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Wow. Just... wow.
Of the 30 poems in this volume, there wasn't one that I didn't enjoy. I have three definite favourites, though, so I'll briefly mention those:
2. Stars
I fell in love with this poem in the first stanza. It's just so beautiful and perfectly captures the mystery and comfort of the night.
11. To Imagination
I actually want a print of this to put up somewhere because she speaks so perfectly of what imagination is and why it is so essential, both to the individual and the whole world. So much love for this.
22.
It's only four lines, so I'll put it here:
Woods you need not frown on me
Spectral trees that so dolefully
Shake your heads in the dreary sky
You need not mock so bitterly
I don't know what exactly it is about this one; maybe it's that it's unlike any other depiction of a forest that I've read. Either way, I love it.
Of the 30 poems in this volume, there wasn't one that I didn't enjoy. I have three definite favourites, though, so I'll briefly mention those:
2. Stars
I fell in love with this poem in the first stanza. It's just so beautiful and perfectly captures the mystery and comfort of the night.
11. To Imagination
I actually want a print of this to put up somewhere because she speaks so perfectly of what imagination is and why it is so essential, both to the individual and the whole world. So much love for this.
22.
It's only four lines, so I'll put it here:
Woods you need not frown on me
Spectral trees that so dolefully
Shake your heads in the dreary sky
You need not mock so bitterly
I don't know what exactly it is about this one; maybe it's that it's unlike any other depiction of a forest that I've read. Either way, I love it.
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FEELS
FEELS
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CRYING
FEELS
SOBS
MORE FEELS
(I will try to keep this spoiler free!)
I was 7 years old when I first read The Wee Free Men (it had just come out, and my dad persuaded me to read it). Needless to say, I loved it. Tiffany immediately joined Hermione Granger and Matilda Wormwood in my List Of People I Want To Be (and let's face it, not much has changed). Between then and now I read all 39 other Discworld novels, plus lots of Sir Terry's other works, and as anyone who has ever spoken to me will tell you, am rather obsessed. I read The Wee Free Men so long ago that I can't actually remember reading it for the first time, and Discworld means as much to me as Harry Potter. (Almost). That is saying a lot.
When I found out that the last book would also be about Tiffany, I knew already that it would be an emotional read, because apart from anything else, I was starting and ending with a favourite character, a character that I'd grown up with - after all, each time a new Tiffany book came out, I hadn't been that far off age-wise.
It did not disappoint. At all. Even if this hadn't been the last book, this would have been one of my favourite Discworld books, and it felt all the more significant for the number of different characters (even more so than in Raising Steam) who popped up, often so we could see how their stories had ended, but they still contributed to the overall plot. There was also a slightly sad, cyclical nature; Equal Rites was, in many ways, the first Discworld book as we know it now, and many storylines from that were brought back or rounded off.
And, needless to say, I cried. And not the usual sniffle that I mean when I say 'I cried': I mean buckets. So, so, so many tears. I'm sure that a lot of that was, as previously mentioned, my relationship with Tiffany as a character - I've just finished my first year at university, and have just moved into my first house, and am really finding out who I am as an adult; which, of course, is what Tiffany's doing.
Nothing that PTerry writes is ever insignificant, but this was something else entirely. I have a lot more feelings about this, but I'll save them for another time, and maybe somewhere where I can put spoilers. But if you haven't read the Discworld series, get on with it. GNU Terry Pratchett.
FEELS
FEELS
CRYING
FEELS
SOBS
MORE FEELS
(I will try to keep this spoiler free!)
I was 7 years old when I first read The Wee Free Men (it had just come out, and my dad persuaded me to read it). Needless to say, I loved it. Tiffany immediately joined Hermione Granger and Matilda Wormwood in my List Of People I Want To Be (and let's face it, not much has changed). Between then and now I read all 39 other Discworld novels, plus lots of Sir Terry's other works, and as anyone who has ever spoken to me will tell you, am rather obsessed. I read The Wee Free Men so long ago that I can't actually remember reading it for the first time, and Discworld means as much to me as Harry Potter. (Almost). That is saying a lot.
When I found out that the last book would also be about Tiffany, I knew already that it would be an emotional read, because apart from anything else, I was starting and ending with a favourite character, a character that I'd grown up with - after all, each time a new Tiffany book came out, I hadn't been that far off age-wise.
It did not disappoint. At all. Even if this hadn't been the last book, this would have been one of my favourite Discworld books, and it felt all the more significant for the number of different characters (even more so than in Raising Steam) who popped up, often so we could see how their stories had ended, but they still contributed to the overall plot. There was also a slightly sad, cyclical nature; Equal Rites was, in many ways, the first Discworld book as we know it now, and many storylines from that were brought back or rounded off.
And, needless to say, I cried. And not the usual sniffle that I mean when I say 'I cried': I mean buckets. So, so, so many tears. I'm sure that a lot of that was, as previously mentioned, my relationship with Tiffany as a character - I've just finished my first year at university, and have just moved into my first house, and am really finding out who I am as an adult; which, of course, is what Tiffany's doing.
Nothing that PTerry writes is ever insignificant, but this was something else entirely. I have a lot more feelings about this, but I'll save them for another time, and maybe somewhere where I can put spoilers. But if you haven't read the Discworld series, get on with it. GNU Terry Pratchett.
MY POOR HEART COULDN'T TAKE THIS BOOK.
To say this was an emotional read is a huge understatement. I think I actually made some inhuman noises on the train while reading this.
The best thing about this book is how much John Boyne just 'gets' people. The characters are so real and tangible, and he brilliant balances the plot and characters. The subtlety with which he wrote is incredible; very few authors manage to make the readers care for the characters so, so much, while still getting across their underlying message with a combined emotional punch.
Conclusion? Just read it. I cannot recommend this book enough.
To say this was an emotional read is a huge understatement. I think I actually made some inhuman noises on the train while reading this.
The best thing about this book is how much John Boyne just 'gets' people. The characters are so real and tangible, and he brilliant balances the plot and characters. The subtlety with which he wrote is incredible; very few authors manage to make the readers care for the characters so, so much, while still getting across their underlying message with a combined emotional punch.
Conclusion? Just read it. I cannot recommend this book enough.
I tend to read emotional books. In my opinion, the best books are where you get swept up into the story, so invested in the characters' lives that when tragedy inevitably strikes, you feel it right there with them.
And then, this book happened.
First of all, I wasn't expecting to be hooked quite so quickly, unable to put the book down until I finished it the same day. There's a horribly real sense of foreboding, and I gasped out loud as the hope I'd held onto for the first part of the book vanished. It was all too real, and by the end I was holding back tears, not giving myself the time to cry and take it in because I couldn't bear not knowing what was going to happen.
It's a dark book, as it should be, and is brutally honest in its depiction of mental health and abuse. There's a lot packed into under 300 pages, and I'm sure I'll be reeling from this one for a long time, but boy, am I glad I read it.
And then, this book happened.
First of all, I wasn't expecting to be hooked quite so quickly, unable to put the book down until I finished it the same day. There's a horribly real sense of foreboding, and I gasped out loud as the hope I'd held onto for the first part of the book vanished. It was all too real, and by the end I was holding back tears, not giving myself the time to cry and take it in because I couldn't bear not knowing what was going to happen.
It's a dark book, as it should be, and is brutally honest in its depiction of mental health and abuse. There's a lot packed into under 300 pages, and I'm sure I'll be reeling from this one for a long time, but boy, am I glad I read it.
