How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (816 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01M9I7E4D |
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| Number of Pages | : | 313 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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She teaches English and creative writing at the University of British Columbia. . Originally from Appalachian Virginia, Mandy Len Catron is a writer living and working in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her article “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This” was one of the most popular articles published by TheNew York Times in 2015. She’s writing about love and love stories at The Love Story Project (TheLoveStoryPro
Mike Mendoza said A book that clears people of being moved down the road of traditional marriage.. Not everyone in the world was made to be married. This book illuminates what other people feel and believe about traditional marriage. You soon discover, "It ain't for everybody".. giving some pretty solid advice along the way Cindy Catron's book does an exceptional job of bringing the reader into the most intimate parts of her life without seeming indulgent. Instead, you relate, you laugh and cry and think of first, second and last loves. She challenges relationship norms, while never claiming to have the answer to her title question, however, giving some pretty solid advice along the way. You'll read it in a day and talk about it for weeks.. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a fresh perspective I found this book to be a delightful read! The author's writing was sophisticated and very thoughtful. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a fresh perspective on love.
And she tells the story of how she decided to test a psychology experiment that she’d read about—where the goal was to create intimacy between strangers using a list of thirty-six questions—and ended up in the surreal situation of having millions of people following her brand-new relationship.In How to Fall in Love with Anyone Catron flips the script on love and offers a deeply personal, and universal, investigation.. She urges us to question the unwritten scripts we follow in relationships and looks into where those scripts come from in the first place. She uses biologists’ research into dopamine triggers to ask whether the need to love is an innate human drive. She delves all the way back to 1944, when her grandparents first met in a coal mining town in Appalachia, to her own dating life as a professor in Vancouver, drawing insights from her fascinating research into the universal psychology, biology, history, and literature of love. An insightful, charming, and absolutely fascinating memoir from the author of the popular New York Times essay, “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This,” (one o
Through the lens of her own relationships, she teaches us—with a deft, convincing intelligence—some of the vital moves in the art of love.” —Alain de Botton, author of How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Course of Love. Perfect fodder for the romantic and the cynic in all of us."—Booklist Catron melds science and emotion beautifully into a thoughtful and thought-provoking meditation on the most universal topic.—Bookpage