I loved it! Our narrator has a clear-eyed, self-deprecating charm as the adult Vladimir Petrovich recounts his memories of his teenage crush on his neighbour to his friends. 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. It does not store any personal data.#TBRChallenge hosted by Wendy The Misadventures of Super Librarian The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". In addition to certain standard Google cookies, reCAPTCHA sets a necessary cookie (_GRECAPTCHA) when executed for the purpose of providing its risk analysis. This cookie is used to enable payment on the website without storing any patment information on a server. This cookie is set by Stripe payment gateway.
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