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Modern Love, Revised and Updated: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption
Daniel Jones
4.11 AVERAGE
543 reviews for:
Modern Love, Revised and Updated: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption
Daniel Jones
4.11 AVERAGE
Living in the Midwest and not being a regular customer of the NYT, I had no idea that Modern Love was a column. But now that I do, I'll probably try to read it as often as possible. This collection of essays covers the very vast and malleable definition of what it means to love. There's platonic love, romantic love, unrequited love, love in the face of adversity, the ways that love can break us down and build us up. How we can still learn things, still find magic in relationships, after years of being together. The need, or lack of a need, to put a name to what you feel. How meeting and falling in love has changed over time (dating apps vs meeting out in the world). The ways love scares us, sometimes forces us to give up the things we love most because it hurts less than having that love taken from you. Finding love later in life, or after divorce. Love across boundaries: distance, physical ability, religious beliefs. That ultimately love is painful and joyous and something to be cherished, because love is a lot of things, but it isn't promised. I think this quote from Veronica Chambers' essay, "Loved and Lost? It's Okay, Especially if You Win" sums this book up nicely:
"Making a fool of yourself for love is ultimately about you, about how much you have to give and the distances you will travel to keep your heart wide open when everything around you makes you feel like slamming it shut and soldering it closed."
In a world that's become more visibly heartless, sometimes we need a book like this to remind us that we're not alone, and that love still exists and is something worth fighting for.
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"Making a fool of yourself for love is ultimately about you, about how much you have to give and the distances you will travel to keep your heart wide open when everything around you makes you feel like slamming it shut and soldering it closed."
In a world that's become more visibly heartless, sometimes we need a book like this to remind us that we're not alone, and that love still exists and is something worth fighting for.
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I was introduced to this book after almost a year of being a fan of the podcast. I'm super ready to start watching the show soon!
Some of the stories I really really loved from this collection of stories of platonic / romantic / familial love:
When Cupid is a Prying Journalist
Hear that Wedding March Often Enough, You Fall in Step
The Race Grows Sweeter Near its Final Lap
When Eve and Eve Bit the Apple
Truly, Madly, Guiltily
You May Want to Marry My Husband (the husband replies to this letter too, it's available on the podcast!)
Now I Need a Place to Hide Away
My Husband is Now My Wife
When Mr. Reliable becomes Mr. Needy
When Mom is on the Scent, and Right
Some of the stories I really really loved from this collection of stories of platonic / romantic / familial love:
When Cupid is a Prying Journalist
Hear that Wedding March Often Enough, You Fall in Step
The Race Grows Sweeter Near its Final Lap
When Eve and Eve Bit the Apple
Truly, Madly, Guiltily
You May Want to Marry My Husband (the husband replies to this letter too, it's available on the podcast!)
Now I Need a Place to Hide Away
My Husband is Now My Wife
When Mr. Reliable becomes Mr. Needy
When Mom is on the Scent, and Right
#partner | I had never heard of Modern Love - the NYT column that so many adore - until I picked up this book.
The short story collects are delightful and it was the perfect “feel good” thing to read just before I went to sleep every night.
I especially enjoyed: Hear That Wedding, The Race Grows Sweeter, Loved and Lost?, When Eve and Eve, You May Want to Marry My Husband, DJ’s HomelessMommy, and Take Me As I Am.
The short story collects are delightful and it was the perfect “feel good” thing to read just before I went to sleep every night.
I especially enjoyed: Hear That Wedding, The Race Grows Sweeter, Loved and Lost?, When Eve and Eve, You May Want to Marry My Husband, DJ’s HomelessMommy, and Take Me As I Am.
A collection of essays from a long-running column documenting what love looks like in real life, rather than in media depictions of romance. These submissions cover a range of situations and viewpoints, and yet I found many of them forgettable. The handful that stuck with me with were either emotional ones about loss or the less traditional love stories, and I wish there had been more of the latter.
i picked this book on a complete whim while browsing at my bookstore the saturday morning before last. i liked that it was pink and i liked that it was a collection by many writers. i've been having a hard time reading anything other than the temeraire series this summer (lmao) between starting a new job and moving and figured this would be a cute, easy read. oh was i wrong. it was neither cute nor easy but utterly devastating. it made me cry several times and reminded me distinctly that life is fragile and uncertain. it made me want to hold my husband and not let him go for the next 40 years.
my favorites were probably "sleeping with the guitar player," "truly, madly, guiltily," and the entire last section!
my favorites were probably "sleeping with the guitar player," "truly, madly, guiltily," and the entire last section!
This book is like a short story collection, except the stories are true and they are all about love. There is a podcast by the same name and if you like that you will like this book. All the stores are submitted to the New York Times, which curates them. Naturally, I related to some stories more that others but in general I find people's lives interesting so I enjoyed the book.
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
emotional
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
I was introduced to this book after almost a year of being a fan of the podcast. I'm super ready to start watching the show soon!
Some of the stories I really really loved from this collection of stories of platonic / romantic / familial love:
When Cupid is a Prying Journalist
Hear that Wedding March Often Enough, You Fall in Step
The Race Grows Sweeter Near its Final Lap
When Eve and Eve Bit the Apple
Truly, Madly, Guiltily
You May Want to Marry My Husband (the husband replies to this letter too, it's available on the podcast!)
Now I Need a Place to Hide Away
My Husband is Now My Wife
When Mr. Reliable becomes Mr. Needy
When Mom is on the Scent, and Right
Some of the stories I really really loved from this collection of stories of platonic / romantic / familial love:
When Cupid is a Prying Journalist
Hear that Wedding March Often Enough, You Fall in Step
The Race Grows Sweeter Near its Final Lap
When Eve and Eve Bit the Apple
Truly, Madly, Guiltily
You May Want to Marry My Husband (the husband replies to this letter too, it's available on the podcast!)
Now I Need a Place to Hide Away
My Husband is Now My Wife
When Mr. Reliable becomes Mr. Needy
When Mom is on the Scent, and Right
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
There is something for everyone in this book: are you in the mood to cry at the sheer realization that your perspective of love at a mere 24 years of age is so limited and short-sighted when compared to the love experienced by someone 3x your age? Or to read about someone else's experiences that are uncannily similar to your own, yet articulated in a way more beautiful than you probably could ever muster? To laugh about the cringe-worthy moments that people will inevitably experience on their way to "the one"? To feel so connected to the human race's underlying and unifying desire to simply love and be loved, which, ultimately, transcends the factors that separate us? To marvel at the resiliency of humans in the face of heartbreak and, simultaneously, the natural ebb and flow of love--romantic or otherwise--between individuals?
Then yeah, this book is perfect for you. I wish I wouldn't have read this straight through, but picked it up sporadically over the course of months so I could savor every entry.
Then yeah, this book is perfect for you. I wish I wouldn't have read this straight through, but picked it up sporadically over the course of months so I could savor every entry.