Reading books about love can be bittersweet.  Sympathizing with the main characters, we remember events from our lives - schooltime love, passionate nights and fateful encounters. Through the pages of the book, we can relive moments of happiness, experiences and gain insights and lessons to apply to your current relationship. Vacation time has started, so you can bask in the sun and find more time to read. LĪGAVĀM collected 7 inspiring books about love that will remind you of how important, complex and beautiful it is.

Michael Ondatje “The English Patient”

If you want to completely forget about everyday life and sink into a deep sea of love and the pain of loss, then this job is definitely will make your heart flutter. This is one of the best-selling books about love and war, whose film adaptation even won an Oscar. The book tells the story of a crashed pilot and the nurse who takes care of him on his deathbed. The main character reminisces and talks about his love for a woman who was married to someone else.

John Gray "Men are from Mars, women are from Venus"

This will be the right book if you want to understand the interaction between a man and a woman and are looking for inspiration for a more successful mutual relationship for communication. This is the first book written by American author and expert on family relationships, John Gray.  So first published in 1993, and has not lost its relevance in more than twenty years - it was published repeatedly and ranks among the most popular books on the psychology of relationships. Men and women are known to be different in nature.

The author explains these differences and how to overcome them in his book. Most conflicts in relationships are formed because partners try to explain things to each other as they would explain to themselves, but the other does not understand. The main one the advantage of the book is light humor and real life examples and situations in which the reader sees himself.

Arkadijs Pancs and Galina Pancs – Zaitseva "Talks about love"

If you are one of those who likes clear language and you find imaginative, dreamy descriptions sweet - this book will be perfect for you to you The book was created from conversations and articles in which Arkadys Pancs shares with the readers his experience, observations, in thoughts and feelings accumulated during thirty-five years of professional activity in psychotherapy. The book is very direct and explains various life situations that develop between a man and a woman without hesitation. "Love is not life meaning. And neither is its purpose. This is a prerequisite for happiness. You can live without love. Just not worth it. And I think that there is no person who does not know and does not want to love," writes the author.

"Dark alleys" by Ivan Bunin

This is a classic collection of love stories written by the author during World War II. The stories reflect different love affairs that are full of passion and show the interaction between a man and a woman. You will definitely find a story that will make you laugh will stop your heart and make you think long after reading the book. The author's work is also often performed in theater performances.

Leo Tolstoy "Anna Karenina"

Classic lovers can choose this gorgeous love story without hesitation. Anna Karenina, seemingly happy a lady of high society, gives up the usual, comfortable but boring family life and chooses love - she leaves her husband and son to start a new life with her lover. However, along with love comes society in Anna's life condemnation and loneliness. The life of the main character is under the illusion that love and the sacrifice made in its name will provide eternal happiness is shaken by reality. A thrilling love story and at the same time an epic message about the era in which we live is very different from today in terms of style, beliefs and customs prevailing in the society.

Gary Chapman “Five Love Languages”

This is an international bestseller, and if you haven't read it yet, maybe now is the time. The author explains people's different ways of expressing and perceiving love, outlining five love languages: qualitative time spent, words of affirmation, gift giving, acts of love and physical touch. The author states that what's really important to you may mean absolutely nothing to your partner, which often leads to arguments and mutual misunderstandings.

The book leads you to understand each other's emotional needs and, using the right principles, learn the appropriate one a language of love that is understandable to the other. The book brings you the satisfaction and joy of being able to express yourself love

The Book of Love, compiled by Henrik Elias Seegner

The book collects works, stories, essays, poems and retellings about love by contemporary Latvian authors. You can read in the book 21 texts by both well-known and new contemporary authors, which were created especially for this edition and talk about different things forms of love – friendship, relationships, love for a child, God, etc. Among the authors of the book is Sven Kuzmins, Daina Tabūna, Artis Ostup, Edvīns Raup, Aksel Hirš, Marija Luīze Melķe and others.

Author of the article: ELISA RUDŽITE

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