What is your book-of-love style? Poetry? Movie? Music? Memoir? Wisdom? Operations manual? When thoughts turn to love, seek out the right read to suit your style. This week’s Book Buzz offers a small sampling of non-fiction books that reveals the
What is your book-of-love style? Poetry? Movie? Music? Memoir? Wisdom? Operations manual? When thoughts turn to love, seek out the right read to suit your style. This week’s Book Buzz offers a small sampling of non-fiction books that reveals the broad spectrum of informational material available at your local library. It’s all there.
A Guy’s Guide to Dating, Getting Hitched and Surviving the First Year of Marriage
By Michael R. Crider
306.81081
This book is comical and witty, and offers honest advice to the hapless, love-lost guy in every man. Crider shares anecdotes from his own life.
I Lost My Love in Baghdad
A Modern War Story
By Michael Hastings
956.70443 Ha
In his powerful debut, a young Newsweek reporter details two tumultuous years covering the war while falling in love with his long-distance girlfriend Andi, who would join him in Iraq only to be killed in a botched kidnapping. This is what really happens when love, youth, and innocence descend into the abyss of death and devastation that is Iraq.
The 100 Best Love Poems of All Time
Edited by Leslie Pockell
811.00803 On
An anthology of the best love poems written by poets who range throughout the history of literature. Each poem features a brief introduction, which details the poet’s life history as well as the poem’s significance.
The Love Dare
By Stephen Kendrick
242.6 Ke
As featured in the popular new movie Fireproof, The Love Dare is a 40-day guided devotional experience that will lead your heart back to truly loving your spouse while learning more about the design, nature, and source of true love. Each reading includes Scripture, a statement of principle, and the day’s “dare.”
Love Letters of Great Men From the Eighteenth Century to the Present
By C.H. Charles, Ph.D.
808.86935 Lo
A must read for all those longing for love or searching for the right words to say. Originally published in 1924, this classic collection of love letters includes timeless contributions from the likes of Beethoven, Keats, Lord Byron, Napoleon, Voltaire, Rousseau and Mozart, among many others.
My Dearest Friend
Letters of Abigail and John Adams
By John Adams
973.44092 Ad
The most comprehensive edition of letters between two extremely lively writers, America’s second president and his wife. Both Abigail and John Adams decried long separations during their marriage (while acknowledging them as necessary for the greater public good), but the unintended legacy of such trials were the thoughtful, loving, and literate letters exchanged by the couple that open a window on the birth and early years of our republic … This is a treasure.
Project Everlasting
By Mathew Boggs
and Jason Miller
306.85 Bo
Mat talked his best friend, Jason Miller, a clueless commitmentphobe, into joining him on a cross-country search for America’s greatest marriages, which they called “Project Everlasting.” They share their wisdom; not from Ph.D.s or therapists but from more than 200 real couples who had walked the walk to more than forty years of marriage.
• Carolyn Larson is head librarian at Lihu‘e Public Library. Her weekly Wednesday column brings you the buzz on new, popular and good books available at your neighborhood library.
