The History of Love

• What a reading experience! I went into this book knowing absolutely nothing about its premise. All I knew was that it is highly regarded by many of my Goodreads friends. What you should know is that right after I finished reading it, I spent the rest of the day rereading and underlining passages and clues I might have overlooked.

• Some of the writing in this is too beautiful for words.  And yet, it is clearly all about the words, always.  Lost words, thrown away words, and "the crime of silence".  A first true love, broken pride, a man who thought he was made of glass, a sightless photographer, the loneliness of becoming invisible.  A search for one thing segues into something else entirely.  It will make you contemplate the sadness and loss of an unread book.

• This book is about a rare kind of love; a unique one that is fathomless and can only be expressed by the delicate hands of a virtuoso that reveals in the silences between words left unsaid, between the commas and the semicolons.

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