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4.03 AVERAGE
4.03 AVERAGE
fast-paced
emotional
fast-paced
adventurous
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
emotional
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inspiring
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
I’m not going to lie: my first and only formal introduction to Pablo Neruda was via How I Met Your Mother. I won’t even pretend to be embarrassed, because it’s my favorite show and quite frankly, my high school literature courses clearly failed me if that’s really the first time I had heard of a Nobel Prize winning poet. That being said, I was just talking to a book club member about how I never read poetry, so I figured why not start with one of the greatest? I’m still not totally sure if I “get” poetry, but the language (at least in the translation I read) was undeniably beautiful, and it makes me wish I understood enough Spanish to read these in their original form.
relaxing
fast-paced
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual content
emotional
inspiring
fast-paced
Finally got the opportunity to read and score the entire book. Beautiful. Heartbreaking. As it’s something I struggle with in my own writing, I appreciated the deep rooted connections between concrete earthly nature and love. The imagery was so rich, so moving. My favorite poem was “Tonight I Can Write”.
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