dllh's reviews
696 reviews

A nice look at Victorian people of letters and basic human rights. This is both funny and serious.

I liked a lot of these poems. There's a strong iambic current in the book, which I find appealing.

This one's pretty horrifying, and it's hard not to think of it as prophetic of a potential future at least in America. There's a little sci-fi-ish element to this one too, which is neat.

This is great for book lovers, as it is, in part, a tribute to local independent bookstores. It's also in part a pandemic book. And it'd hardly be Erdrich if it didn't include slices of life from Indigenous Americans. A lovely read.

Did not love this one. So many of the poems felt like prose just chopped up arbitrarily. This was particularly the case early in the book. Later on, poems felt more like poetry, but there just wasn't much here that resonated with me.

I initially felt as if Kingsolver had a tin ear for voice, but boy did this book grab me once I settled in. The story is compelling, some of the characters truly memorable, the message important. It was fun to compare Kingsolver's depictions of some of the truly Dickensian characters to Dickens's own portrayals.

I liked this collection a lot. The way Bartlett puts words on the page -- especially in the first section -- just felt exactly right to me, in terms of rhythms, pauses, occasional quirky punctuation. She turns a lot of good phrases, and each poem has a mood. I engaged with these more as artifacts of language than as vehicles for meaning, and I just really enjoyed reading them, probably more than I've enjoyed a full collection in a long time.

A very evocative set of poems. I picked this up from the publisher at a local small press fair and am glad I found it. 

Another nice book in this little mini-series within the Pern world.  I don't think I liked it as much as the prior two books, but I enjoyed it.

I really liked nearly every essay in this book, but it took me forever to read for what looked like a pretty short book. The book made me want to be better, to live more of a gratitude-focused life, to appreciate the natural world around me a lot more. Kimmerer writes lyrically and often beautifully, and I learned a lot of facts about nature and about indigenous cultures. Would definitely recommend.