Editor Daniel Jones has arranged these tales to capture the ebb and flow of relationships, from seeking love and tying the knot to having children and finding love that endures.(Cynics and melancholics can skip right to the section on splitting up.) Taken together, these essays show through a modern lens how love drives, haunts, and enriches us.I contemplated a 3 or 4 star rating due to the majority sadness that prevails most of the book (this is not an uplifting read) but then I began to think about the human journey and how in reality it is riddled with endings and beginnings just like the book as after all it is all about the journey and not the destination right?
For anyone who’s loved, lost, stalked an ex, or made a lasting connection, and for the voyeur in all of us, Modern Love is the perfect match.
I loved about a fourth of the essays in this book, liked about half, and hated a fourth.
The final essay in the collection deals with hope and new beginnings, but it wasn't enough to shake the feelinsg from the pages and pages of sad stories from before.
I would have much preferred the essays be mixed up and not categorized so sharply.
One last observation: this is a very New Yorky book.
It's a collection of essays from the New York Times, so that's an obvious statement, but be warned: the New Yorkyness may irritate you (as it did me) if you don't live there or put the city on a pedestal.
The stories are newspaper-short, so if you only have 10 minutes to knock out a few pages, you can still feel like you've accomplished something.
Kate Wolf, the west coast folksinger, wrote this lyric: “Give yourself to love, if love is what you’re after, open up your heart to, the tears and laughter.” And this is just what we do and what this book is about.
Because the predictably depressing "leaving" c I loved about a fourth of the essays in this book, liked about half, and hated a fourth.
Because the predictably depressing "leaving" chapter is near the end and the collection closes with the equaly sad "bound" chapter, it's hard to recall the joys of some of the earlier essays that discuss the triumphs of love.
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