That's How Much I Love You

Husband and wife team, Claudia Nizza and Billy Mernit, took many conversations and made a very dear little book. That's How Much I Love You tells of a deep conection between two people. Nizza filled in the pages with her drawings of love while Mernit records their conversations. Together, That's How Much I Love You is a charming book meant to sit around on coffee tables for friends and relatives to share between each other.

Complimenti ragazzi! Un nuovo modo di percepire l'amore. Non con la solita sfrenata e violenta passione, ma attraverso un sapiente uso dei sentimenti. Tanta tanta dolcezza trapela da queste pagine, la dolcezza e l'armonia non di un amore infatuoso, ma caldo, calmo, sapiente e sicuro perché ben radicato. Mi viene la pelle d'oca, rileggendo alcune frasi, per quanto esse sono pacate e dolci. E le immagini? Sentimento, passione dolce e serena di chi sa attendere, aspettento di rivedere il suo lui chissà dopo quanti giorni, ma giorni felici, passati a disegnare, felicemente trasmettendo il calore interno, vivo sentito attraverso un sapiente equilibrio di colori e forme... sentimento che ha dato libero sfogo alla fantasia. Un nuovo ed eccellente modo di raccontare e soprattutto trasmettere l'amore.

This book touched me so deeply that I recommend it to anyone who is in love, want's to be in love etc.. The words and beautiful paintings span everyone's imagation and gives those with dought's hope that we will find our soulmate and be able to express our feelings with such openess and joy.

This is such an exquisite book. What a pure and beautiful outpouring of love between two people that started out as a simple, long distance game. I envision the creation of this book almost like two jazz musicians that are riffing on a melody (in this case love), where one creates a theme and then passes it off to the other who takes the theme and molds it into their own expression. Only here Mr. Mernit is playing the keys on a typewriter and Ms. Nizza, the brushes on a canvas. And wow... what music. The words are like small dreams with a rhythm that leads you into the art, and the art in this book is stunning. The wildness, beauty and humor of Ms. Nizza's imagination, and the incredible range of styles in which she is able to work, make these far more than just illustrations. I think what's particularly interesting about the book is how one is not merely an observer, looking in at two OTHER people in romantic love. I think the book really has to do with the force of love, and just as easily as I will read this with my wife, I can see giving it to my young niece, or reading it to a child at bedtime. In fact I was turned on to the book by a friend. That's how much I like this book!

This book is a gem - the kind you want to buy for everyone who means anything to you. It celebrates love visually and verbally and is a true original! I highly recommend it. My heart is still singing ... and so, for that matter, is my mind.