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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
DNF @ 64%
I really wanted to like this. The Amazon Prime TV show adaptation of this book/the actual NYT column has been recommended to me several times, so, true to form, I wanted to read the book first. My general thoughts about it are that I think I would enjoy this in a TV show wayyy more than in a book. I didn't like several of the stories (mainly because I did NOT agree with anything the people did or stood for) and I just had no skin in the game, as it were. I think this short story format is best suited for the small screen, not a book format. After a while, I got very tired of reading these stories and just decided that, for my own sake, I would DNF this sucker and move on.
I really wanted to like this. The Amazon Prime TV show adaptation of this book/the actual NYT column has been recommended to me several times, so, true to form, I wanted to read the book first. My general thoughts about it are that I think I would enjoy this in a TV show wayyy more than in a book. I didn't like several of the stories (mainly because I did NOT agree with anything the people did or stood for) and I just had no skin in the game, as it were. I think this short story format is best suited for the small screen, not a book format. After a while, I got very tired of reading these stories and just decided that, for my own sake, I would DNF this sucker and move on.
Love sure is a complicated and messy and beautiful thing. This was such a wonderful collection of essays -- and a good encouragement to read and listen to the NYTimes column and podcast more regularly!
Favorites, for record-keeping, include: The Race Grows Sweeter...; When Eve and Eve Bit the Apple; You May Want to Marry My Husband; Something Like Motherhood; Now I Need a Place to Hide Away, and Just Holding on through the Curves.
Good stuff.
Favorites, for record-keeping, include: The Race Grows Sweeter...; When Eve and Eve Bit the Apple; You May Want to Marry My Husband; Something Like Motherhood; Now I Need a Place to Hide Away, and Just Holding on through the Curves.
Good stuff.
emotional
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced