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treehuggeravl 's review for:
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
by Jan-Philipp Sendker
This book was excellent! I have some favorite quotes:
"Why? Love has so many different faces that our imagination is not prepared to see them all."
"Why does it have to be so difficult?"
"Because we see only what we already know. We project our own capacities - for good as well as evil- onto the other person. Then we acknowledge as love primarily those things that correspond to our own image thereof. We wish to be loved as we ourselves would love. Any other way makes us uncomfortable. We respond with doubt and suspicion. We misinterpret the signs. We do not understand the language. We accuse. We assert that the other person does not love us."
It was interesting to come across this quote while reading this gem of a novel on our annual girls' beach week. We had all recently been talking about the 5 love languages (which I have not read), and that may be why this really caught my eye.
Overall, the novel has a lyrical, fairy tale feeling to it that I really enjoyed. The main female character was not very likable, nor was she very relatable - perhaps this was intentional? So as not to distract the reader's attention from the flashback story? I don't know.
It was an emotional enough book that I had a lot of emotion when I finished reading it, and had to wait a few days to start another book. But, it was a good enough book that I did INDEED unplug from the internet and start another book..which I've been pretty lousy at lately. Only didn't get 5 starts because of the really poor characterization of the "modern" character.
"Why? Love has so many different faces that our imagination is not prepared to see them all."
"Why does it have to be so difficult?"
"Because we see only what we already know. We project our own capacities - for good as well as evil- onto the other person. Then we acknowledge as love primarily those things that correspond to our own image thereof. We wish to be loved as we ourselves would love. Any other way makes us uncomfortable. We respond with doubt and suspicion. We misinterpret the signs. We do not understand the language. We accuse. We assert that the other person does not love us."
It was interesting to come across this quote while reading this gem of a novel on our annual girls' beach week. We had all recently been talking about the 5 love languages (which I have not read), and that may be why this really caught my eye.
Overall, the novel has a lyrical, fairy tale feeling to it that I really enjoyed. The main female character was not very likable, nor was she very relatable - perhaps this was intentional? So as not to distract the reader's attention from the flashback story? I don't know.
It was an emotional enough book that I had a lot of emotion when I finished reading it, and had to wait a few days to start another book. But, it was a good enough book that I did INDEED unplug from the internet and start another book..which I've been pretty lousy at lately. Only didn't get 5 starts because of the really poor characterization of the "modern" character.