Unforgettable: Vignettes of Love

by Susan Schneider

"How did you two meet?" A seemingly simple question, often asked of couples in love. "Unforgettable: Vignettes of Love" answers that question in a compilation of true love stories, finding that the question can unearth the wonderful complexity of fate. Told by couples of all ages and of different cultures, it takes you down a road filled with sweet emotion. Open the book and find out how the drummer meets the college student he had been spying on, how the reporter loses the bachelor auction but gets her man, and how former teenage lovers find each other after 50 years! Take delight as hearts, broken from previous relationships and marriages, are mended with the meeting of a new love. Whether it means overcoming shyness, lots of prayer, or great persistence, each couple finds each other, falls in love, and marries. Peek into the lives of couples that have found a special person to share their life with... even, in some cases, for a short period of time. Some stories are intimate, some incredible, and some you will relate to. All are heartwarming, touching, and unforgettable.

232 pages, Hardcover

First published August 11, 2006

About the author

SUSAN SCHNEIDER is a philosopher and cognitive scientist. She is the Blumberg-NASA chair at the Library of Congress and NASA and the Director of the AI,Mind and Society group at the University of Connecticut. Podcasts, chapters, videos, etc. are available at her website: Schneiderwebsite.com

Reviews

[Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the book that I wrote. It is a fun read and a great gift for Valentine's Day, anniversaries, weddings, etc.

[Leah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Susan Schneider traveled far and wide collecting "vignettes" from couples in all 48 contiguous United States and several other countries. You can open at random to any page and discover an enjoyable first-person narrative of how strangers met and eventually became spouses. A couple of the accounts I read when I first checked out the book were stories that ended in divorce making me think, "Oh, no! I do not like this at all!" but though I didn't keep count, divorce was a rare final outcome. I especially like the clean, open-looking layout and the fact the author did not try to make each story exactly the same length with precisely the same opening, middle and closing format. One of the best stories the author presented as (sort of) a single account is actually a trilogy of how three brothers from one large family married three sisters from another large family. Whether you've been single for a long time and aren't seriously looking for someone or you're happily newlywed or approaching a major milestone anniversary, I predict you'll enjoy this book as much as I did. What is more, it would make a great gift for almost anyone on your list, from high school kids just starting to date to centenarian great-great-grandparents!