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I ended up enjoying this a lot although words fail me a bit to describe why. Maybe it was being able to relate so closely to the descriptions of love and longing; he also has a gift to state some truth about a characters' life in a beautiful and startling way. Altogether, though, I wish the story was a bit less bleak!

Message today from my Paris Adventure Advent Calendar - thanks to @dabbe -

Wishing you peace and joy🎄

More #Litsy holiday cards in my mailbox today. Feeling the #love ❄️🩵🎄❤️📬 @EclecticBookLover @inthegreensandblues @MidnightBookGirl @peanutnine @ncsufoxes @dabbe

Starting another one by Shafak that my Library has. About the poet Rumi.

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It was almost a relief to end this book, just because hooks packs such an emotional punch into her work. Incisive and critically minded, hooks takes her scalpel to our culturally defined notion of familial and romantic love, cutting and reassembling it into a more expanded and just version of love. I picked up a used copy and was thrilled to find, months later, hooks‘s writing on the first page. Now all I have to do is change my name to Tracey.

“I wish that I could give you something...but I have nothing left.“

This is a children's poetry book about a tree that is selfless and gives everything it has to a boy. This book represents how much humans depend on nature to live. This story can also be looked at as a boy taking advantage of someone until they have nothing left to give. This book has many different representations, and this would be a good introduction to poetry, and a good book for an open discussion.