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Synne Lea

Author of Night Guard

4 Works 34 Members 8 Reviews

Works by Synne Lea

Night Guard (2016) 24 copies
Leo und das ganze Glück (2012) 8 copies
Alt er noe annet (2003) 1 copy
Å (2014) 1 copy

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This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
This is a lovely gem of a book containg pages of poems with incredibly beautiful illustrations. I've had this book for awhile, and finally picked it up by chance to read, and I'm so glad I sat down in a comfortable chair and read the poems, some of which spoke to me, but, all of them are good!

Highly Recommended.
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When Mom cries, she cries only
because she's happy, Dad says.
it's when she smiles

it's impossible
to know what she's thinking.

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There are trees
that hardly think at all
They just stand there swaying
exactly as much
as the wind makes them.

And then there are trees
that think all the time.
on some days
it's just a question
of knowing the song.

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First my friend
laughs, and afterward
I do.

Then the laughter is
precisely long enough.
I can wind it
three times around my neck,
and get it to warm me
half the winter.
… (more)
 
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Whisper1 | 7 other reviews | Mar 10, 2024 |
Surreal poetry and illustartions. Eerie. Dreamy. Beautiful. Melancholy. Sweet.

I kept wondering, "Oh my! Who died?" and "Why is this in the children's section?"

It is very good and very strange. My two favorite things.
 
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Sassy_Seshat | 7 other reviews | Sep 26, 2021 |
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
I am not a poetry lover, but I did enjoy reading these short bits. It is, in my mind, a book of very short stories about the winter. I received this book in the summer - now that it is getting colder, I am re-reading it and in the night chill it resonates much more deeply.
½
 
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PallanDavid | 7 other reviews | Oct 30, 2016 |
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
I won "Night Guard" on LibraryThing. It's a story about a family told in poetry form. Very good.
 
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BevFuller | 7 other reviews | May 14, 2016 |

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