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A review by gnomescottage
How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance by Marilyn Yalom
3.0
I've been an anglophile since I discovered Jane Austen in junior high and I studied English Lit in college (English Lit with emphasis on the English). I haven't read much French literature and so was complete clueless about most of the works mentioned in How the French Invented Love. Still, I found Yalom's study of both culture and literature to be interesting and enlightening.
I really enjoyed the first half of the book, but after about 200 pages, my enthusiam began to lag. Maybe this was because I plowed through Yalom's book in two days. Maybe it was because I have yet to read any of the books mentioned in the second half. Either way, to me it lost some of its charm during the last 150+ pages.
I really enjoyed the first half of the book, but after about 200 pages, my enthusiam began to lag. Maybe this was because I plowed through Yalom's book in two days. Maybe it was because I have yet to read any of the books mentioned in the second half. Either way, to me it lost some of its charm during the last 150+ pages.