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Why We Need Love
Vital insights and wisdom on the perennial question of why we need love
This book explores how some of the greatest minds of civilization have tackled a question that continues to play a vital part in our lives today. In Why We Need Love, Simon Van Booy curates an enlightening collection of excerpts, passages, and paintings, presenting works by Geoffrey Chaucer, William Sha...more
This book explores how some of the greatest minds of civilization have tackled a question that continues to play a vital part in our lives today. In Why We Need Love, Simon Van Booy curates an enlightening collection of excerpts, passages, and paintings, presenting works by Geoffrey Chaucer, William Sha...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
August 24th 2010
by Harper Perennial
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I usually don’t start a review with a criticism but in this case I will.
Simon, why after your excellent introduction, did you start this collection with Silas Marner? I was made to read the book at school and I although I remember I didn’t enjoy it, I decided I would read the excerpt again. Gosh it dragged! I read this book on my iphone so the “book” wasn’t actually put aside but my kindle wasn’t opened again for weeks!
After I finally struggled through Silas Marner I came to Adrian Henri’s stir...more
Simon, why after your excellent introduction, did you start this collection with Silas Marner? I was made to read the book at school and I although I remember I didn’t enjoy it, I decided I would read the excerpt again. Gosh it dragged! I read this book on my iphone so the “book” wasn’t actually put aside but my kindle wasn’t opened again for weeks!
After I finally struggled through Silas Marner I came to Adrian Henri’s stir...more
The pace was a bit uneven -- too much Krishnamurti, not enough Thich Nhat Hanh. Still, it's an overview, and the idea is to inspire the reader to explore or revisit, so it's hard to be too critical. Why haven't I read more Willa Cather? "Paul's Case" was something I should have read in high school, but I'm happy to get to it now.
Why We Need Love not only shows you how people have viewed love over time, but it will illuminate (or perhaps darken) your own beliefs about love, by using works about evolution, loneliness, erotic love, and maternal and brotherly love. In this collection, you’ll find the inspiring works of Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, John Donne, William Blake, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, O. Henry, W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, E. E. Cummings, Anais Nin, Marc Chagall, J. Krishnamurti, and others. As I...more
Full review at Glorified Love Letters.
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Simon Van Booy was born in London and grew up in rural Wales and Oxford. After playing football in Kentucky, he lived in Paris and Athens. In 2002 he was awarded an MFA and won the H.R. Hays Poetry Prize. His journalism has appeared in magazines and newspapers including the New York Times and the New York Post. Van Booy is the author of The Secret Lives of People in Love, now translated into sever...more
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