In honor of our day of matrimony, I'm dedicating this blog to three books that make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside or make me yearn for love. Actually, now that I think about it, all three books have an element of unrequited love or a love that cannot materialize due to circumstances.
1) The Time Traveler's Wife: It's set in Chicago from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. What can you not love about that? As the title suggests, there is a little bit of time traveling involved (don't take it literally...just enjoy the story). 
While reading this book, I imagined the author's storyboard being a bunch of different colored post-it notes all over her house. This author seriously had to be able to keep things very, very organized to pull this book off.2) History of Love: It just made my heart ache.
The writing is stylized, different. It's much in the same vain as Jonathan Safran Foer- probably because Foer and Krauss are husband and wife. It's a book of love that goes through generations and countries. Really, any story involving an old love through time just gets to me.3) Unaccustomed Earth: Just finished this one. It's typically Jhumpa Lahiri- meaning that the writing is BEAUTIFUL. Even though it is a series of short stories, the stories actually flow with one another. The book impacted me even as I finished it and just laid in bed trying to sleep. I kept thinking about it...and still do. The kind of books that make you think after you close the cover are the kinds I love.
So, there you go. Three books of love that make my heart ache.
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I too loved the history of love!
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