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A review by sebby_reads
Modern Love, Revised and Updated: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption by Daniel Jones
4.0
This book has been in my iPad for past six months but I only finished reading it last month. I only read it after watching the web series adaptation of the book. I was totally in love with it as each episode explores our modern day love in various forms. All are true stories written and submitted to the New York Times for its weekly column, Modern Love. The book came out last year with the introduction by the column editor, Daniel Jones.
I love what Daniel Jones mentioned in his introduction. “Vulnerability is the animating quality of all love stories, and it can take many forms. In every case, though, vulnerability means exposing ourselves to the possibility of loss, but also—crucially!—to the possibility of connection. You can’t have one with out other. The stakes vary, of course, from dipping one’s toe in the water to taking a blind dive from a high cliff.”
All essays have interpreted love in their individual way. They all are not just romantic love, there are stories about love between parents and children, between best friends, between high school sweethearts to old age lovers, too. The stories don’t limit themselves with all about love, either. As the title suggests, there are stories telling the aching loss of the loved ones, the trials of midlife marriage.
Modern Love has four main chapters : (1) Somewhere Out There, (2) I Think I Love You, (3) Holding on Through the Curves, and (4) Family Matters. Each chapter contains about 10 brilliant stories and you would be delighted to know how simple these stories are as well as surprised to find out how you can totally relate to many of these. We all may be loving in different parts of the world, but when it comes to love, what we feel are almost the same with anyone around the world. I’d rate 4 out of 5.
After finishing the book, I continue to follow up on these stories. I’ve been listening to the Modern Love podcast on Spotify. Every week, a celebrity read a story and it ended with a brief interview with the original writer and the reader, as well.
I love what Daniel Jones mentioned in his introduction. “Vulnerability is the animating quality of all love stories, and it can take many forms. In every case, though, vulnerability means exposing ourselves to the possibility of loss, but also—crucially!—to the possibility of connection. You can’t have one with out other. The stakes vary, of course, from dipping one’s toe in the water to taking a blind dive from a high cliff.”
All essays have interpreted love in their individual way. They all are not just romantic love, there are stories about love between parents and children, between best friends, between high school sweethearts to old age lovers, too. The stories don’t limit themselves with all about love, either. As the title suggests, there are stories telling the aching loss of the loved ones, the trials of midlife marriage.
Modern Love has four main chapters : (1) Somewhere Out There, (2) I Think I Love You, (3) Holding on Through the Curves, and (4) Family Matters. Each chapter contains about 10 brilliant stories and you would be delighted to know how simple these stories are as well as surprised to find out how you can totally relate to many of these. We all may be loving in different parts of the world, but when it comes to love, what we feel are almost the same with anyone around the world. I’d rate 4 out of 5.
After finishing the book, I continue to follow up on these stories. I’ve been listening to the Modern Love podcast on Spotify. Every week, a celebrity read a story and it ended with a brief interview with the original writer and the reader, as well.