LOVE AND OTHER WORDS by Christina Lauren

"Macy Lea Sorensen leaned about loss at the tender age of ten when her mother died. But before her death, she left her husband a “roadmap” of how to raise their little girl knowing she was loved.
As fate would have it, this map leads them to a cabin in the small town of Healdsburg and down a path where nothing will ever be the same. Elliot was the bookish sibling in the large Petropoulos brood. He could always be found hiding in a quite space with a book in his hand. And this is exactly how he meets his new neighbour .." " As I got older, my parents had a vacation house in Gualala, and they moved to Windsor for awhile after I grew up. I just felt AT HOME in this book. But, the locations weren't what I loved about this book, they were just the icing on the cake. This book is special to me for reasons I don't think I can explain to anyone. The love and the pain in this book are *exquisite* to me." "I finished reading Love and Other Words on January 21, 2019. I started reading it the day before on the 20th and finished it the next day since this was a book that was hard to put down. It put me through an emotional wreck, especially at the end of the book. I was literally in tears that my hubs asked me what was wrong? I couldn’t tell him because he would have never understood .."

사랑하는 사람과의 이별, 첫사랑, 청춘, 이별, 우연한 재회, 사랑의 완성 ... 흔한 이야기 전개지만 재밌게 읽을 수 있는 책이다. 과거와 현재라는 시간을 나눈 구성 전개, 이메일, 문자 메세지, 메모 등 다양한 종류의 글은 이 책을 읽는 즐거움이다. 영어문장이 무난하고 표현등이 비교적 쉬운 편이어서 진도가 잘 나가는 책이다. 개인적으로 눈물이 날 정도의 감동적인 사랑을 다루는 책이라고는 생각하진 않지만 첫사랑에 대한 기억들과 재회에 대한 기대 등 사람들의 감성을 자극하는 요소는 있다. "The past decade seems like a foggy blur, like we took a long road trip from one point of the earth and back again, traveling in a wide circle, destined to end up here." 라는 문장이 이 책을 잘 설명해는거 같다.