Name: Stef's review of This Modern Love by Will Darbyshire
Item: This Modern Love
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Will Darbyshire

In the tradition of Post Secret and Other People’s Love Letters, a crowdsourced compilation of letters, stories, and art work about the modern state of love and relationships, edited by rising filmmaker and beloved YouTube vlogger Will Darbyshire. “What would you say to your ex, without judgment?” This is the question filmmaker and vlogger Will Darbyshire posed to hundreds of thousands of his closest friends on YouTube. Seeking closure after a tough break-up, Will was driven to strike up an intimate conversation with his online audience, and to get at the heart of one of life’s unknowable yet universal mysteries: love. Over a period of six months, Will posed a series of questions to his audience and asked them to reveal their innermost feelings about their own romantic experiences in the form of hand-written letters, poems, photographs, and emails. The result is a curated collection of responses that are, at turns, funny, dark, confessional, awkward, comforting, and uplifting. This Modern Love is a compelling portrait of individual desires, fantasies, resentments, and fears that reminds us that, whether we’re in or out of love, we’re not alone.

This Modern Love

Sophie Cullingworth

Stef

Cukup suka dengan konsep buku nya yang merupakan kumpulan surat-surat dari beberapa orang. Ada yang berupa surat panjang pendek yang semuanya bertemakan tentang "Modern Love". 
Bukunya sendiri dibagi menjadi 3 part, Beginning, middle dan end. Beginning menceritakan awal dari cinta yang dimulai dengan "fallin in love" with crush, middle part menceritakan "relationship" dan end berisikan the bitterness of broken heart 😭😭

Buku yang cocok dibaca sekali jalan kalau sedang nunggu jemputan/kendaran.

"THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER This Modern Love is a unique crowdsourced book of letters, stories, and photographs about the state of modern romance by YouTuber Will Darbyshire. 'Question 1. What would you say to your ex, without judgement?' Seeking closure after a tough break-up, Will Darbyshire was driven to strike up an intimate conversation with his online audience. Posting a series of questions via his YouTube, Twitter and Instagram channels, Will asked his followers to share their innermost thoughts about their relationship experiences, in the form of hand-written letters, poems, photographs, and emails. After 6 months and over 15,000 heartfelt submissions later, from over 100 countries, This Modern Love collects these letters together to form a compendium of 21st century love, structured into the beginning, middle and end of a relationship. Tender, funny and cathartic, This Modern Love is a compelling portrait of individual desires, resentments and fears that reminds us that, whether we're in or out of love, we're not alone."

linda

To be honest, I’m not sure why I stayed up late reading this book. Well, it was 11PM, and I had just read Antigone and watched Burnt in the Sun, and I felt lonely as hell. It was good to get away and dream for a little.

I don’t know what love feels like. But I do know how it feels to be in a drunken haze of stares and grins, to play a game of catching each other’s eyes, to daydream about being his girl. It felt good to indulge in all of that.

It also felt good to know that love is messy and ugly and painful, a little bit like the residue on your fingers after eating a donut or melted chocolate on a hot summer day. Stickysweet. A lot of ruined songs. A lot of ruined favorite places. A lot of books that I can’t touch anymore without thinking about him. Darbyshire captured all of that.

So maybe it was worth it?

Krystal 

Magdalene Lim

Honest, raw and some of the words hit you like a bus you never saw coming, whether you come from a place of sympathy or empathy.

Nadia

Really enjoyed this actually and got through it in less than 2 hours. I borrowed it from a friend and am going to reread it before I give it back, because she’s not in a hurry to have it back.

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THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER This Modern Love is a unique crowdsourced book of letters, stories, and photographs about the state of modern romance by YouTuber Will Darbyshire. 'Question 1. What would you say to your ex, without judgement?' Seeking closure after a tough break-up, Will Darbyshire was driven to strike up an intimate conversation with his online audience. Posting a series of questions via his YouTube, Twitter and Instagram channels, Will asked his followers to share their innermost thoughts about their relationship experiences, in the form of hand-written letters, poems, photographs, and emails. After 6 months and over 15,000 heartfelt submissions later, from over 100 countries, This Modern Love collects these letters together to form a compendium of 21st century love, structured into the beginning, middle and end of a relationship. Tender, funny and cathartic, This Modern Love is a compelling portrait of individual desires, resentments and fears that reminds us that, whether we're in or out of love, we're not alone.

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