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"A friend gave this book to me, and I was just so struck by how beautifully the sentences were designed. The narrative is meditative and poetic. It seems a very accurate telling of what it is to be married — that is, for a fairly privileged white person to be married. At moments I would just stop, amazed by how elegant Salter's prose is and how carefully he portrayed the inner lives of these people. The characters are estranged from each other, and I think maybe Salter is saying that it's impossible to ever know somebody — that we can't fully connect: As much as we struggle to and want to, it's not entirely possible."

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Last Days of Ava Langdon

Mark O’Flynn

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Light Strings: Impressions of the Guitar

Ralph Gibson and Andy Summers

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A gorgeous exploration in word and image, Light Strings pairs master photographer Ralph Gibson with...

100 Selected Poems

E.E. Cummings

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E.E. Cummings is without question one of the major poets of this century, and this volume, first...

Girls of Paper and Fire

Natasha Ngan

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Lei is of the Paper caste, the lowest and most oppressed class in Ikhara. Even so, rumors of her...

Far, Far, the Distant Peak: The Life of Wilfrid Noyce Mountaineer, Scholar, Poet

Stewart Hawkins

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Songs in Motion: Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied

Yonatan Malin

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Scholars, critics, and performers alike have long been fascinated by the distinctive blend of music...

Insurgent, Poet, Mystic, Sectarian: The Four Masks of an Eastern Postmodernism

Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh

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Philip Larkin an Outsider Poet: Transcendence of Solitude, Sex and the Ordinary

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Strange the Dreamer

Laini Taylor | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry, Young Adult (YA)

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Delicious descriptions (2 more)

Fantastical setting

Well written

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On the second Sabbat of Twelfthmoon, in the city of Weep, a girl fell from the sky. Her skin was blue, her blood was red.

From the from the opening to the last page this story sucked me in and didn't let me go. Granted it was slow at times but the descriptions were so intoxicating. It could easily have been too poetic or too much but the author always seemed to toe the line just right. Recommended if you're in the mood for a dreamy romantic fantasy.

"'You're a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable,' she pleaded. 'Something beautiful and full of monsters.'
'Beautiful and full of monsters?'
'All the best stories are.'"