En Grand Central Station me sente y llore/ Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

from Ma_Washigeri

Over a year to read this slim book. She lays her heart so bare that I could only read this in moments of emotional calm. A tribute to the writing is that I could leave it by the bedside for months and then pick up and read on as if I had laid it down only the night before. Have 'read' it a secon...

from Ma_Washigeri

Over a year to read this slim book. She lays her heart so bare that I could only read this in moments of emotional calm. A tribute to the writing is that I could leave it by the bedside for months and then pick up and read on as if I had laid it down only the night before.Have 'read' it a second ...

from gypsysmom

Such a beautifully written book! Every page is imbued with the passion Smart felt for her lover, George Barker. Though, since Barker was married and a Catholic, their love would forever be carried out in secret or if not secret then without the approbation of society. At one point, as detailed in...

from james.d.gifford

I still can't believe this book doesn't make course lists... Smart is utterly stunning.

from stevencudahy

A prose poem of exquisite beauty, a tale of the overwhelming love of an intelligent, articulate woman for a man unworthy of her, a long drawn-out howl in the service of the idea that love can change the world for the better while simultaneously causing grief and mayhem wherever it goes. This is a...