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4.22 AVERAGE
4.22 AVERAGE
I honestly don't know my feelings on this, so I'm rating this as 2.5 stars.
Update: Two years later, and this book lives within me like a vital organ. I’ve recommended it to countless friends—my favourite responses include, “I love you even more for recommending me this,” and, over chat at 3 a.m., “Hi. I’m crying so much right now. What the fuck is wrong with you?”. Her Name in the Sky proves again and again that it is a force to be reckoned with: a book that suckerpunches you with emotion, and then begs for thanks. I love it. I will never reread it, because every time I try to, I cry over the first line—but it remains one of my favourite novels of all time.
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"Love ultimately wins, Hannah. Love ultimately saves."
Her Name In The Sky shattered me as easily as a hammer would glass. I don’t think I’ve ever read a book as beautiful as this. It’s so... uncontainable. It’s tears and laughter and swooning and friendship and everything I’ve ever wanted. It grips your heart and clenches it. It tore me apart. It’s vibrant and vivid. It's perfect.
Going into this, I expected a fluffy, friends-to-lovers rom-com style novel. This is obviously not that. It's two girls, coming together and fucking up and breaking apart and making up and just realizing how connected they are. How much they need each other.
This is my favourite book of all time. Read it, if you can. It'll change your world.
TW: Homophobia
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"Love ultimately wins, Hannah. Love ultimately saves."
Her Name In The Sky shattered me as easily as a hammer would glass. I don’t think I’ve ever read a book as beautiful as this. It’s so... uncontainable. It’s tears and laughter and swooning and friendship and everything I’ve ever wanted. It grips your heart and clenches it. It tore me apart. It’s vibrant and vivid. It's perfect.
Going into this, I expected a fluffy, friends-to-lovers rom-com style novel. This is obviously not that. It's two girls, coming together and fucking up and breaking apart and making up and just realizing how connected they are. How much they need each other.
This is my favourite book of all time. Read it, if you can. It'll change your world.
TW: Homophobia
THIS. BOOK. *screams*
i think im going to be in my feelings for a while, but while i figure out how to move on from this book, you should all get to reading it.
although the themes of catholicism and religion-based homophobia can be hard to read, the way quindlen uses biblical imagery to describe hannah’s feelings is all at once harrowing and powerful and utterly beautiful. i have a lot of thoughts related to this book and these themes in particular, and i hope to have them all up here soon.
major trigger warnings for homophobia (internalised and otherwise), as well as drinking. towards the end there’s also some violence and vomiting.
i think im going to be in my feelings for a while, but while i figure out how to move on from this book, you should all get to reading it.
although the themes of catholicism and religion-based homophobia can be hard to read, the way quindlen uses biblical imagery to describe hannah’s feelings is all at once harrowing and powerful and utterly beautiful. i have a lot of thoughts related to this book and these themes in particular, and i hope to have them all up here soon.
major trigger warnings for homophobia (internalised and otherwise), as well as drinking. towards the end there’s also some violence and vomiting.
This coming of age YA book was a nice gentle reminder of what it was like to be in high school. Golden, young, carefree, curious and confused. I remember praying not to be gay. To be normal. How conflicted feelings can divide a steady friendship and a blossoming love. With a gentle hand Kelly Quindlen guides the group of friends through their senior year. If you are still trying to figure out those feelings of youth or looking back through the rear-view mirror, I offer a bittersweet recommendation to you all to read this book.
what a beautifully written book. it also made me want to literally cry my eyes out and never leave my room again but it was all said in beautiful prose i couldn’t resent even if i tried.
people will have their own reactions to the story presented in this book, it is hard hitting for sure-some of the dialogue and plot points left a weight in my chest similar to the weight hannah harboured. but above all, for a book about 2012 louisiana teens in love, it was amazing. the way religion was discussed was intricate and lovely & the presence of mrs carpenter was so necessary.
i hope the girls out there who relate so much to this story find someone who can tell them their love is so important! we are all both right and wrong and there’s no shame that can be had in that.
people will have their own reactions to the story presented in this book, it is hard hitting for sure-some of the dialogue and plot points left a weight in my chest similar to the weight hannah harboured. but above all, for a book about 2012 louisiana teens in love, it was amazing. the way religion was discussed was intricate and lovely & the presence of mrs carpenter was so necessary.
i hope the girls out there who relate so much to this story find someone who can tell them their love is so important! we are all both right and wrong and there’s no shame that can be had in that.
this book is amazing, they way it written and how you feel everything they are feeling is amazing.
it was perfect for what it was- which is depressing and evocative. Not the sort of story i need to read anymore, but beautifully done
see so its because so when so then and then and they they <3 and wow
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Can I give a book more that 5 stars, well I am,
This book was beautiful, and painful, and such an amazing story I think everyone should read. I don’t think I can write a good enough review to tell you how amazing this book was. The friendships and the break ups were so sad and so real this book brought me so much pain. My eyes were tearing up at about the halfway point and didn't stop until the ending.
Can I give a book more that 5 stars, well I am,
This book was beautiful, and painful, and such an amazing story I think everyone should read. I don’t think I can write a good enough review to tell you how amazing this book was. The friendships and the break ups were so sad and so real this book brought me so much pain. My eyes were tearing up at about the halfway point and didn't stop until the ending.