ivorgeoghegan's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
melvanstorm's review against another edition
my favourite was frida kahlo's letter to her husband asking him how the hell he managed to seduce so many women (incl her sister wtf) and cheat on her when he's "such an ugly son of a bitch"
no_rah_reads's review
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
sad
slow-paced
3.75
tonalli's review against another edition
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
3.75
Nick cave at the end was everything I needed.
chloekate99's review against another edition
5.0
What a beautiful book! I know I'm going to be reading this whenever I feel down as it uplifts me massively <3
ashmeet's review
5.0
Some of it was a not it but others (Steinbeck, Isaac Foreman, Feynman, Emilie Blachère) are going to stay with me for a long time
omwomack12's review
5.0
A selection of love letters I read in under 24 hours, each one beautiful and written with so much passion. It's nice to see the words of those we revere, it makes them seem more human, making the pedestal we have put them on wobble. I especially liked it in Frida Kahlo's letter to Diego Rivera, when she called him a "fucking horrible bastard." I've always turned to literature, the words of others, for solace. It has helped me to know that I'm not alone, that every experience I've gone through has happened to someone else and that, somewhere in time, they survived.
"How are the waters of the world sweet-if we should die, we have drunk them. If we should sin-or separate-if we should fail or secede-we have tasted of happiness-we must be written in the book of the blessed. We have had what life could give, we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, we have known, we have been the mystery of the universe."
"How are the waters of the world sweet-if we should die, we have drunk them. If we should sin-or separate-if we should fail or secede-we have tasted of happiness-we must be written in the book of the blessed. We have had what life could give, we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, we have known, we have been the mystery of the universe."