in a quick summer read on this next-to-last weekend of summer 2015? Why, yes, I believe we can.

Second Chance Summer continues the story of Elizabeth and Steve, who ran into one another on a Christmas tree lot several months back and rekindled an old romance. Now, Steve is on the verge of making a fortune on a high-flying real estate deal involving the construction of a resort hotel in the Philippines. He's about to whisk Elizabeth off on vacation -- just the two of them -- when a typhoon hits the island where his big deal is going down. This intervention by Mother Nature will tax the couple, both physically and financially. But what will it mean for their relationship?

This is the third installment in Inmon's five Second Chance Love stories. He has since collected all five into a single volume. But the stories can be read separately, and the fact that I haven't read any of the others affected neither my understanding nor my enjoyment of this one.

Inmon is a wonderful writer whose romances always deliver. If you enjoy reading contemporary romance, you could do much worse than any -- or all -- of the stories in Second Chance Love.

I'll be honest: I'm not a huge fan of memoirs. On the other hand, I think everyone of a certain age has somebody in their past who they would date again in a heartbeat. So on that basis, I decided to give Feels Like the First Time a whirl.

The book opens with Shawn, who's in a miserable marriage that he hasn't had the gumption to end, stopping at a drive-through window on his way home from work. There at the window is Dawn, the love of his life. They had lived next door to one another as teenagers, in the late 1970s and early '80s, in a little town in Washington state. First they were friends; then Dawn's mother hired Shawn to tutor her daughter; and then they fell in love. At this point, Dawn's parents -- well, mainly her mother -- decided the relationship needed to end. A couple of youthful missteps sealed the deal, and the two of them were forbidden to see one another again. But Shawn has never forgotten Dawn, and decades later, Fate steps in to bring them together again. It's not all sunshine and roses, however. The two of them have to figure out just what went wrong back then, before they can even think about creating a happy ending at last.

I'm not that much older than these two crazy kids, so I could really relate to Inmon's depiction of his high school and college years, although I felt like that part of the story went on a little too long. But the present-day portion of the book was wonderful. When Dawn says in wonderment, "You're my Shawn" -- yeah, that got me right in the feels.

I would recommend Feels Like the First Time to anybody who grew up in the '70s and '80s, and to anybody who likes a good love story.

Short 25 page story. I did like the main characters up until the halfway point; this is where they broke up the friendship twenty years ago and neither got over it. I lost any sympathy/empathy for female MC after what she did in the post-break up period. Her current sob story was the result of dumbass decisions she made in that period. By the time they got to the HEA, I didn't care if they ended up friends or something more. I think the male MC could have done better than the female MC, but he wanted to live in the past.

Author's note at the end of the book stated that there was going to be more stories about these two characters as their relationship grows - all are holiday themed (Valentines, July 4th, etc) and ending with another Christmas story in 2014. Yeah, I'm hoping off the train now, because I can see the female MC doing some really dumb shit in the name of love.

1 star for the male MC and the Christmas tree sale lot guy.