serialreaderk 's review for:

Modern Love, Revised and Updated: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption by Daniel Jones, Andrew Rannells, Veronica Chambers, Ayelet Waldman, Amy Krouse Rosenthal

4.0

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A long time back I was really drawn into these "Chicken soup for the teenage souls" series which spoke about the ups and downs of life as experienced by differnt contributors. "Modern Love" follows the same path talking about love seen in it's various forms by contributors during various times of their life. The book fascinated me due to the Netflix series last year- I decided to push back reading it since the series was so well etched in my mind. The book though is a triumph in portions and fizzles outin others. It's a collection of essays published as New York Times columns and the author compiles them and breaks them into 4 sections- Somewhere out there, I think I love you, Holding on Through the curves and Family Matters. These are real life stories so whatever be it's ups or downs, be it pacing in portions or maybe unrelatable at times, I am sure everyone would come out of it with a story which they would carry for a long time. A story which would have touch the right chords. Possibly that's where the book works. My favorites "When Eve and Eve bit the Apple", "Would My Heart outrun it's pursuer?", "You may want to marry my Husband", "DJ's Homeless Mummy", "Rallying to keep the game alive", "Adolescence, without a Roadmap" and possibly favorite for a lot of reviewers "When the Dooran is your Main Man". Overall a must read.