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    Love & Misadventure

    By Lang Leav

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    About this ebook

    The journey from love to heartbreak to finding love again is personal yet universal. Lang Leav's evocative love poetry speaks to the soul of anyone who is on this journey.  Leav has an unnerving ability to see inside the hearts and minds of her readers. Her talent for translating complex emotions with astonishing simplicity has won her a cult following of devoted modern poetry fans from all over the world. Forget the dainty, delicate love poems of yore; these little poems pack a mighty punch.

    Lang Leav is a poet and internationally exhibiting artist. Her work expresses the intricacies of love and loss. Love & Misadventure is her first poetry collection.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrews McMeel Publishing
    Release dateSep 17, 2013
    ISBN9781449456467
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    Love & Misadventure
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    Lang Leav

    Novelist and poet Lang Leav was born in a refugee camp when her family were fleeing the Khmer Rouge Regime. She spent her formative years in Sydney, Australia, in the predominantly migrant town of Cabramatta. Among her many achievements, Lang is the winner of a Qantas Spirit of Youth Award, Churchill Fellowship and Goodreads Reader’s Choice Award.  Her first book, Love & Misadventure (2013) was a break out success, and her subsequent poetry books have all been international bestsellers. In 2016, Lang turned her attention to fiction, and her debut YA novel Sad Girls shot to #1 on the Straits Times and other bestseller charts internationally. 

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    • 5/5
      wonderful collection of soulful poetry. Easy to read with no need to read between the lines. Straightforward and exactly what I needed!
    • 4/5
      A mix of beauty and mediocrity. The prose poems gave me chills, but some of the others in verse were just too simple.

      B-
    • 4/5
      This is about 3.5 stars. This was lovely and had some beautiful works inside it. However, it didn't resonate with me like I expected. After reading other books of modern poetry (which is a very new thing for me), and after seeing such praise for Lang's work, I expected to fall head over feet in love with this. And I didn't. That being said, this is a wonderful book of poetry and prose. I enjoyed reading it and look forward to reading more of Ms. Leav's work. I also think a second reading of this book could be in my future. For now I will say I did enjoy it.
    • 2/5
      While some poems did remind me of when I was heartbroken and sad and other poems reminded me how happy I am right now, I still wasn't a huge fan of the book. Some poems were really good and some were just not doing it for me. Would I spent $20 on this book? No. Do I think she is talented? Yes I do.

      Maybe I'm not the best judge of this book because I hardly read poems but this book just feel short for me. I may still check out her next book to see if her poems get any better.
    • 2/5
      Quotable material, for sure, but it has no sense of build-up to a climax or music that i dig in poetry. It is more like texting, frankly. I won't give it a 1 star rating because I did not hate it. I am giving it a 2 stars rating because Leav wrote the below:

      Art and Books

      Without a doubt,
      I must read,
      all the books
      I've read about.
      See the artworks
      hung on hooks,
      that I have only,
      seen in books.
    • 5/5
      Such a beautifully written book, filled with little passages of modern poetry, that simply tells the truth. I can relate to it so easily, and I think this is the best thing an author could hope for.

      This woman is gifted and her choice of words is simply touching and so beautiful. Bravo!

      Can't wait to get my hands on Lullabies.
    • 3/5
      Love & Misadventure is a collection of poems about the different stages of love. I liked a few of them, but most aren’t anything remarkable & memorable. Thought it was a decent first collection of young love poems.
    • 2/5
      It is a poetry book. I am not a fan of poems. I don't really know how to appreciate it. Truthfully, I didn't like it. I just breezed through it.
    • 3/5
      I am not a huge poetry fan, just to start out. I liked this book; there were even some poems that struck a chord for me throughout. However, many of the poems struck me as a bit childish. As I said, I'm not a good judge of poetry; I only know what I feel. As there a handful of poems that I really liked, I gave it a three star rating. I loved her drawings, however. They were pretty.
    • 5/5
      "For she is his poet, And he is her poetry." I am in love with each poem of this book. I love reading poems like these that need not use heavy, ooh-i-think-you're-smart-because-you-used-that-word-i-don't-even-understand -esque words but rather describes how one feels. Despite the complexity of feelings of the speaker, the poems managed to deliver those complexities with just simple words and few lines and collection of pure emotions.
    • 3/5
      Unpretentious poetry: sentimental and silly; mushy and melancholy; loquacious and lamentatious. Opposing forces in.... well, love and misadventure. Honest to the point of being blunt -- as the ups and downs of love/infatuation are wont to render one to dramatism. A little bit limerick-y and Shel Silverstein-like.
    • 5/5
      Very pleasing to the heart and mind when experiencing love, really something to think about all the time when in or not in love.
    • 5/5
      Fall 2020 (November);

      I have a deep abiding love for Leav and I'm starting my way through the hardcover collection of hers I've been slowly collecting in my house. I love just how much punch she can pack into 3-4 lines, whether it's anger or hurt or fear or love. I find my breath caught everywhere where it comes to her, and I'm really going to enjoy reading all of her pieces in linear order this go.
    • 4/5
      This is about 3.5 stars. This was lovely and had some beautiful works inside it. However, it didn't resonate with me like I expected. After reading other books of modern poetry (which is a very new thing for me), and after seeing such praise for Lang's work, I expected to fall head over feet in love with this. And I didn't. That being said, this is a wonderful book of poetry and prose. I enjoyed reading it and look forward to reading more of Ms. Leav's work. I also think a second reading of this book could be in my future. For now I will say I did enjoy it.