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A review by ajojobear
Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira
4.0
I never write reviews, but I had to for this one…
I hated this book while I was reading it and was convinced I’d give it one star, but by the 187th page and one of the countless letters to Kurt Cobain is where the connection happened.
“The world was too much for you. People were too close to you. You said it in one sentence I can’t get out of my head: I simply love people …so much that it makes me feel too fucking sad. Yes I understand.”
Once I finished the last page I had tears in my eyes. I honestly don’t know if I love this book in its entirety, But it is one I’ll pick up on my tough days and read the parts I annotated to try and make sense of things that make me feel too much.
LLTTD does have a feeling of “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” and maybe that’s why I initially had a problem with it in the beginning. But it is one book I’m glad to have read.
"What I told you about saving people isn't true. You might think it is, because you might want someone else to save you, or you might want to save someone so badly. But no one else can save you, not really. Not from yourself, You fall asleep in the foothills, and the wolf comes down from the mountains. And you hope someone will wake you up. Or chase it off. Or shoot it dead. But when you realize that the wolf is inside you, that's when you know. You can't run from it. And no one who loves you can kill the wolf, because it's part of you. They see your face on it. And they won't fire the shot. "
I hated this book while I was reading it and was convinced I’d give it one star, but by the 187th page and one of the countless letters to Kurt Cobain is where the connection happened.
“The world was too much for you. People were too close to you. You said it in one sentence I can’t get out of my head: I simply love people …so much that it makes me feel too fucking sad. Yes I understand.”
Once I finished the last page I had tears in my eyes. I honestly don’t know if I love this book in its entirety, But it is one I’ll pick up on my tough days and read the parts I annotated to try and make sense of things that make me feel too much.
LLTTD does have a feeling of “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” and maybe that’s why I initially had a problem with it in the beginning. But it is one book I’m glad to have read.
"What I told you about saving people isn't true. You might think it is, because you might want someone else to save you, or you might want to save someone so badly. But no one else can save you, not really. Not from yourself, You fall asleep in the foothills, and the wolf comes down from the mountains. And you hope someone will wake you up. Or chase it off. Or shoot it dead. But when you realize that the wolf is inside you, that's when you know. You can't run from it. And no one who loves you can kill the wolf, because it's part of you. They see your face on it. And they won't fire the shot. "