541 reviews for:

Modern Love, Revised and Updated: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption

Daniel Jones

4.11 AVERAGE

tgorthi's review

5.0

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So real. Cried a little. Worth it, 100%.

shannahtan's review

3.5

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Got this in a stuff swap courtesy of Lindsey Moore! Since it’s a collection of short stories, they were really hit or miss in terms of writing and storytelling. I liked it as a before-bed read because it was easy to find a stopping point. I thought the organization was good, and there were many stories of love from failed dating to divorce to grief to families to children. I bookmarked a couple of favorites:

• You may want to marry my husband
• When Mr. Reliable becomes Mr. Needy
• When the doorman is your main man

isobel_shobs's review

4.0

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I don’t really read many non-fiction books but this was such a refreshing read! These are what make it great for me: 

1. The fact that these stories are REAL!!
2. The diverse representation of love.. it wasn’t just about romantic love 
3. The length of the stories.. not too lengthy or too short

I enjoyed this a lot!

bookaholiz's review

4.0

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This is the type of short stories I have loved. Concise, straightforward, with a neat little life lesson at the end. I have enjoyed reading all the slices of life and love in this book. They were unique, undoubtedly, but they are also true resemblance of real modern life, and that’s what I love about it. It’s a collection of all the colours of life and you don’t have to try to feel the outpouring empathy through the pages. There’s no philosophy, no metaphors, or in more modern words, they’re not trying too hard.

This book rekindled me with short stories again and connected me with Western short stories because I have not found a collection of short stories I enjoyed in a while. I started writing by writing short stories, and I’m glad I loved them again. Maybe I’d even write them again.

vitcra's review

4.0

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chorar conta como skincare? porque eu sinto que gastei atoa um monte de máscara e produto chorando com esse livro!

modern love é, originalmente, uma coluna do jornal New York Times e existe desde 2004. a proposta era publicar histórias de amor enviadas por pessoas reais, e o amor que falamos aqui é no sentido mais amplo da palavra, não se limita ao romance: pode ser o amor dos casais, o amor de família, amor entre amigos, amor que acaba, o amor por coisas, e até mesmo o amor que nunca nem aconteceu.
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nesse livro, foram selecionadas 42 histórias com jornadas incríveis, desde um date que deu errado até a história de adoção tardia de um adolescente transgênero, cada uma com média de 6 páginas. esse é o tipo de livro que eu gosto de ler enquanto to tendo um tempo de qualidade comigo mesma, depois de tomar um banho quentinho, cuidando da pele, deitada numa rede tomando sol durante a tarde, porque ele aquece seu coração e te preenche da mesma forma que essas coisas fazem.
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eu adorei e minha única crítica é voltada pra questão da diversidade. acredito que poderiam ter selecionado um número maior de histórias contadas por pessoas não-cis e não-hétero, aposto que muitas foram enviadas e deixaria o livro extremamente rico apresentando vivências reais.
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confesso que algumas histórias são mais legais que outras, algumas te deixam com o coração muito quentinho, outras te deixam triste, te fazem pensar demais, e tem também as que passam batido e são mais paradas, mas de qualquer forma, vale a pena!

hchristmas's review

3.0

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This month's @pageonebooks selection was a collection of essays written by real people about their own real love stories. Not just romantic love stories (which I appreciate—although it felt like a lot of romantic love stories...), but love in friendships, family, self, community, etc. It was a really quick read and a lot of fun for me to read so many different perspectives. I especially loved the age range—one story about two elderly runners particularly tugged at my heart. In some essays, I felt the authors were a little too desperate to be counter-cultural, and in so doing, appealing to the masses of society and really not being counter-cultural at all. Some I did not sympathize with and some I didn’t enjoy the style of writing. But that is what you get with a collaboration such as this, which is what makes it great, I think. It’s a way to understand the world and the people in it a little better. That’s what reading is for, I suppose.

ada_k's review

2.0

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It was okay I guess?

rishikac's review against another edition

5.0

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I love this book because of all the different types of real love it talked about. It was so interesting to see what situations each person believed were love. And some of these stories made my heart hurt

akh210's review against another edition

4.0

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I love the modern love podcast, so it was nice getting to relive some of these stories again. Some of these stories were truly extraordinarily written — I’m just 7 pages is as crying. Would recommend if you’re looking for a collection of short stories!  

gissellereads's review

5.0

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I got this book for Christmas and I started reading it immediately. I watched part of the tv show (which is based on some of the short stories in this book) and loved it!

My thoughts:
This is a book of short stories about love, loss and redemption (a compilation of the stories featured in the NYT column). I felt so many emotions while reading the stories and found myself marking some that I want to go back to at the right time. There’s some powerful stories in here!

My favorite stories are:
When Cupid is a prying journalist
Truly, madly, guilty
You may want to marry my husband
When the doorman is your main man

If you watched the tv show I definitely still recommend reading it, there’s so many more amazing stories in the book!