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I wanted to love this with all my heart..
even though we are following a great topic: how to be a writer, how a writer deal with a writing-kinda-slump, and what actually mean to tell a story, I couldn't connect with the main-character, i really didn't care about him.
Definitely I'm gonna check other Korelitz books, cause I really enjoyed his writing style. Unfortunately, this wasn't for me..
Not sure if this is a good book for me to start my first review on but ... let's try to review this one.
Firstly... The definion about poets from the beginning??!?! Wow S. So beautiful, yet so painful.
„What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music... And people flock around the poet and say:Sing again soon- that is,may new sufferings turment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful” - Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or
Now, the book...
audiobook: a-ma-zing . Highly highly recommend!!
the predator-prey
Writing style.
the writing
switching from poetry to prose, from myth and dreams to reality
stunning, emotional, beautiful
Inhale small fears they turn into doubts into words into ideas into anger into hatred into violence.Exhale large fears and large words they tumble back onto you it's easy to get buried by our own mirrors.Inhale small fears and they whisper and travel to your mind observe them and thank them for trying to protect you.Exhale acknowledgment of the beauty within your instincts and the courage to love small fears.Inhale hard love suck in the smell and reward reap eat chew swallow devour all the goodness and love that is given to you.Exhale calmness in acknowledgment of the beauty within the courage it takes to not fear love.
violence, drunkness, sexual assault (trigger warning for all of these!!)
but
shamans and spirits
I belong here in this world where nothing exists.
Dreams will follow you into the day to force action, to change what caused the anxiety. We never like to listen to ourselves, even when we know we have to. We plod on ignoring what we must be, what we are meant to be. We are taught to fear our instincts. We must hunt down and fall in love with the Fear, therefore defeating our self-doubt every day. This is followed by joy. This is followed by handing over control. This is followed by lightness. This is followed by freedom. This releases the dreams.
Sound is a conduit to a realm we cannot totally comprehend. The power of sound conducts our thoughts into emotions that then manifest in action.Sound can heal.Sound can kill.Sound is malleable. Sound can be a spear or a needle. Sound can create the wound and then stitch it. Sound can cauterize and materialize.
Read this, please. And after lets have a deep chat about it
And if you read it, and youve reached the end to this mess (thank youu), what are your thoughts about this one?
• “While there are some memories I wish I could dispose of, sometimes my memories are the only things that keep me sane.”
• “Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.”
• “Even if they steal all your memories, they can't steal the amazing life you led.”
