6/25/2023 0 Comments First love turgenev![]() ![]() Suffice to say, this book looked like a lot of things I would find boring. I’m not convinced that’s what I would have taken from the novella, but more on that later. The lesson ‘First Love’ teaches us, if you’re wondering, is “Love can be torture“. Penguin also added a little caption on the back cover, explaining the particular lesson about love this book illustrates. Here Penguin brings you the most sedutive, inspiring and surprising writing on love in all its infinite variety before featuring zero lesbians and only one gay couple in twenty books. ![]() The third strike is the blurb from Penguin which breathlessly declares (of the collection): Love is strange. It’s not the sort of thing I would usually choose – being about a) romance, and b) a teenage boy with a crush on an older woman, which are two strikes against it. This edition of ‘First Love’ was published as part of Penguin’s ‘Great Loves’ boxset – a collection that I have no recollection of ever buying or being given. #TBRChallenge hosted by Wendy The Misadventures of Super Librarian ![]()
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