Spinning (The Hearts of Men Book 7), by Lou Aronica
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Spinning (The Hearts of Men Book 7), by Lou Aronica
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The unforgettable tearjerker about friends in love and instant families. Dylan Hunter has it made. At 29, he has great friends, a huge job, all the women he can handle, and no commitments. A public relations executive, Dylan has dashed up the ladder of success by mastering the art of the spin – bending the truth to his and his clients’ needs. But when a former lover steps back into his life with a three-year-old girl by her side (no, she’s not his), Dylan suddenly finds himself in a place he can’t spin himself out of. And when Dylan unexpectedly becomes the child’s sole guardian, he finds himself to be like a circus performer trying to keep all of his spinning plates from crashing to the ground. In what seems like a blink of the eye, Dylan Hunter’s life has changed completely…whether he’s ready for it or not. Alternately humorous and poignant, romantic and tragic, playful and dramatic, SPINNING is the kind of wise, touching, emotion-packed novel readers have come to expect from Lou Aronica. “An amazing job of hitting the proverbial nail on the head…. Buy this one immediately, folks.” – The Feathered Quill “Extraordinary…. Full of unexpected surprises and resonant with realizations that are presented in a touching and practical manner that isn’t saccharine or stereotypical.” – Crystal Book Reviews “SPINNING has some poignant scenes that take one’s breath away, humor that sparkles, and characters that stir up a wealth of emotions.” – Long and Short Reviews “An exciting read with plenty of life’s lessons woven in.” – Midwest Book Review PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS MICHAEL BARON.
Spinning (The Hearts of Men Book 7), by Lou Aronica- Amazon Sales Rank: #2905964 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-06-01
- Released on: 2015-06-01
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Review "Michael Baron has done - yet again - an amazing job of hitting the proverbial nail on the head.... Buy this one immediately, folks." --The Feathered Quill"Extraordinary.... Michael Baron has crafted a tale that is anything but mundane, full of unexpected surprises and resonant with realizations that are presented in a touching and practical manner that isn't saccharine or stereotypical. Keep writing, Michael Baron! Spinning is fine writing indeed!" --Crystal Book Reviews"I love Michael Baron's books. He is such a storyteller! Spinning is equally amazing.... Once again, Baron has written a masterpiece!" --Book Reviews R Us
About the Author Michael Baron is the pseudonym for a successful nonfiction writer. He is the author of two previous novels' When You Went Away (Story Plant' October 2009) and Crossing the Bridge (Story Plant' January 2010). His next novel' Leaves will come in the fall of 2010.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. “I’m not really good at … ” I let my voice fade, hoping that Diane would understand that many men, including myself, don’t get into giving kids baths.“At what? Bathing? Come on. I’ll teach you. But first, why don’t you find me a story or two to read before she goes to sleep? And we’ll need a glass of water.”“A book or two and a glass of water. Are you going to do a magic trick?”Diane disappeared in the back and I went to find the books. Locating a story or two shouldn’t be a problem. I went to the bookcase. I slid my finger along the titles and passed by The Great Gatsby – too complicated. A Farewell to Arms – unlike the movie, she dies in the end. The Art of War – not tonight. It was looking pretty slim until I finally found my number one management-training book, Green Eggs and Ham.I got a cup of water, and set it and the book next to the bed.“Diane?” I called tentatively, as I knocked on the bathroom door. “Is she a prune yet?”“Come on in. We’re almost done.”Come on in? “Are you sure?”“Oh, Dylan … ”Once inside, I discovered a little girl covered in soap and a lovely arrangement of chaotic shampoo horns jutting from her head. Spring looked like a spiny blowfish.Then I realized I was staring at a little naked girl and turned around.“I’m sorry, Diane. I didn’t realize she was uh, not wearing clothes.”“Did you think she’d have a swimsuit on? She’s three-and-a-half. Don’t worry.”I turned back around. “I just don’t want Spring to feel uncomfortable.”Spring turned around with her arms crossed over her chest, which made me feel a little better. If I had to be in the bathroom while she bathed, if she covered her little … self, then I could talk with Diane while they did their bath thing.Then she did something I never imagined she’d do. Spring hopped to her feet, spreading her arms and sending soap bubbles into the ozone. I quickly turned away.The last thing I remember was me slamming face-first into an open cabinet door. When I opened my eyes, I was staring at the ceiling. Wrapped in a white towel and looking like a human marshmallow, Spring waved at me.Diane pressed a compress to my nose and forehead.“Dylan, are you okay?”I grabbed the ice and held it to my nose, which felt like it had taken the majority of the impact. I didn’t need to check the mirror to know that my nose had swollen. It now obstructed vision in both eyes. “I told you I didn’t have any experience with that whole bath thing.”“You didn’t make it to the bath thing. You got as far as the cabinet door thing, which led to the ice thing.” She touched my head. “Better use lots of ice on this tonight.”Feeling a little better, I sat up. “What happens next?”“It’s probably going to swell up a bit more.”“I meant with your evening routine.”“Oh, that. Spring goes to bed and we read to her. Did you find any books?”“Spring, do you like Dr, Seuss?” My face felt heavy.“Yeah!”“Maybe you can read it to her,” Diane said.“Me?”“Every night before bed,” Diane said, “we read two books, and sing a song, and … ”“ … water!”“And we drink a small glass,” Diane eyed the Yankees 32-ounce guzzle cup I’d brought in, “of water and then we do animal impressions. Spring, is it okay if Dylan reads to you instead of Mommy tonight?”She nodded, and Diane handed me the book.In spite of the pain in my nose, I thought it would be fun to read the book to Spring. I’d always had a thing for Dr. Seuss. I pulled the chair close to the bed and began Green Eggs and Ham.By the time we reached, “I do so like green eggs and ham,” her eyes had started closing – even though I could see she was trying to keep them open. She hadn’t had much sleep since flying in from Chicago two nights before, and I assumed Spring was history for the night. Then I learned something important about children: having a routine can mean a lot more to them than their need for sleep.“Song … ?” Diane looked at me.“What?” I asked.“Mom, you do it,” Spring said.I gestured toward Diane. “She wants you to sing.”Still looking at me, Diane said, “Spring, wouldn’t you love for Dylan to sing to you tonight?” She was delighting in making me feel uncomfortable. The interesting thing was that I was enjoying her doing it.Spring shook her head. “He doesn’t know how.”I mustered up as much of an indignant expression as I could pull off with the ice still pressed to my nose. “Don’t know how? Clearly, you missed the New York Times review of my last shower.” I removed the compress, stretched my neck, then belted out:New York.Concrete jungle where dreams are made of &hellipSpring buried her face in her pillow and I stopped.Diane laughed. “How about something a little less edgy. Maybe John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt?”Spring turned back toward us. “Yeah!”“I don’t really remember the words.”“Just follow along.”Diane began to sing. Spring giggled through every refrain, then called for another song, as her routine required two. Diane looked at me and I raised my eyebrows to suggest that I wasn’t about to venture forth on my own here.“How about The Itsy-Bitsy Spider?” Diane said.“The Band of Horses version or … ”She chuckled. “Just sing along.”As Diane began to sing, the song came back like I was in preschool again. When I remembered some of the hand motions, I abandoned my compress. Spring delighted in the songs. At first, I thought it was because we were entertaining her and keeping her up late. But with each verse of the song and every spider dance move, I could tell that she was pleased with my participation.“Water, please,” she said, sticking her hand out.After drinking a few sips – there was probably enough water in there to last until her fourth birthday – she adjusted her pillow for the next part of the show.“There’s more?” I asked, looking at Diane. It seemed to me that this routine was designed to last until the morning.“This is the really fun part,” Diane said, winking. “We do animal impressions. I’m guessing you’ll be really good at this.”“Is there a video camera somewhere? Did my friend Hank put you up to this?”“Oh, come on, Dylan. You were made for his role.”I shook my head to deny the fact that I was actually enjoying this. You don’t get too many inner child opportunities when you’re out conquering the world.
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44 of 49 people found the following review helpful. enjoyable extended family drama By A Customer Twenty-nine years old Manhattan Mason, Brand and Partners executive Dylan Hunter seems to have everything. Women want him; his apartment is the best in New York; his work has made him the top gun and kept his plan to retire at forty viable. A friend of his Billie works at the same firm. She is the female Dylan, but because she is a woman society considers her a ruthless bitch who is ambitious and aggressive while applauding Dylan for the same tactics.Dylan's former girlfriend from his Chicago days a century ago, Diane has arrived accompanied by her three years old daughter Spring. She explains he is all she knows in the Big Apple as she plans to start anew. Diane asks if they can stay at his place for now; even he cannot understand why he said yes. Spring turns his life around as she draws on his perfectly painted walls, introduces him to the animals at the zoo and dines on a gourmet macaroni and tofu with cheese. When an accident occurs, Dylan continues to care for Spring by allowing some of the plates he spins in his previous hedonistic life to crash. He enjoys every minute with her; as does Billie, but knows the court will soon intervene.This is an enjoyable extended family drama as Dylan and Billie learn what life is all about from a precocious (perhaps too precocious) little girl. The cast is solid especially the lead trio, but also those at the office, his best friend Jimbo and case worker Mrs. Eckleberg. Readers will enjoy this poignant tale as Michael Baron provides a deep message that to lead a fulfilling life, one must spin various plates including the care and nurturing of others.Harriet Klausner
18 of 20 people found the following review helpful. Touching and compelling By Wendy L. Hines Have you ever seen those clowns who are spinning many plates and then they let one fall so that they can save the others? Dylan Hunter is constantly spinning but refuses to let any plates drop. He's a young executive director for a public relations firm who works hard and parties even harder. He has a great Manhatten apartment that has a revolving door where the women are concerned. He tells himself he may want to have kids later - much later, but marriage doesn't even enter into the equation.In the middle of the night, he hears a knock on his door. He doesn't know who it could be, but is frantically looking for something to wear and to see where his girl of the night is. She seems to have left but her underthings are strewn about the apartment. He is shocked to see ex-girlfriend Diane at the door with her young daughter. Still half out of it, he invites them in while he is frantically figuring out dates in his head to see if the girl is his. Diane explains to him that she has sold everything to come to Manhatten at his suggestion to get a great job. Dylan made that suggestion years ago, but it took this long for her to take the plunge. They need somewhere to stay until they find an apartment and Dylan quickly agrees to them staying with him.Dylan's plates are spinning; he is not used to people in his home and interrupting his routine, but he quickly adapts. The little girl, Spring, quickly makes her way into his heart. But when there is an accident, Dylan becomes the sole caretaker of Spring. Dylan does his best, but Spring is scared that Dylan will go away too. Two people find their way towards one another, but Dylan's plates are spinning at a frantic rate and something has to fall.Michael Baron pens such soul-searching novels that are full of warmth, humor and superb characters. When you first meet Dylan, you see a partying no-care-in-the-world player just looking out for himself. But Dylan grows and matures as a little girl shows him how to really live and to love. The antics that Dylan and Spring get up to will tug on your heartstrings and make you laugh out loud. A very touching and compelling story not to be missed!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A New Spin By For What It's Worth... If ever there was a book that brought you into the characters' lives, Spinning is that book. Baron's descriptions had me feeling as though I was right there with "D" and his friends, Jim, Hank, Billie, and his boss, Mason.****SPOILER ALERT*** DON'T READ UNLESS YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE BOOK IS ABOUT ***Dylan is a regular young playboy, picking up chicks at bars, never staying with one for any length of time. He drinks with his buddies and plans to wow the business world with his intelligence and he's got what it takes.Early one morning after one of his late night rendezvouses leaves his apartment, showing up on his doorstop is a woman from one of these flings along with a small girl. "D" as his friends know him as - quickly does the math trying to figure out whether he's going to find out he's the girl's dad.The woman, Diane tells D that she sold her belongings, left Chicago and now needs a place to stay for her and her daughter until she finds an apartment. D agrees. She quickly insinuates herself into his life and into his apartment. It doesn't take long for Diane's young daughter Spring to find her way into his heart.Diane lands a job and an apartment and moves out but continues to be a big part in D's life. He finds himself asking divorced Jim how he knew that his ex was "the one," thinking that Diane might be "the one" for him. He then talks to his friend, ex-lover, and co-worker Billie about it but Billie plays around just like D so she's clueless.D is ready to declare his feelings for Diane but he gets a dreaded phone call where he find out that she got killed in an accident. He has no clue who to notify. Diane's parents are long deceased and Spring's father never knew he had a child, according to Diane.He expects that Spring will be out of his life now in no time and things will be back to the way they were pre-Diane and Spring - back to his former playboy life once he finds a relative for her but quickly discovers that the three and half year old is scared and needs something and someone familiar. She's confused and doesn't understand that Mommy isn't coming back.Billie and Jim and other of D's friends rally around him. Mason tells him to take a month from work. D makes a half-hearted attempt to locate a relative for Spring. Billie spends more and more time with them and Spring takes a quick liking to her, even making it difficult when D tried hooking up with Lauren who quickly exits his apartment.He's so grateful for Billie and all she's done for them. Her Christmas gift to him is a weekend on Cape Cod for the three of them. After a great weekend, D discovers that Billie still wants to play the field and he tells her to just go and that he can't have her in their lives like that. He misses her.Child Services shows up at his door and they take Spring away. He's made no attempt for custody..._________________________________________________Dylan finds that he's grown up a lot -- he's changed having Spring in his life. He can't picture life without her.I was touched by the way his bar friends were there for him and for Spring. Who especially touched me was his divorced friend Jim who lived in the same building as D. Of course, Billie touched me as well, in the way she let down her hair with them and became like a child herself. She brought over food and Jim had the beer and pizza. D could go to Jim's door and wake him in the middle of the night, bringing Jim to the door in his boxers looking frazzled, letting D in and talking with him.There were the ducks, the penguins, the zoo and Mr. Jim and hot dogs. (Mr. Jim isn't the same Jim as the neighbor. Mr. Jim sells those hot dogs.) There was the doorman and others whom Spring never failed to charm. There was the mac and cheese, the frozen pizzas, the soy, and tofu. -------------Yes, it's a romance, but more than romance, it's the letting go of the love of oneself and opening up to give and receive love to/from others. It's the learning to let go of self-dependence and depending on others. Letting others in. Really in.
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