7 Books to Read With a Broken Heart
Toss out the Kleenex and sad, terry-cloth bathrobe. There's no
blow in life that just the right book can't help you recover from...
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Love Illuminated: Exploring Life's Most Mystifying Subject (with the Help of 50,000 Strangers)
By Daniel Jones
229 pages;
William Morrow
To Help You Recognize: You're So Not Alone
As editor of
The New York Times' "Modern
Love" column, Daniel Jones has nine years of experience in others' love
and loss and, in this engaging summary of his findings, he examines all the
different forms our search for happiness with another human being can take.
Skip the bits about the lucky few with destruction-proof relationships, and focus on the much more common tales of
misunderstanding, wasted effort, downright deception and sheer bad luck—some of which manage to work out in the end! One
of Jones' best insights: "Vulnerability is what love is all about...Only
when we open ourselves to the possibility of loss can we allow for the
possibility of love."
— Susan Welsh
Published 05/16/2014
