From Amazon.co.uk:
A revised edition of a classic book on love by the bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Consolations of Philosophy.

Taken to Book Drinks.

Release #29 for the 2012 Valentine Challenge.

Caught at Meetup. Thank you awaywithfairies.

Very interesting. Finished just in time to see the man speak on a different topic tomorrow night at the Opera House. Will release the book at an upcoming Meetup.

Private release to a work colleague (RP). He wrote "I had mixed feelings about the book. I guess mostly because he tried to blend a treatise on the philosophy of love with a readable story, in my view not very successfully. I would have preferred an all-out scientific work that also addressed the biochemistry of love (the whole oxytocin cycle), which he missed, and also a review of the recent work on 'love' (=pair bonding) in animals. Result: I found the notes more interesting than the main text."

At Meetup at the Crown Hotel.

Picked up at Bookcrossing last night.

A memoir of the author's relationship with a woman when he was 23, and his thoughts on love, rather than essays as such. Written in a rather disjointed way but the author tries to cover it up by numbering the paragraphs as if each one is making a separate important point.

The book is the sort of thing that anyone could write (or anyone highly intelligent, educated, a thinker etc). It was interesting, and I could understand it all, but I didn't really learn anything new from it.

The author acted in rather bizarre ways after his girlfriend broke up with him. The mention of effervescent vitamin C tablets in one chapter was (unintentionally) funny.

Just started reading this. And first time using book crossing. Love it!