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May Reading Challenge: Love and Freindship (and other early works)
First of all, I can’t tell you how excited I am to see the movie adaptation of Jane Austen’s Love and Freindship. If it is playing in a city near you, please go see it. It may come to a movie theater near me in 6 months if it does at all, so hopefully it goes to DVD or Netflix. Although, does it bother anyone else that “Friendship” is spelled correctly in the movie title? Usually, a spelling correction would bring me extreme delight, but here, it rubs me slightly the wrong way. While I continue to turn that over in my mind, I’ll share with you my thoughts and…
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Magic of Love
From middle school crushes to high school flings to long term relationships, [romantic] love has never meant the same thing to me. A rush; an obsession; dependence; passion; companionship. It’s never the same and yet, that four letter word is usually applied. To truly find its meaning, you can look to the dictionary but that surely does not do love justice. You can look to others in love, and make a list of the things you like and don’t like; admire and detest. You can watch the most classic romantic movies, read the most classic love stories, and seek out exactly the right characteristics that you experience through fiction. But…
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January Reading Challenge: Modern Romance
Like a cold beer from a newly discovered microbrewery, I had such high hopes for Aziz Ansari’s co-authored book about romance in the modern age. And, like a new-to-me IPA, I kept diving into the book hoping it would grow on me, but for the most part, I experienced, or tasted, disappointment. I will continue trying IPAs, but sadly, I don’t think I will read Modern Romance again, and not just because surely by now there are more updated data on the facets of dating Ansari and sociologist Eric Klinenberg covered. While I expected a few humorous moments to be sprinkled throughout the text, those moments never seemed to be…
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