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A review by nicolettae
The First Ten Years: Two Sides of the Same Love Story by Joseph Fink, Meg Bashwiner
4.0
The First Ten Years is unique in the sense that it is boring. It is completely, undeniably boring. Aside from their podcast success, this joint memoir doesn’t necessarily cover a lavish live or an unforgettable story… it is pretty much about two very normal people navigating life, love, and themselves over the course of ten years. This boringness and simplicity is what made this book so wonderful and special to me.
This has to be one of the greatest love stories I have ever read. There isn’t necessarily a meet cute or massive romance event, and we spend a lot of time sitting still with Joseph and Meg as they navigate life - making smoothies in their new Ninja blender, going on runs, unofficially adopting cats, traveling to AirBNB’s, and trying to figure out their future, like where to settle down and if they want kids.
This slow, predictably unpredictable mundanity fed my soul, mainly because it is real.
Their experiences are nearly carbon copies of what many of us go through in our romantic relationships. Nothing is too convoluted or hyperbolic… we all are just taking things and our relationships day by day. There is no dramatic climax in real life relationships, there is just simple support and subtle gestures like making coffee everyday or silently being next to them while they process grief. Joseph and Meg’s beautiful, yet simple, professions of love and life had me crying all the way through The First Ten Years.
This was absolutely a beautiful, emotional, touching, real, and boring (in a very good way) book.
This has to be one of the greatest love stories I have ever read. There isn’t necessarily a meet cute or massive romance event, and we spend a lot of time sitting still with Joseph and Meg as they navigate life - making smoothies in their new Ninja blender, going on runs, unofficially adopting cats, traveling to AirBNB’s, and trying to figure out their future, like where to settle down and if they want kids.
This slow, predictably unpredictable mundanity fed my soul, mainly because it is real.
Their experiences are nearly carbon copies of what many of us go through in our romantic relationships. Nothing is too convoluted or hyperbolic… we all are just taking things and our relationships day by day. There is no dramatic climax in real life relationships, there is just simple support and subtle gestures like making coffee everyday or silently being next to them while they process grief. Joseph and Meg’s beautiful, yet simple, professions of love and life had me crying all the way through The First Ten Years.
This was absolutely a beautiful, emotional, touching, real, and boring (in a very good way) book.