Yeah, that pretty much sums up my experiences with poetry.
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Yeah, that pretty much sums up my experiences with poetry.
'Excited, afraid, homeless, fat, dying, but at least if we made that first step we had somewhere to go, we had a purpose. And we really didn't have anything better to do at half past three on a Thursday afternoon than to start a 630-mile walk.'
“The road ahead isn‘t always easy, but there‘s always a way through.”
so-soa tale of a family‘s journey through Jim Crow America, relying on the “Green Book” to find safety while traveling.
pickYou can judge a book by the amount of tabs you use. I think there were times her word choices were a show of brains BUT as someone who used to live in not their birth country; I get her. I get the need to go. I get her faith journey and feelings. Angry or otherwise. I get the lessons. Though some of word choices I didn‘t like, well written. You see her as a person.
pickLike seemingly everyone else, I found out about this book through the (excellent) podcast, Backlisted. It was every bit as strange and compelling as they described it, like a walking tour of Kent directed by David Lynch, covering two centuries' worth of murder, depravity, and madness. In my experience there are few places with such sinister vibes as a decaying seaside town, and this book captures that feeling in spades.
