It's About Love uses lots of excerpts from film scripts, and involves quite a lot of references to films.
Enfantines (1918) is a collection of nostalgic childhood reminiscences, and Amants, heureux amants (1923), dealing with men and women in love, uses the interior-monologue technique developed by the Irish novelist James Joyce.
Mr. Switek, never forgetting his lost love, uses Brontosaurus as a traveling companion through a book about how much our dinosaurs have changed, noting that "the same process that destroyed the titan has revealed clues about prehistoric lives that we never expected to find".
Her 2006 memoir, "Eat, Pray, Love," uses her painful divorce at 32 as a starting point for an exuberant yearlong "search for everything" across Italy, India and Indonesia, including lavish meals, romantic affairs and a happy ending in the arms of an exotic man (also divorced).
Kentaro Yamada's labor of love uses a camera to capture joy.
The plot of From Russia, with Love uses a fictional Soviet Spektor decoding machine as a lure to trap Bond; the Spektor had its roots in the wartime German Enigma machine.
