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If you are like me who lives outside if the US and basically under a rock, the New York Times does a column called Modern Love. The book Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss and Redemption is a collection of the some of the best essays that appeared in the column over the last ten years. This is an insanely cohesive, well put together collection of essays that explores modern love in the most hilarious, deeply personal, moving, vulnerable, and heartfelt way. I could not have enough of this collection- I found myself crying at the end of some of these essays and it was beautiful!
Modern Love... what does that even mean? Well, in this collection we are privy to all the various types of love and I think that is exactly what I loved about it. We see love explored in all its various forms, from young love, parental love, sibling love, gay love, redemptive love etc. There are so many different essays that I read and it really spoke to me on a deep level. Some of these essays captured what it is like for millennials dating and trying to find love and for me, it really helps to see I am not alone.
Majority of these essays I lovr but my favorites were:
Uh, Honey, That's Not Your Line
The Five Stages of Ghosting Grief
For Best Hookup Results, Use Your Words, Ok?
When Cupid Is A Prying Journalist
Hear That Wedding March Often Enough, You Fall in Step
When Eve and Eve Bit the Apple
Truly, Madly Guilty
You May Want to Marry My Husband
Adolescence without a Roadmap
Something Like Motherhood
I loved how vulnerable and open these essays were, from the women freaking out and trying not to stare at her phone after sending a sexy message to a guy she recently met who might have ghosted her. To the woman admitting that she loves her husband more than her kids (yes! you read that right!). To the mother trying to guide her autistic son to love because, adolescence is hard as it is. To the woman serving in church and being excommunicated from said church after falling in love with another woman.... y'all- these essays are profound and deeply moving.
If you are looking for a great collection on love- THIS IS IT!!!!
Thanks Penguin RandomHouse for this copy!
Modern Love... what does that even mean? Well, in this collection we are privy to all the various types of love and I think that is exactly what I loved about it. We see love explored in all its various forms, from young love, parental love, sibling love, gay love, redemptive love etc. There are so many different essays that I read and it really spoke to me on a deep level. Some of these essays captured what it is like for millennials dating and trying to find love and for me, it really helps to see I am not alone.
Majority of these essays I lovr but my favorites were:
Uh, Honey, That's Not Your Line
The Five Stages of Ghosting Grief
For Best Hookup Results, Use Your Words, Ok?
When Cupid Is A Prying Journalist
Hear That Wedding March Often Enough, You Fall in Step
When Eve and Eve Bit the Apple
Truly, Madly Guilty
You May Want to Marry My Husband
Adolescence without a Roadmap
Something Like Motherhood
I loved how vulnerable and open these essays were, from the women freaking out and trying not to stare at her phone after sending a sexy message to a guy she recently met who might have ghosted her. To the woman admitting that she loves her husband more than her kids (yes! you read that right!). To the mother trying to guide her autistic son to love because, adolescence is hard as it is. To the woman serving in church and being excommunicated from said church after falling in love with another woman.... y'all- these essays are profound and deeply moving.
If you are looking for a great collection on love- THIS IS IT!!!!
Thanks Penguin RandomHouse for this copy!