Love, you slippery beast, what are you? How can we speak about you when you refuse to be adequately defined? What do we talk about, when we talk about love?
It’s the time of year when cinnamon hearts, pink bears and glitter-festooned roses permeate the stores. Worst of all, generic greeting cards try to do justice to the world’s greatest and most complex of emotions – love. The best love stories can sometimes almost get there.
Take a break from the cloying sappiness of drugstore rhyme with these books that come close to speaking from the heart.