miraclecharlie 's review for:

Dear Mr. You by Mary-Louise Parker

4.0

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Fantastic read. Don’t miss it. Also, don’t read it all at once. Ms. Parker writes thirty-four letters to men who have touched her life, influenced her personal cosmology, shaped her emotional language and reality. These are mostly gorgeous, often insightful, wonderfully funny, touching, terrifying, and so very generous in their honesty and sharing of her truth and experience. But, again, I read them one at a time. No more than one a day. Sometimes just one a week. Because they are personal letters, to be cherished, savored, and not, so much, lumped in a great mass because they then lose their impact and become just words. And as I’ve said, it is important to give energy to the intent and essence behind the words others use, to allow time and space for the meaning beyond symbols of symbols for symbols we call language to wash over you, to move you, to touch you.

Original Review available on my blog, HereWeAreGoing, here: https://herewearegoing.wordpress.com/2016/01/05/reading-all-about-me-and-oh-right-dear-mr-you-by-mary-louise-parker/