In our quest to reach romantic nirvana, we turn to self-help manuals, magazines, talk shows, friends, relatives, and shrinks. But we’ve overlooked the true font of wisdom: the timeless stories written by great novelists. That’s where Much Ado About Loving comes in. In its pages, two book lovers who are also advice columnists—Maura Kelly and Jack Murnighan—relay the lessons in life and love that they’ve learned from reading more classic novels than your English teacher, while having far more romantic conundrums than all of Jane Austen’s characters combined. They’ve done the heavy reading—and the recovering from heartbreak—for you.
Kelly and Murnighan take turns writing the chapters and telling us about their hits and misses in the dating world. They share the triumphs and the failures. All along they tie their romantic adventures to the stories and lessons in classic literature.
The chapter names made me chuckle and inspired me to keep reading:
Why Too Much Emailing Can Be Dangerous
Why Idealizing Someone Can Come Back to Bite You
Are Men Genetically Coded to Cheat?
*Why aren’t these two dating? I wondered that throughout the whole book!
The Relentless Reader 
This sounds like a fun read. From your review, I was also wondering why they weren't dating – LOL!
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So. Much. Fun. That video was awesome. Thanks for sharing!
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Does seem mysterious! And I have to say I met my husband via Match.com!
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I really like the sound of this book! I enjoy books about books too and this sounds like a fun topic to explore. Thanks for the great review!
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I like the idea of this book.I am often scornful of popular self help books and trends of all kinds and have been known to remark that folks would do better to read Shakespeare.
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I bet they've been asked that question a lot 😉 It was a very fun read!
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You're welcome Andi! I loved the video too 🙂
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That's the way to do it girl! 🙂
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Thanks 🙂 It's a fun read, very comical. I always enjoy reading about the dating disasters of others, lol. I hope you get to this one!
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You are SO right Brian! So right.
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Hehe, why aren't they dating. It sounds a really good book, interesting and insightful as well as funny.
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It is all of those things Charlie 🙂 Very cute book!
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I started this last week, and got distracted, but I did read the introduction and thought the same thing almost immediately. WHY aren't they dating? They sound like they are doing everything but! LOL I really need to get back to this one; it sounds fun!
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And that's Heather (Capricious Reader) by the way, I didn't realize I was logged into the Estella account! LOl
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It is very fun, I think you'll dig it 😉
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LOL, hi Heather!! 😉
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This is such a great idea! There is a reason so many timeless novels have love stories in them. It sounds like a new and different spin on the \”books that are important to me\” sort of memoir.
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