This sounds like a beautiful book and your review, Barb, was beautifully written. My best friend forever and I both knew the first time we met that we were meant to meet in this life and believe we have been together in other lives. As a card she sent me says, "Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends." - Hafiz
I hadn't heard of this one... but it is such a coincidence because I have been having a long conversation with an old friend about the days of writing letters and how much that used to mean. When I was young I loved buying the collections of letters and of diaries, where famous authors would also transcribes letters they had written or received. Something has really been lost... I was working on a short essay of my own about this really moving piece in the New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/how-to-live-forever
It really, is--and unusual. Hope you like it as much as I did.
It really is--and unusual, too. Friendship isn't written about as much as it should be.
LOVE the quote!
This sounds like a beautiful book and your review, Barb, was beautifully written. My best friend forever and I both knew the first time we met that we were meant to meet in this life and believe we have been together in other lives. As a card she sent me says, "Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends." - Hafiz
This sounds like a wonderful read--friendship is indeed complicated, uplifting, powerful. Adding to The List!
Always feel free to share!
Yes. The disappearance of letters is a huge loss. So much of history is in the personal accounts the world, sent in letters.
Yes!
I hadn't heard of this one... but it is such a coincidence because I have been having a long conversation with an old friend about the days of writing letters and how much that used to mean. When I was young I loved buying the collections of letters and of diaries, where famous authors would also transcribes letters they had written or received. Something has really been lost... I was working on a short essay of my own about this really moving piece in the New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/how-to-live-forever
Good fiction not only lays out the incredible and fantastic that's "out there," but defines our own lives in a way we never could, I think.
Sounds interesting. I may share this blog with a group of my high school friends. Lots of readers in that group and some free spirits too.
You'll love it!
Thanks for this! Ordering the book now.