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A review by apriladventuring
Other People's Words by Lissa Soep
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
📚 2024 #32: “Other People's Words” by Lissa Soep
📕 This book is about deep platonic love and loss. Soep shares the stories of two cherished friends that are taken away; one slowly and one suddenly and unexpectedly. They live on not only through memory, but letters written, voicemails left, and favorite phrases uttered in conversations. Soep beautifully demonstrates the connection language has with our every experience, able to bring us back to another place and time -- and even to ones we've lost.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4/5: I loved the varied formats of text in this book: Soep's commentary, passages from books and letters, conversations held over email and text. It's clear Soep and her friends have a huge appreciation of language, which makes reading their words particularly moving. Seeing the decline of language in one of the friends was heartbreaking. This book made me want to send handwritten letters to all my friends and spend my mornings filling journals.
🤓 You should read this if you're grieving the loss of someone or simply want to read a beautiful story of change and aging.
🥰 Thank you to NetGalley and Spiegel & Grau for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.
📕 This book is about deep platonic love and loss. Soep shares the stories of two cherished friends that are taken away; one slowly and one suddenly and unexpectedly. They live on not only through memory, but letters written, voicemails left, and favorite phrases uttered in conversations. Soep beautifully demonstrates the connection language has with our every experience, able to bring us back to another place and time -- and even to ones we've lost.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4/5: I loved the varied formats of text in this book: Soep's commentary, passages from books and letters, conversations held over email and text. It's clear Soep and her friends have a huge appreciation of language, which makes reading their words particularly moving. Seeing the decline of language in one of the friends was heartbreaking. This book made me want to send handwritten letters to all my friends and spend my mornings filling journals.
🤓 You should read this if you're grieving the loss of someone or simply want to read a beautiful story of change and aging.
🥰 Thank you to NetGalley and Spiegel & Grau for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.