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Letting yourself fall into stories, dreaming away and empathizing with the protagonists - this works well with love stories, among other things.
Here is a selection of books.
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This doesn't change anything for you.
Sometimes most people probably put on rose-colored glasses.
A little bit of kitsch, a little bit of heartbreak and romance – some romance novels manage to make butterflies flutter in your stomach.
No matter whether it's heartbreak, cloud nine or jealousy and from the first crush to love for life.
If you don't have that in real life, you can take literature to your side.
Romance novels aren't just for Valentine's Day.
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Romance novel tip 1: Colleen Hoover “Just one more time”
The American author Colleen Hoover is popular with her love stories - her book “Just One More Time” (originally “It Ends With US”) is particularly celebrated on BookTok.
The romance novel was published in 2016 - a little later many readers celebrated it on TikTok.
The book is about a modern Cinderella love story.
The protagonist Lily dares to make a fresh start and finds a new love.
When Lily meets Ryle, all her dreams seem to come true: a new city, her first job and then Ryle - attractive, wealthy and head over heels in love with Lily.
Lily's difficult childhood is forgotten.
Atlas, her first love, is also forgotten.
But then Lily happens to meet Atlas again, and suddenly Ryle shows a side of him that she never expected from him.
Blurb/dtv
The book has been made into a film and is expected to be released in cinemas from August 8th,
Kino.de
informs .
Blake Lively plays the female lead.
If you don't want to wait so long, you can distract yourself in the meantime with the second part of the series “Just One More Time and Forever”.
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Colleen Hoover “Just One More Time”
Original title: It Ends With Us
2017 dtv, ISBN-13 978-3-423-43283-2
Price: paperback €12.95, e-book €9.99, 416 pages (different format)
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Tip 2: Dolly Alderton “Everything I know about love”
If you don't want to read a romance novel but still want to stay true to the theme, pick up “Everything I Know About Love” by Dolly Alderton.
The book is an autobiography with anecdotes, personal experiences and reflections.
What is it like to be a woman?
A warm and funny memoir about growing up and all the lessons you learn along the way, Dolly Alderton knows all about disastrous dates, messy nights and bad decisions.
She knows what it's like to have your heart broken - but also how to mend it.
Above all, Dolly tells the story in a brutally honest and incredibly funny way about the great happiness of friendships that are for life and not just to fill gaps between lovers.
Dolly Alderton knows all sides of love, the good and the dark.
There is the guru who can look deep inside her and who runs away the morning after the long-awaited first night.
Or a dubious guy in New York who wants to convince her to have a threesome.
Or the planned hippie for whom she shaves her hair.
And then Dolly suddenly realizes that love exists in a completely different way and that her friendships with her girls have taught her more about love than any man.
Friends who are there for you when you don't know how to pay the rent, when a relationship has broken down or the Rod Stewart theme party backfires.
Blurb/Kiepenheuer&Witsch
Dolly Alderton “Everything I Know About Love”
Original: All I Know About Love
2019 KiWi, ISBN: 978-3-462-05195-7
Price: Paperback €15.00, e-book €12.99
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Tip 3: Carley Fortune “Five Summers with You”
Can friendship turn into love?
Summer has something special about it: long, balmy evenings, lots of time and a carefree life.
However, that's not always the case, sometimes the magical moments that you regularly experience in the summer come to naught.
Five Summers with You by Carley Fortune tells the story of Percy and Sam.
Percy has endless memories of Barry's Bay, the idyllic place in Canada where she spent her youthful summers in a lakeside cottage.
Five unforgettable summers in which she and the neighbor boy Sam were inseparable: eating ice cream on the dock, swimming races and counting stars at the lake.
But the thing about memories is – they are a thing of the past.
But when Percy learns that Sam's mother has died, she can't help but head to Barry's Bay immediately.
And when she meets Sam again after all this time, suddenly everything is back: all the happiness and all the pain - about the one moment that made a future together impossible...
Blurb/Penguin
Carley Fortune “Five Summers with You”
Original: Every Summer After
2023 Penguin, ISBN: 9783328109006
Price: Paperback €13.00.
E-book €9.99, 416 pages (different format)
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Tip 4: Jane Austen “Pride and Prejudice”
A classic that you should probably read is “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen.
English society in the 19th century is discussed there, and at the same time there is a love story.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a bachelor who has a considerable fortune only needs one wife to be happy.
The five Bennet sisters should be brought under the hood in accordance with their status; that is their mother's declared goal.
When the attractive and wealthy Mr. Darcy enters the Bennets' lives, the perfect son-in-law and husband for Elizabeth seems to have been found.
If only he wasn't so unlikable to the clever and proud young woman because of his blasé arrogance - and therefore completely unsuitable as a husband... In a society in which the marriage market is based on status and wealth, but feelings are never left out, vanity matters, Overcoming prejudices and your own pride to find true happiness!
Blurb/Suhrkamp
Jane Austen “Pride and Prejudice”
Original: “Pride and Prejudice”
2011 Suhrkamp, ISBN: 978-3-458-36200-5
Price: Brochure €9.00, 371 pages
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If you want to feel royal, then you should read this book, because it is Queen Camilla's undisputed favorite book.