Love Stories

Love Stories
Read By: Travelling Gourmet Food and Book Club
Date Read: 2022-10
Author:
Published: 2021-10-28
Endless stories. Human stories. Love stories. Inspired by a personal moment of profound love and generosity, bestselling author – and one of Australia's finest journalists – Trent Dalton spent two months in 2021 pounding city pavements, speaking to Australians from all walks of life and asking them one simple and direct question: 'Can you please tell me a love story?' For two straight weeks he sat at a desk with a sky-blue 1960s Olivetti typewriter, on the bustling corner of Adelaide and Albert streets, Brisbane, with a sign saying, 'Sentimental writer collecting love stories. Do you have one to share?' The result is Love Stories – a warm, wise, poignant, funny and moving book about love in all its guises, including stories, observations and reflections on lovers in parks; people in cemeteries, hospital wards, pubs and bingo halls; and newlyweds walking out of registry offices. There will be stories of people falling into love, falling out of love, and never letting go of the loved ones in their hearts. And woven through it all will be remembrances of Trent's own special moments, and of the people whose love stories have made him the man and writer he is today. A heartfelt, deep, funny, wise and tingly tribute to the greatest thing we will never understand and the only thing we will ever really need: love.
4.1Overall Score

Love Stories

Book Club Review 6 of the 8 readers enjoyed/loved the: * weaving of the author's own story through the other love stories * setting and culture of the CBD street * story of the Olivetti ...

  • Travelling Gourmet Food and Book Club Rating
    3.6
  • Barb's Rating
    4.6

Book Club Review
6 of the 8 readers enjoyed/loved the:
* weaving of the author’s own story through the other love stories
* setting and culture of the CBD street
* story of the Olivetti typewriter
* light and heavy stories creating light and shade
* theme and idea for this book

One commented that it ‘was a breath of fresh air to read’!!!

2 of the 8 readers:
* couldn’t engage in the flow of book and didn’t get enough from each character/story
* too many characters and too schmaltzy

Barb’s Review
Enjoyed the experience of reading this book – the book cover, different typefaces on the pages and the feel of the paper! Loved the random ‘dipping in and out of’ people stories and the exploration of different types of love. Intrigued by the concept of this book !! Like a few in the book club, I would love to know his process of compiling the stories. 🙂