It’s very rare in modern literature that you find a book that draws you in and never let’s you go. The Forty Rules of Love is one such book.
When the book first came out, I picked it up simply because I thought it might be a good crappy/trashy read to freshen myself every day once the kids would go to school. But once I started reading it, I figured the word ‘love’ in the title is far deeper than what we our usual idea of love that revolves around lust and sometimes just infatuation.
Every real love story leads to unexpected transformations. If we are the same person “before love” and “after love”, it means we have not loved enough.
Forty Rules of Love, Elif Shafak
The book is about a 40 year old married Jewish woman named Ella and her journey of self discovery, of true love and the importance of relationships in her life by reading a book written about the friendship between a wandering dervish, Shams of Tabriz and a well known theologian, Jalal Uddin Rumi.
While reading the book, you will learn a lot about yourself and people around you too. It will convince you into wanting something real from life and will be hit with realization how inconsequential most material things in life are.
Verdict: This is a book that you will enjoy reading whether you identify yourself belonging to a religion or not. It will help you question a lot of your life choices and decisions and hopefully help you in changing the wrong decisions in your life. Highly recommended. And I know most people will read it more than once.
Rating: 4.5/5
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