Dina’s Reviews > Yours Always: Letters of Longing > Status Update

I may be too biased against Hughes but this reads as a pile of poetic bs to appeal to his fans and polish his ego — can’t ever believe the sincerity of a guy who abused his wife, deliberately destroyed her diaries about that, and whose both gfs killed themselves — what are the chances of that if he was such a delicate sympathetic darling (a deeply biased and unsympathetic post-reading rant over, thank you)

Meh. FDR’s letter and the love story itself are so mediocre i’m annoyed they’re included

This whole collection is an emotional rollercoaster 😭😭😭

I’m not entirely sure if I have a stronger crush on Virginia Woolf or Leonard Woolf or even them as a power couple 🫠

“Dear turkey foot…” ok no whoever addresses a message to me like that is gonna burn

“That evening he drove to the cliffs and contemplated suicide, but ended up shooting pictures of the sunset instead.” 🤣 I feel you man

😭😭😭

Winston Churchill was such a cool boyfriend I swear

“But when one does not complain, when one seeks to dominate oneself with a tyrant’s grip, the faculties start in rebellion, and one pays for external calm with an internal struggle that is almost unbearable.” Charlotte B being a casual couch psychologist in her dramatic love letters