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Dear You
Dear You is a lovely invitation into Derra Nicole Sabo's world.
A wonderful opportunity borne out of a complex and challenging experience, to recall the good times with loved ones, the chance to express the rarely spoken profound specifics of what binds friends and family together.
This is a heart-warming collection of letters to loved ones that explores the wonder, frailty and extraordinary qualities of friendship, family, love and life.
A wonderful opportunity borne out of a complex and challenging experience, to recall the good times with loved ones, the chance to express the rarely spoken profound specifics of what binds friends and family together.
This is a heart-warming collection of letters to loved ones that explores the wonder, frailty and extraordinary qualities of friendship, family, love and life.
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July 3, 2018
What a refreshing and positive read! I really enjoyed this book. The Author wrote it as a personal letter to someone that was special to her, each chapter. The pictures were an endearing touch, making the read all that more touching and real. I highly recommend this book to anyone.
August 14, 2017
This book is told as a series of letters.
At first when I started reading, I became lost in the story.
The letters to family and a close friend have many memories, small pictures and emojis in them.
Even though the author and I are of different generations, some memories and feelings are almost not quite the same but similar.
The descriptive words in some places are poetic e.g. "a sunset dipped in neon".
Part way through it seemed as if some letters were out of place and it took away from the cohesiveness of the whole for me.
It is about half way through before you learn what EB is.
At he end is the author's playlist. I am of an older musical generation so I am not familiar with the songs or artists that are on it.
I wonder how it would be to copy the playlist and play it as you read the book if you know the songs or artists.
At first when I started reading, I became lost in the story.
The letters to family and a close friend have many memories, small pictures and emojis in them.
Even though the author and I are of different generations, some memories and feelings are almost not quite the same but similar.
The descriptive words in some places are poetic e.g. "a sunset dipped in neon".
Part way through it seemed as if some letters were out of place and it took away from the cohesiveness of the whole for me.
It is about half way through before you learn what EB is.
At he end is the author's playlist. I am of an older musical generation so I am not familiar with the songs or artists that are on it.
I wonder how it would be to copy the playlist and play it as you read the book if you know the songs or artists.
June 16, 2018
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*I was sent a copy of this book for review as part of a blog tour. All opinions are honest and my own*
I'm just going to start this off by saying I loved this. It's the first read in a while, where I just feel so connected to what is being told. Dear You is a collection of letters, written by Derra to family and friends, narrating parts of her life. In such a short space of time, you learn so much about Derra and what she has been through, both the good and the bad and more importantly, how she has come back from the bad.
I loved the format of this and the personal feel to each letter. It just felt like such a unique experience and almost felt like I was joined with Derra, following her journey for real.
Each letter told a new part of Derra's story, it was a new connection to Derra. I felt like I had known her all my life, but also that I hadn't.
The depth to each letter, reading all these glimpses of events that happened to Derra made me so emotional. I never really cry at books, but everything about this one seemed to make me feel such strong emotions and I felt I had a real connection to Derra, despite having next to no similarities.
There were some hard bits to get through in this story and I only managed to get through them because I realised that for me to be reading about them, meant they had actually happened to Derra, It was like a rollercoaster of emotions reading letter to letter, but one I'm glad I went on.
I loved the relationship Derra has with her father, with the water fights etc. It was such a cute father, daughter relationship and made me smile for them. I also enjoyed reading about the letters to both her sister and her brother, showing the sibling relationships that I can relate to very much. It seemed to push this really important family dynamic and it was interesting to see this from a different persons' perspective.
Along the way there are some quite motivational and inspiring moments as we read about the problems Derra has overcome and how she has managed to become such a strong person. I really loved these bits and felt I could relate so much.
Overall, I'm really glad I got the chance to read and review such an important, but also personal book. I'd definitely recommend this to anyone, but please keep in mind this book does cover some dark topics and these may be sensitive to some people. I'm definitely going to keep an eye out for more work from Derra and hope it can have as much of an affect as Dear You had on me.
Rate - 4.25/5
GR - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
*I was sent a copy of this book for review as part of a blog tour. All opinions are honest and my own*
I'm just going to start this off by saying I loved this. It's the first read in a while, where I just feel so connected to what is being told. Dear You is a collection of letters, written by Derra to family and friends, narrating parts of her life. In such a short space of time, you learn so much about Derra and what she has been through, both the good and the bad and more importantly, how she has come back from the bad.
I loved the format of this and the personal feel to each letter. It just felt like such a unique experience and almost felt like I was joined with Derra, following her journey for real.
Each letter told a new part of Derra's story, it was a new connection to Derra. I felt like I had known her all my life, but also that I hadn't.
The depth to each letter, reading all these glimpses of events that happened to Derra made me so emotional. I never really cry at books, but everything about this one seemed to make me feel such strong emotions and I felt I had a real connection to Derra, despite having next to no similarities.
There were some hard bits to get through in this story and I only managed to get through them because I realised that for me to be reading about them, meant they had actually happened to Derra, It was like a rollercoaster of emotions reading letter to letter, but one I'm glad I went on.
I loved the relationship Derra has with her father, with the water fights etc. It was such a cute father, daughter relationship and made me smile for them. I also enjoyed reading about the letters to both her sister and her brother, showing the sibling relationships that I can relate to very much. It seemed to push this really important family dynamic and it was interesting to see this from a different persons' perspective.
Along the way there are some quite motivational and inspiring moments as we read about the problems Derra has overcome and how she has managed to become such a strong person. I really loved these bits and felt I could relate so much.
Overall, I'm really glad I got the chance to read and review such an important, but also personal book. I'd definitely recommend this to anyone, but please keep in mind this book does cover some dark topics and these may be sensitive to some people. I'm definitely going to keep an eye out for more work from Derra and hope it can have as much of an affect as Dear You had on me.
Rate - 4.25/5
GR - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
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