Me and Mr. Darcy - Alexandra Potter
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”
- Sam Keen,
To Love and Be Loved
To Love and Be Loved
I JUST LOVED IT!!!!
Its been a long time since I wrote a book review (for that I should find time to read a book!!!)
On my recent trip to Goa, I started reading this book in the flight. (I find flights scary and what better way to distract my mind than reading a book) Honestly, I have never read a classic. So when the book started with descriptions about Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy, the ultimate fantasy of women since ages, I really could not connect.But still I read on. Maybe because on some level I'm like Emily Albright ( a hopeless romantic) who feels that men in the real world are not good enough, are not chivalrous, are not intense and so on... She compares every man she meets with Mr. Darcy. And when she meets Mr. Darcy - Its all her dreams come true!!!! But let's face it! He is not real!!!
The similar thing happens to many of us. We want our men to do things in certain ways, we set standards for them (some based on movie characters, some based on book characters and some based on our own high expectations) but those characters are fictional, they are not real.... While dreaming about the perfect man (Which is non-existent) we lose sight of the ones who are meant for us.
I loved the way the story goes through twists and turns. I couldn't just stop reading unless I reached the end, unless I was satisfied that Emily met her "Perfect Man" And after reading I had to write this review immediately.
Its been a long time since I wrote a book review (for that I should find time to read a book!!!)
On my recent trip to Goa, I started reading this book in the flight. (I find flights scary and what better way to distract my mind than reading a book) Honestly, I have never read a classic. So when the book started with descriptions about Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy, the ultimate fantasy of women since ages, I really could not connect.But still I read on. Maybe because on some level I'm like Emily Albright ( a hopeless romantic) who feels that men in the real world are not good enough, are not chivalrous, are not intense and so on... She compares every man she meets with Mr. Darcy. And when she meets Mr. Darcy - Its all her dreams come true!!!! But let's face it! He is not real!!!
The similar thing happens to many of us. We want our men to do things in certain ways, we set standards for them (some based on movie characters, some based on book characters and some based on our own high expectations) but those characters are fictional, they are not real.... While dreaming about the perfect man (Which is non-existent) we lose sight of the ones who are meant for us.
I loved the way the story goes through twists and turns. I couldn't just stop reading unless I reached the end, unless I was satisfied that Emily met her "Perfect Man" And after reading I had to write this review immediately.
“I am a
hopeless romantic. A silly, ridiculous, foolish romantic. I live in a fantasy
land. I need to get real. And now, for the first time, I want to get real. I want a real relationship
with a real man in the real world–-with all the real problems, faults, and
whatever comes with it.”
―Emily
Albright, Me and Mr. Darcy, Alexandra Potter
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