"I like you better than calculus, and math is the only thing that unites the universe."
We are almost one month out from Valentine's Day, which means that my mind is on sweet stories of friendship, love, and care for one another. While I think the day itself gets overblown and I'm not a big fan of the consumerism that it fuels, I DO appreciate a refocusing on intentional care for one another in the midst of a world so marked by brokenness and hatred. Let's work to love one another well, yes?
The Kiss Quotient is the sweet story that I was looking for this week. While the writing is pretty straightforward and doesn't make an effort to be poetic or lyrical, I like what it does accomplish--the sharing of a steamy but also emotional and cute reversal of Pretty Woman. Hoang uses this story about Stella and Michael to examine her own personal experience of autism, to comment on what consent looks and feels like, and to reflect on the different ways that expectation and discrimination shape and mold our self-images.
I really enjoyed this cute story, and would commend it to anyone who is a little skeptical about contemporary romance but who is intrigued enough to give it a try!
We are almost one month out from Valentine's Day, which means that my mind is on sweet stories of friendship, love, and care for one another. While I think the day itself gets overblown and I'm not a big fan of the consumerism that it fuels, I DO appreciate a refocusing on intentional care for one another in the midst of a world so marked by brokenness and hatred. Let's work to love one another well, yes?
The Kiss Quotient is the sweet story that I was looking for this week. While the writing is pretty straightforward and doesn't make an effort to be poetic or lyrical, I like what it does accomplish--the sharing of a steamy but also emotional and cute reversal of Pretty Woman. Hoang uses this story about Stella and Michael to examine her own personal experience of autism, to comment on what consent looks and feels like, and to reflect on the different ways that expectation and discrimination shape and mold our self-images.
I really enjoyed this cute story, and would commend it to anyone who is a little skeptical about contemporary romance but who is intrigued enough to give it a try!