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Tarkabarka

Tarkabarka@bookwyrm.social

Joined 2 years, 4 months ago

Storyteller, author.

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Anne E. G. Nydam: Bittersweetness & Light (Paperback, Nydam Prints)

A kitchen window now and then looks out across a different world. An asteroid scanner …

My soul needed this book

This book was so good for my soul. It contains stories, poems and illustrations that are all centered on hope - not toxic positivity, but hope as resistance, small kindnesses as magic. The illustrations and the text, both works of the author, existed together perfectly. Many of the stories made me tear up, but in a happy, joyful way. Each was a self-contained story, eloquently written, with its own well-built world, but I knew that they would end on a hopeful note, and that made reading a joyful exerience too. I read it slowly so I could savor the stories and the poems individually. This book managed to be cozy and healing without ever being cheesy or cliché. I am so happy I got to read it.