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On Love | 
so-soHmm, this is a tough one to rate. There were brilliant, insightful sensitive observations on love but there were also some that I found problematic. There's a conflation of love with desire is too direct for me and I baulk at the idea that "few things are more antithetical to sex as thought", all manner of problems stem from such thoughts. An interesting and honest read nonetheless.
Colette once said, “he who is loved doubts nothing and he who loves doubts everything”
This book is unique in that every chapter reminds me of some part of my own love story. And that is the novelty of this book (no pun intended) and it provides insights on the matters not readily clear to us. Matters of the heart.
pickI'm not sure how to rate this one. Couched as a novel, it read more like a philosophy book on love. Botton had me thinking about the nature of love, but at the same time I found the book to be a little dry and woundup skimming, perhaps as much as a quarter of it. Still, there were plenty of instances where I'd stop to read something aloud to my husband.
Trying desperately to find a book that will ease me back into reading. I enjoyed his book 'The Consolations of Philosophy' & loved hearing him talk about love so hopefully this book will be as good as his lectures.
I have four books I‘ considering, so please let me know if you have read one or if you are strongly in favour of one.
Iris Murdoch, A severed Head; Alain de Botton, on Love ; Tessa De Loo, The Twins and F. Dürrenmatt, the Judge and his Hangman
@Sarah83 @tricours @BarbaraBB
A man and a woman falls in love. The book charts the course of their love from the time they meet on a flight until the time they fall out of love. The first meeting, the mutual attraction, the first date, the intricacy of romance. Is it love, or desire? Writing with the philosopher insight as the author always does, he uncovers the mysteries of the human heart.
#fiercefeb #isthisdesire @Cinfhen @batsy
pickThe first book I'd read by a man in a while. I read it on the plane to Tanzania and while on holiday, and I enjoyed it. Partly because at the time I felt a bit like I was at the start of something with a man, and the essays resonated, made me smile, laugh, worry, wonder, hope. It didn't work out, but I'd still recommend this book- almost as a supplement to Animal, it's a philosophical rather than physiological approach to love. Kindle read.
Hi, Littens! Episode 5 of #MyWeekInTinder is now available. It even features a shout out to #24in48 and book quotes (!) from Alain de Botton's On Love, Mindy Kaling's Why Not Me?, and Aziz Ansari's Modern Romance.
This episode also includes mansplaining via Bumble (isn't that app supposed to empower women?), a ghost of Tinder Past, and more.
iTunes: http://apple.co/2kDtHGI
Stitcher: http://bit.ly/2jHwgJl
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pickWhat an appropriate quote! Definitely feeling some "unfinished business," but I'm not going to be too hard on myself. This is, after all, the fifth book I read for #24in48
And what a book! Definitely not for everyone--it's a bit philosophically heavy-handed/pretentious and a somewhat self-indulgent exploration of heteronormative love from the perspective of a cisgender white male in his early 20s. Still: rather beautifully written.
I clocked in some more time for #24in48 (I probably won't even hit 12 hours, honestly) listening to Mindy Kaling's Why Not Me? while I got dressed/cleaned up.
It's pretty warm here for January, so I'm sitting on the deck and about to dive back into On Love, which is so beautifully written that I'm picking up my pen to make notes almost every other page.
I didn't think I'd be able to put together a #rainbowstack for Hour 30 of @24in48 because I'm waiting for Fresh Direct, but I managed!
#loveislove #24in48 #readathon
I had been enjoying this book well enough so far, but mention solipsism and I'm yours forever.
#24in48 #readathon
We now return to our regularly scheduled #24in48 programming. #readathon
Gearing up for my next print read for #24in48. Which of these should I start with?
You can also vote on Twitter here: http://bit.ly/2jCNje7
pickA compelling read that takes a relationship from start to finish all the while looking at it philosophically. I came very close to loving this book, but most of the scenes between the narrator and Chloe really dragged for me. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickAlain de Botton gives a commentary on what runs through a person's mind when they enter a relationship, while they are in a relationship, and what they go through when it ends. I could not put the book down because I found his observations funny, and relating to it being an over-thinker myself.
Today's #bookhaul courtesy of @bookculture.
This book is great, I am reading its persian translation.
" عشق هرگز يك فرض مسلم نيست،بلكه بر اقتضاي شرايط جوامع گوناگون ساخته و معني مي شود. حداقل در يك جامعه،در قبيله مانوهاي گينه نو، براي عشق حتي واژه اي هم وجود ندارد."
"Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying. In essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved."
