How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky: A Novel, by Lydia Netzer
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How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky: A Novel, by Lydia Netzer
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Lydia Netzer, the award-winning author of Shine Shine Shine, weaves a mind-bending, heart-shattering love story that asks, "Can true love exist if it's been planned from birth?"
Like a jewel shimmering in a Midwest skyline, the Toledo Institute of Astronomy is the nation's premier center of astronomical discovery and a beacon of scientific learning for astronomers far and wide. Here, dreamy cosmologist George Dermont mines the stars to prove the existence of God. Here, Irene Sparks, an unsentimental scientist, creates black holes in captivity.
George and Irene are on a collision course with love, destiny and fate. They have everything in common: both are ambitious, both passionate about science, both lonely and yearning for connection. The air seems to hum when they're together. But George and Irene's attraction was not written in the stars. In fact their mothers, friends since childhood, raised them separately to become each other's soulmates. When that long-secret plan triggers unintended consequences, the two astronomers must discover the truth about their destinies, and unravel the mystery of what Toledo holds for them―together or, perhaps, apart.
Lydia Netzer combines a gift for character and big-hearted storytelling, with a sure hand for science and a vision of a city transformed by its unique celestial position, exploring the conflicts of fate and determinism, and asking how much of life is under our control and what is pre-ordained in the heavens in her novel How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky.
How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky: A Novel, by Lydia Netzer- Amazon Sales Rank: #962365 in Books
- Brand: Netzer, Lydia
- Published on: 2015-06-30
- Released on: 2015-06-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.22" h x .98" w x 5.44" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 368 pages
Review
“It's a lovely summer valentine.” ―Entertainment Weekly
“Antically inventive, often outrageously funny...Netzer excels at comedy.” ―New York Times Book Review
“Two star-crossed stargazers twinkle in Lydia Netzer's spritely How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky.” ―Wall Street Journal
“[A] winning second novel...two flawed souls whose love is as quarky as it is quirky...showing us the redemptive power of love as a truly cosmic force.” ―The Boston Globe
“A genuinely moving love story at its core, with the added bonus of humor that is sweet and almost soul touching.” ―Bookriot Round-Up
“Netzer's sophomore effort may be even stronger than her excellent debut. Readers will be unable to stop thinking about this book, stunning in its poignancy, long after the last page has been read.” ―RT Book Reviews "Top Pick" (4.5 stars)
“An intelligent and imaginative love story.” ―Bookslut
“With a title that reads like a line of verse, the novel's mesmerizing cadence is little surprise. There is a deeper poetry to Netzer's writing, as well. Netzer exposes the magic in the mundane, the enchantment of the earthbound. Her characters, like us, share space with the stars. Perhaps the most breathtaking revelation of Netzer's novel is that the world is more dazzling on our side of the atmosphere.” ―Minneapolis Star Tribune
“A diverting romp through two generations of well-intentioned friends and lovers...much-anticipated, fabulous second novel” ―Booklist (starred review)
“Netzer's star burst into existence with Shine Shine Shine and flares even more brightly in How to Tell Toledo From the Night Sky. Watch her work for further illumination, and pity lesser writers who settle for the commonplace light of ordinary days.” ―Richmond Times Dispatch
“Lydia Netzer delivers an original, quirky love story, glittering with stars and teeming with humor.” ―Bustle.com
“No one writes like the brilliant Lydia Netzer; she's a visionary with a huge voice and an impeccable ear for language. How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky evokes an Ohio where math has married mysticism, where a woman at war with falling in love can find herself flying into it instead, where a man will fight both his demons and his deities to finally connect. It's a powerful reinvention of the love story---sometimes heart-wrenching, sometimes glorious, but always truly original. Compelling, rich with ideas, and perfectly written, it left me breathless. I love this book, and you will, too.” ―Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of A Grown Up Kind of Pretty
“Lydia Netzer has a refreshing way of looking at the world that captivates me--it's as if she's leading me to a grassy hill far from the lights of a noisy city and there we lie on our backs, hands behind our heads, and stare at the star-pricked night sky in wide-eyed wonder. In her novels, she combines math, magic, and science in a unique alchemy that gives us an entirely new kind of love story. In How to Tell Toledo From the Night Sky, she writes about "twin souls who collide and love each other forever." I urge you, dear reader, to collide with this book. It may just change the way you think about love.” ―David Abrams, author of Fobbit
About the Author LYDIA NETZER was born in Detroit and educated in the Midwest. She lives in Virginia with her two home-schooled children and math-making husband. When she isn't teaching, reading, or writing her next novel, she plays the guitar in a rock band. Her first novel, Shine Shine Shine, was a New York Times Notable, and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. This is a wonderfully quirky, mind-bending, eccentric story. By She Treads Softly How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky by Lydia Netzer is a very highly recommended buddy-novel-cum-romance-cum-dysfunctional-family story about cosmology, astronomy, and astrology. Yes, it is all that and more.In Pittsburg astrophysicist Irene Sparks has made a research discovery that will define her career. At the same time her research project shows results, her estranged mother Bernice, an alcoholic who worked as a psychic, has a fatal fall at her home in Toledo. Sparks' ground breaking discovery has allowed her to accept her dream position at the Toledo Institute of Astronomy, while concurrently dealing with her mother's demise. She is leaving her boyfriend, Belion, behind, but he soon calls and says he is coming to Toledo too.Already at the Toledo Institute of Astronomy is George Dermont, an astrophysicist who just happens to be trying to prove that a gateway to the gods exists. Unknown to all but his father, George actually sees some of these gods in his daily life and has for years. George has always felt that he is missing someone, someone who was there but then left. He's also on the prowl for any female astronomer with brown hair who also happens to be a dreamer. A Psychic once told him that would describe the woman with whom he would fall in love. When he sees Irene for the first time he knows she is the one, the one he has been missing for years.Unknown to either Irene or George is the fact that their mothers used to be very good friends and had planned from their conception that their children would be soul mates - that they were destined for each other. But currently neither George nor Irene has a clue that their mothers ever knew each other, let alone had a plan for their future - together.This is a wonderfully quirky, mind-bending, eccentric story. I'll fully admit that I thought I had the plot all figured out very early on, and as one prediction after another came to be true, I was feeling a little smug, and a little let-down, that is until Netzer threw in some zingers and surprised me. This is not a run-of-the-mill love story. It is an original blend of science, mythology, fate, predetermination, psychics, gaming, family history, dream-control, and romance. It is totally original and unique.Netzer's writing ability has to be a major part of the success that she can pull off such an unusual story and have it work so well. The characters were wonderfully realized, totally formed individuals that are certainly unique. The plot is a creative blend of what an astute reader might guess is going to happen along with some real surprises that I'll venture no one would predict.I love Netzer's Shine, Shine, Shine and was a bit worried that How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky wouldn't live up to her first novel. It was a crazy concern with no basis in fact. This is an excellent novel that stands on its own and need no comparison to her first novel. In fact, I had an audio copy of Shine, Shine, Shine and loved it, but after reading Netzer I'm planning to go back and read it so I can savor her written words. She has a brilliant way of expressing herself and I think I need to see her written words.Now, while I adored this novel I can see where some people might have a problem with its mix of psychics, and sex, and science, so keep that in mind.Disclosure: My Kindle edition was courtesy of St. Martin's Press via Netgalley for review purposes.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful. Glimpses of greatness By Phil 413 Within the first few chapters, I was drawn into this story - the language and style of writing, the characters, the plot. I thought, "This resonates; I am really going to love this."But as the story progressed, while I liked it, I didn't love it throughout the rest of the book as much as I did at the very beginning. The ending has some of the magic the beginning offered, and I remembered what had initially drawn me into the story. But I didn't feel the magic, the total immersion, throughout the entire story. There were times I didn't want to keep reading; I was bored, annoyed, or just disappointed by anything from too much silliness which took away from some of the beauty of the story, or characters who ended up being shallow, or shells of the people who, I thought at first meeting them, had depth and unique style. At times I felt as deceived as Irene (who was made for George) says she is.The story is good - sweet even - and the characters are quirky and likable. It's a love story on more than one level - it's not all fairy tale, either, as some hearts connect and others don't: Not everyone gets a happy ending, and that was fine. But the deeper meanings and lovely, lyrical thoughts and insights are limited (the dreaming and the connections the characters shared there was the best and most fascinating part of the whole story). And that's what bugged me most. Overall: A nice story with glimpses of greatness which ultimately doesn't live up to its potential.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Fabulously quirky! By Kristen De Haan I was lucky enough to receive an Advanced Reading Copy of How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky.I woke up early(ish) one mid march morning to continue reading Lydia Netzer's second novel. I *tried* to read it slowly. I really did. But I failed miserably and continued reading it until I finished.It was a joy to read and I loved how smart and funny and scientific and heartbreaking and poignant and sweet and hopeful it is. I think I need to work on lucid dreaming. I also think I will be reading this again now that it is out for everyone else.For those of you who enjoy fabulously quirky and delightfully nerdy books, I highly recommend this How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky.And now? I must wait for Ms. Netzer to finish her third book...
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