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A review by rballenger
Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman
1.0
Type of read: Commuter Read.
What made me pick it up: One of my favorite books of all time is 'The Things They Carried' by Tim O'Brien. The title of 'Call Us What We Carry' caught me because it was so similar and I was hoping to add this one to a favorites list as well.
Overall rating: The first third of 'Call Us What We Carry' was beautiful and brilliant and really sucked you in. The second third of 'Call Us What We Carry' lost some of the lyricism and punch that I expected from Gorman. The last third of 'Call Us What We Carry' just made me angry because I felt like I was listening to someone's term paper about poems. I guess I just expected more and that made me incredibly disappointed.
Reader's Note: I enjoyed 'Call Us What We Carry' as an audiobook.
What made me pick it up: One of my favorite books of all time is 'The Things They Carried' by Tim O'Brien. The title of 'Call Us What We Carry' caught me because it was so similar and I was hoping to add this one to a favorites list as well.
Overall rating: The first third of 'Call Us What We Carry' was beautiful and brilliant and really sucked you in. The second third of 'Call Us What We Carry' lost some of the lyricism and punch that I expected from Gorman. The last third of 'Call Us What We Carry' just made me angry because I felt like I was listening to someone's term paper about poems. I guess I just expected more and that made me incredibly disappointed.
Reader's Note: I enjoyed 'Call Us What We Carry' as an audiobook.