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Love & Misadventure by Lang Leav
3.0

A collection of very short rhyming poems, all themed about love. Particularly, the progression of a relationship from infatuation to dissolution. It's very, very easy to read and about halfway through I figured out why. Or rather, I figured out what these poems remind me of so very much: A.A. Milne. You know his poetry books, Now We Are Six and so forth? If Milne grew up and started writing love poetry instead of children's poetry it would look exactly like this. The same sort of bouncy construction, the same very short phrasing. Like Winnie the Pooh has updated their definition of honey and gone gorging on regardless.

Which might sound slightly disparaging, but it's not meant to be! I like Milne's poetry, and I like this, and really there are far worse writers to be compared to.