29 - a book with "love" in the title

[Karen]

I’ve put Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford. I’ve loved his other books.

[Janet]

Just finished The Hypnotist's Love Story by Liane Moriarty for this prompt. Enjoyable - and quick - read.

[Mary Lee]

I am reading It would also count as a book by a musician

[☕️Hélène⚜️]

For the 29 “love” in the title I chooses to start Songs of Love and War by Santa Montefiore. Will let you all know how it goes!

[Brittani]

I read Zak George's Dog Training Revolution: The Complete Guide to Raising the Perfect Pet with Love for this one

[Jennifer]

Enduring Love by Ian McEwan would have been my pick for this if I had not already read and loved it.

[Alix]

I'm doing From Lukov with Love it's been on my TBR list for a while!

[Staczy]

The Four Noble Truths of Love

[Doris]

I used They Loved to Laugh for this one but I've also just finished Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, which would also count.

[Nicole]

I've been wanting to read Eat, Pray, Love for awhile .. perfect timing!

[Elaine]

I read The Five Love Languagesby Gary Chapman, which was Ok.

[Nancy]

I read To All the Boys I've Loved Before and Love Warrior for this prompt.

[Yoo]

On a whim purchased Love Always from a Kindle sale for this prompt as I thought it sounded promising and more than chick lit *sigh* regretting it now. Was very meh! Too long and a predictable 'dark family secret'. Everything I didn't want from this prompt 😂

[L Y N N]

Just finished The Atomic Weight of Love which I'm sure will prove to be a favorite read for this year and perhaps for all time! I would gladly have awarded it 10 stars if I could! Definitely plan to read All The Beautiful Girls, her second book which was released last year!

[Drakeryn]

Derick wrote: "LOVECRAFT COUNTRY works here as well! It’s been on my list for awhile and the HBO series comes out in 2019."

oooh, nice one! I'll probably go for this since my TBR is apparently devoid of love.

[KF-in-Georgia]

I read the quite short satire Love and Friendship by a teenaged Jane Austen (although she spelled it "Freindship").

It probably says something about my own love life that books I have with "love" in the title are all satires.

[Kira]

Think I'm gonna go with The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali for this one.

[Jess]

I read Love in the Time of Cholera for this and it was fantastic. My first 5 star review of the year.

[MadAliceMe]

Kenya wrote: "Geek Love, which I'm hoping is as good as it looks..."

I guess a lot of people really hate this book. However, I loved, loved, loved it!!

[Becky]

I chose to read Eat, Pray, Love for this topic. It was pretty good. I enjoyed reading about her time in Italy and India more than the part on Indonesia though... it felt like she got tired of writing towards the end of the book. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I had never seen the movie either, so I rented that to watch on Valentine’s Day. I’ve always enjoyed movies with Julia Roberts.

[Ian]

I read To All the Boys I've Loved Before for the group read, and I loved it. Could not recommend any more highly if I wanted to.

[Errlee]

I read Stephen King's The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon for this one. I thought it was quite different from a lot of his books - much more subtly creepy than some of his more overt horror books. It was a good fairly quick read.

[Dawn]

Toni Morrison's Love

[SadieReadsAgain]

I read I Loved You All, by Paula Sharp for this.

I bought this book a long time ago, and like many others it has sat on my shelves since then - not a reflection of the book, I just get distracted by new and shiny things and my reading hasn't always been as voracious as it now is. When I bought this I was keen to read books with abortion in the plot, as I was fairly new to the debate and keen to have my two passions of reading and reproductive freedom come together. I am still very much of that mind, and I wish I'd read this back then instead of letting it languish on my bookcase.

The characters in this novel are what really sold it to me. Penny, the narrator who recalls the happenings of the summer when she was 8, is perfect. She is wild but observant, and tells the story as she saw it, but with touches of hindsight from her older perspective. Her innocence adds a level of compassion, particularly to the fanatical anti-choice Isobel, that my reading and personal opinion benefitted from. To begin with, I was wanting a more abhorrent character than Isobel, as I wanted someone I could be angry at. I also wanted a more dramatic storyline. I'm glad now that I didn't get that. The mixed feelings towards Isobel that the rest of the well-rounded cast hold mirrored my own and made this book a really rich experience. And the smaller scale of the anti-choice actions meant that this story didn't depend on sensationalism or exploitation to make its point.

Given the subjects of parental alcoholism, religious fanaticism and abortion, this novel is actually quite gentle in many ways. It strives for balance whilst making a powerful statement about self-righteousness and the danger of patriarchal involvement in the reproductive choice debate.

[Sophie]

I can't decide whether to read To All the Boys I've Loved Before, The Hypnotist's Love Story or Love, Life, and the List

[Teri]

Sophie wrote: "I can't decide whether to read To All the Boys I've Loved Before, The Hypnotist's Love Story or Love, Life, and the List"

The first one is a cute YA romance. The second one is from one of my favorite authors and it is terrific as long as you are not triggered by stalking. No clue about the third one. I would recommend going with The Hypnotist's Love Story as I loved it much more than To All the Boys I've Loved Before - but you wouldn't go wrong there either.

[Sophie]

Thanks for the recommendation Teri. To be honest it will probably come down to which is the most easily accessible at the library or on my Kindle!

[Colleen]

How about Love & Treasure I don't think it's romance .

[Sylvia]

I too read The girl who loved Tom Gordon by Stephen king it was a very good story. I don’t like when bad things happen to children but this was an easy read and creepy in a way that it could happen.

[Diana]

For those looking to read something that coincides with Women's History Month, there's The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies. It's about cryptography pioneer Elizebeth Friedman and how she caught smugglers and Nazis. I read Code Girls and it touched on her a little bit, so I'm interested to read more about her.

[Norpio☽✧]

I read "Ugly Love" by Colleen Hoover which turned out to be my least favorite CoHo book but still glad i read it <3

[Sherri]

I read Eat Live Love Die: Selected Essays by Betty Fussell. It also works for a book about family.

[Anna]

I just finished Love You Hard by Abby Maslin. I couldn’t put it down - finished it in one day with tears streaming down my face. Highly recommend!

[Kimberly]

My Lovely Wife just came out and I couldn't resist, so I'll count that one here (although it could be a debut novel too)

[Deborah]

The Power of Love: Sermons, Reflections, and Wisdom to Uplift and Inspire by Michael Curry. It's very short and includes the sermon given at Harry and Meghan's wedding.

[Dedra ~ A Book Wanderer]

Anna wrote: "I just finished Love You Hard by Abby Maslin. I couldn’t put it down - finished it in one day with tears streaming down my face. Highly recommend!"

I second Love You Hard: A Memoir of Marriage, Brain Injury, and Reinventing Love! So very inspiring!

[Cyndy]

I read To Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite, a really good movie; it's been a long time since I've watched it. Finally decided to read the book. Excellent read, highly recommended.

[赤李谷]

When I saw this one, I instantly thought of Love, Simon. I never got around to watching the movie, but this gives me the perfect reason to read the book with the movie title instead of the original.

[Shelley]

I ended up with The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English. I was only able to get the audio book but honestly I wish I had both a book and an audio copy. She goes through different spelling and pronunciation so a combination of both would be helpful! That said I really enjoyed it mainly because it's a very refreshing look on linguistics both historical and contemporary. While a bit dry (it's a book on linguistics, what do you expect?), there were a lot of funny lines and quite (the American definition, hehe) a lot of jokes were made at both Americans and Brits fairly equally. Definitely recommend if you've ever been yelled at for spelling either color or colour wrong!

[Jill]

Jess wrote: "I am thinking about reading Love Walked In by Maria de los Santos"

That is what I read for this prompt. I loved it!

[Drakeryn]

Joybean wrote: "When I saw this one, I instantly thought of Love, Simon. I never got around to watching the movie, but this gives me the perfect reason to read the book with the movie title instead of the original."

ooh I didn't realize there was a movie title edition. I might give it a try - contemporary romance is not generally my thing but I know it has a lot of rave reviews.

[Angela]

Here are the three I will be choosing from :
Love, Lucy (for fans of Lucille Ball)
Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying (for the Death Positive crowd)
Just a Geek: Unflinchingly honest tales of the search for life, love, and fulfillment beyond the Starship Enterprise (for the nerds among us)

[Mari]

Ashley-Marie wrote: "For those of us who aren't crazy about romance novels, there's always this classic play instead: Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare"


THANKS! That'll do!

[Ira]

Tytti wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Would love some suggestions for something a bit deeper or darker etc if anyone can help.

Love by Toni Morrison doesn't sound very romantic."

I am planning on reading Gun Love by Jennifer Clement. It looks interesting and kind of dark. I am also looking for books that are not contemporary romances.

[Lynette]

I could use a nice little frolic of a read, so I'm going to do To Scotland, With Love

[Cassandra]

plan to read Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover I love most of her books!

[Rachel]

I read Field Notes on Love by Jennifer E. Smith for PopSugar's prompt #29, a book with "love" in the title.

[Tina]

Would “Beloved” by Toni Morrison work for this prompt?

[Teri]

Tina wrote: "Would “Beloved” by Toni Morrison work for this prompt?"

Sure. It just says "love" in the title, not the word love only.

I'm reading this right now, and I hadn't thought about using it for the prompt.

[Melinda Kathleen]

A read “The Greatest Love Story Ever Told” by Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman. I listened to the audiobook and loved their witty banter!