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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong

Start date: March 1, 2023

Finish date: March 31, 2023

Discussion: 2023 READS

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Mar 22, 2023 Cathi rated it really liked it

Shelves: contemporary

This was such a beautiful book. The writing style is absolute extraordinary. This book is written in form of letters but you can easily follow the story.

It deals with a lot of heavy problems such as mental disease, racism, queerness, family and war. In some moments the emotions felt so raw that I was convinced this book is partly an biography. Everything felt so real and reading this was such a beautiful experience but it hurt too.

The time skipping and jumping between moments was really well d ...more

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Aug 10, 2024 hailey rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: dnf-2024

here’s the thing:
i adored this book, the writing was magnificent and i loved how she described everything on the page. it made me forget that a author wrote it and it’s just ink on paper.
but…
i couldn’t get into the book whatsoever, i didn’t really know what was going on most of the time and everything so that’s why it got knocked down a couple stars to me. so technically it should be 2.5 stars.

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