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3.74 AVERAGE
3.74 AVERAGE
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
"OK, nothing lasts."
"Verbs are the heaviest lifters. Change is constant and inexorable. The Oxford comma isn't really optional. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. Restate your thesis in the final paragraph. You can fuck up and still be fine--remember that. Always include a bibliography. Don't promise your life to anybody."
"In poetry then, let me say that love has been, above all things, the engine of self-knowledge in my life-and even after everything is still what makes the rest worth suffering."
This poetry collection was deft in exploring the complex nature of heartbreak and leaving something that's working because you know you need to explore and grow differently. Loved the structure and the fantastic and creative use of rhyming structure and then breaking it.
So cool.
"Verbs are the heaviest lifters. Change is constant and inexorable. The Oxford comma isn't really optional. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. Restate your thesis in the final paragraph. You can fuck up and still be fine--remember that. Always include a bibliography. Don't promise your life to anybody."
"In poetry then, let me say that love has been, above all things, the engine of self-knowledge in my life-and even after everything is still what makes the rest worth suffering."
This poetry collection was deft in exploring the complex nature of heartbreak and leaving something that's working because you know you need to explore and grow differently. Loved the structure and the fantastic and creative use of rhyming structure and then breaking it.
So cool.
picked this book up from my local library and tried to read the German translation - I can tell the prose is suffering from the translation, maybe I'll give the English original a chance
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
It is a bittersweet book about the intensity of wlw relationships. Lots of good quotes. Around part 3 it gets a bit murky. I liked how it was written, maybe not exactly what happened in it if that makes sense?
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
EVERYTHING ALWAYS FINDS ME AT MY ABSOLUTE WORST
"And I can still feel the invisible moat we both believed in, on the other side of which we knew lay torment, exhale, wreckage, the anarchy of singledom. Loss upon loss. I remember testing it, the moat; throwing across a rope to check its breadth, twice to the waist, wading in before retreating, shamefaced, reining myself back. To him, it was a sea, I think: entirely impassable. To me it was a dizzying ravine that circled us for years, then cut between."
“It seemed unforgivable to end anything on purpose, especially when you saw the life you’d made together as alive: a symbiotic animal you’d raised with him, now tugging at its rope. Furred and hungry, and looking at you with the blank face of a factory cow—a face, so soft and innocent and gaunt, you’d have to be a monster not to want.”
"And I can still feel the invisible moat we both believed in, on the other side of which we knew lay torment, exhale, wreckage, the anarchy of singledom. Loss upon loss. I remember testing it, the moat; throwing across a rope to check its breadth, twice to the waist, wading in before retreating, shamefaced, reining myself back. To him, it was a sea, I think: entirely impassable. To me it was a dizzying ravine that circled us for years, then cut between."
“It seemed unforgivable to end anything on purpose, especially when you saw the life you’d made together as alive: a symbiotic animal you’d raised with him, now tugging at its rope. Furred and hungry, and looking at you with the blank face of a factory cow—a face, so soft and innocent and gaunt, you’d have to be a monster not to want.”
“Other times, I could feel myself become him.”
“There is frequently the feeling of a garden: the feeling of chasing a garden.
“You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you.”
“Put romantic love at the center of a novel today, and who could be persuaded that in its pursuit the characters are going to get to something large?”
“You could have had everything you wanted, had it been what you wanted. [...] At great cost you got a sense for what your life could be, and still had to admit that after all, that wasn’t really it. [...] And you will lose again. And no matter what you do you can’t not want. ”
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I really enjoyed Couplets, perhaps because it tells a story in verse. Every poem could be read separately and would have been meaningful as such, but together, they were about a time in the author’s life and an experience they went through.
In poetry then, let me say that love has been, above all things, the engine of self-knowledge in my life—and even after everything is still what makes the rest worth suffering.