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If you must die, I'll envy the earth

That wraps around your body.

thefallenauthor-deactivated2023

"When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

Between Lost and Found and Infinite | Kathy Kimbray

“There it is. The odd marrying of awful and perfect. The chorus of letting your shoulders drop and knowing it’s the only way.” excerpt from The Current

DISCLAIMER: I did receive an E-ARC, but this did not impact how I reviewed the book. These are my honest opinions on Between Lost and Found and Infinite.

I’ve never had the experience of reading a book, poetry or otherwise, loving it, but being left with a feeling I wasn’t supposed to read it. In ‘Between Lost…’, Kimbray is so open and raw, I feel like I had no right to be privy to words so incredibly personal.

The poems are divided into three parts: Lost, Found, and Infinite. Throughout Lost, Kimbray puts tragically beautiful spins on far too relatable themes of loss, regret, and yearning. Once working through those feelings, Found and Infinite take you on this journey of healing, moving beyond past pains and finding magic and beauty in every day life. The language used is beautiful, evoking the feeling of almost reading someone’s mind, processing their loss/healing/growth in real time, and seeing the truth of how they really feel and are.

Reading Kathy Kimbray’s poetry was an experience I was so glad to have 🖤 Highly recommend reading this (in a warm blanket with a Taylor Swift vinyl playing in the background)

#kathy kimbray #poetry #poems #review #bibliophile #bookworm #blookblr

booksaremyadventures

“Choose your words carefully, even the words you think, because they become seeds, and seeds become history.”

- Dance of Thieves

By Mary E. Pearson

1.29.22

There’s something tragically poetic

in forming from the dust of exploded stars,

only to be returned to a dust again.

My only hope is the wind takes you up in its arms,

and carries you back to the stars.

You were never meant to be confined with the rest of us;

the universe wanted you back

to dance among galaxies and keep company with constellations.

#poetry #grief #loss #death

The Lost Apothecary | Sarah Penner

“Killing and secret-keeping had done this to me. It had begun to rot me from the inside out, and something inside meant to tear me open.”

#the lost apothecary #Sarah Penner #bibliophile #bookblr #book aesthetic #moodboard #apothecary

daweyt

arabic poetry is so beautifully yet painfully romantic, i mean “they asked “do you love her to death?” i said “speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life" and “because my love for you is higher than words, i've decided to fall silent" and "it is not enough to say love in Arabic, you must say 'be the thing that buries me'" could have got jane austen crying and shaking

euripideez-nuts

She grows up feeling wrong, out of place, too dark, too tall, too unruly, too opinionated, too silent, too strange. She grows up with the awareness that she is merely tolerated, an irritant, useless, that she does not deserve love, that she will need to change herself substantially, crush herself down if she is to be married

Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell

What We Devour | Linsey Miller

I generally don’t post about current reads like this, but at 50 pages in, I have to rave already!! First things first, ‘The Gods Kept Fighting Us So We Ate Them’ is an AMAZING concept— absolute chefs kiss right there.

Main character Lorena has the power of the Vile and the Noble within her, but what makes her so incredible to me is her creative approach in sacrifices along with her ability to exist outside of a stringent set of rules placed on the wrought (mortals with bits of the banished gods in them). And this weird, super formal (non romantic) chemistry she has with the Heir who contracted her to work for him? Amazing— their back and forth is truly great. I think banter can lean a little too quilt sometimes, but their dialogue is truly great.

I haven’t had a book that enraptured me this much in a while— I’m so excited to continue my journey with Lorena 🖤

#what we devour #Linsey Miller #bookblr #bibliophile #current read

yowastelandbaby

When Emily Dickinson said "Susan I would have come out of eden to open the door for you if I had known you were there."

And when Hozier said "I slithered here from eden just to sit outside your door."

desology

Chateau Rolls Royce

An abandoned Belgian house that dates back to the 18th century. - Obsidian Urbex Photography

Six Crimson Cranes | Elizabeth Lim

“‘Find the light that makes your lantern shine,’ she used to say. ‘Hold on to it, even when the dark surrounds you. Not even the strongest wind will blow out the flame.’”

#six crimson cranes #Elizabeth Lim #book aesthetic #bibliophile #bookblr #moodboard #fantasy #fairytale #bookstagram #retelling

Scarred | Emily McIntire | 2/36

#book review #bookblr #scarred #bibliophile #romance

of-foolish-and-wise

oh, to be the owner of a small bookshop on a cobblestone street with roses climbing the front of the building, where books are stacked about in piles and there’s always coffee brewing and a sleepy shop dog lifts his head at the sound of the door’s bell and thumps his tail against the hardwood