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Let Me Be Like Water
Let Me Be Like Water | S.K. Perry
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'Intimate, ruthless, tender: this book is like medicine for the soul.' Nina George, author of The Little Paris Bookshop A beautifully poignant and poetic debut about love, loss, friendship, and ultimately, starting over. Twenty-something Holly has moved to Brighton to escape. But now that she's here, sitting on a bench, listening to the sea sway, how is she supposed to fill the void her boyfriend left when he died? She had thought she'd want to be on her own, but when she meets Frank, a retired magician who has experienced his own loss, the tide begins to shift. A moving and powerful debut, Let Me Be Like Water is a book about the extraordinariness hiding in everyday life; of lost and new connections; of loneliness and friendship.
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Tracyantoon
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This book was so beautiful and lyrical I couldn‘t stop listening to it. A girl (in her twenties I‘m guessing) loses her boyfriend in a tragic accident and this entire novel is her musings and remembering and trying to carry on with her life in the years afterward. The poetic cadence is gorgeous and you can feel the grief and loneliness underlying the whole book. It is stunning. So many amazing quotes to dissect here. 4⭐️

TerriGreen Wow. I removed this book from my TBR a while ago thinking it would be too sad. 4y
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Rhondareads
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When Monday brings a book you had high high on your wish list 👏👏📚💃🏼 @Melvillehouse for this lovely surprise.😁

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BookNAround
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A lovely and heartbreaking book about loss, grief, and the difficulty of continuing to live with this hollowness. Full review at http://booknaround.blogspot.com/2018/08/review-let-me-be-like-water-by-sk-perry....

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BookNAround
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This is heartbreaking and beautiful so far.

Wife Is that a Chihuly exhibit? 6y
BookNAround @Wife Yep. Hubby and I went to the Chihuly exhibit at the Biltmore for our anniversary. 6y
Wife Love ❤️ his outdoor art! Brian and I went to see a Chihuly exhibit at Frederik Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids a few years ago. 6y
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kerry
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This book is a beautiful, heartbreaking story of young love and young loss, a meditation on grief and what-could-have-beens and friendship and mental health, with glimpses of the sometimes cruel, sometimes magical ways the world works when life is shattered and we're left with nothing but the pieces. // Full review to come, but you're going to want to add it to your pre-order list immediately. (On sale August 2018 from @melvillehouse)

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TrishB
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I‘m not sure I can say it‘s a book to enjoy, there is so much sadness in it. But it‘s also has a lot of lessons about family and friendship and having anchors to stop you floating away (metaphorically and physically). The sea is also a separate, wonderful character.

I thought it was beautifully written and accurately portrays the pain of grief.

BookNAround I have this sitting beside my bed to be picked up soon. 6y
TrishB @BookNAround I‘ll look out for your review 👍🏻 6y
Ms_T Nice review 👍🏻 6y
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SandyW Stacked... Thanks d 6y
Kalalalatja Well, when you put it like that! #stacked 6y
Cathythoughts Beautiful review ❤️. Stacked 6y
RohitSawant Wonderful review! 6y
TrishB @Ms_T @Cathythoughts @rohit-sawant thank you 😁 6y
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TrishB
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Lovely new books in the mail today and a great postcard from Cathy 😁😁 thank you x

Birdsong28 I have Old Baggage from #Netgalley . Not got round to it yet lol!! Enjoy 📚📖 6y
TrishB @Birdsong28 not sure when I‘ll get to it either! But was in a good offer 👍🏻 6y
LeahBergen Old Baggage sounds good. 👍🏻 6y
TrishB @LeahBergen I think it may go up the tbr quickly 😁 6y
Cathythoughts The books look interesting.. & so glad the postcard arrived 👍🏻 6y
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HotCocoaReads
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Beautifully written book with short poetic chapters that read like a collection of poetry. The grief feels authentic and real, but sometimes it‘s hard to like grieving people and sometimes I didn‘t like Holly. I adored the man who befriends her, Frank. He‘s a collector of people who need friends and brings Holly together with a group of people to help her through as well. The story is one of healing.

Rating: There is a lot of sexual content...