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Martian Heart - 3.75 stars

Sat in the car for almost 2 hours today, so I made really good head way!!

+ Annabel Lee - Edgar Allen Poe
+ Because I could not stop for Death - Emily Dickinson
+ Conscientious Objector - Edna St Vincent Millay

So far so good.

+ Spring and Fall to a Young Child - Gerard Manley Hopkins
+ Before the Battle - Siegfried Sasson

+ Choices - Tess Gallagher
+The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower - Dylan Thomas
+Buffalo Dusk - Carl Sandburg
+The World is Too Much with Us - William Wordsworth
+Ozymandiaz - Percy Bysshe Shelley
+There Have Come Soft Rains - John Philip Johnson
Birches by Robert Frost (excerpt)

I forgot so much of this book!

This book is like watching a really elaborate car crash in slow motion. I’m watching and they’ve reached impact but there’s a lot more crashing to do.

I hate to say it but the poems are all a bit same-y.

“I wondered what it felt like to move to a country where you didn't grow up. I had thought about that often since my sister got married. Do you become a character in a story native to that land, or do you, somewhere in your heart, want to return to your homeland?”

Reading this for a Habitica challenge. Can’t believe I haven’t yet.

This is so good. Not just is it about a malady that is little understood, but there is so much depth in addition. Added bonus: the narrator actually does a good job with the German pronunciation!