LITERATURE

The Book of Love: Improvisations on a Crazy Little Thing

by Roger Rosenblatt
Ecco: HarperCollins. 2015. 192p. ISBN 9780062349422. $22.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062349446. MEMOIR
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Exploring love and its many incarnations in popular culture, history, and the author's own experience with his wife of 50 years, these stories are told through Rosenblatt's stream of consciousness. The author's ruminations on the nature of love in its many forms—friendly, romantic, familial, and more—will comfort the hearts of his fans. Reading this book is reminiscent of sitting down with someone who is ready to tell you about his great, large life without much rhyme or reason to sequence or story line.
VERDICT True to its subtitle, this is a collection of "improvisations," meandering in a way that allows readers to pick it up and begin from any page in this tiny, precious book. [See Prepub Alert, 7/7/14.]
Reviewed by Staff , Feb 19, 2015
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