How Do I Love Thee? {Book Review}

Saturday, August 29, 2009

How Do I Love Thee? {Book Review}

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Elizabeth Barrett is essentially a recluse. Although she is a published poet and has close relationships with her immediate family, she never ventures out of the house. Relationships with others outside of her family are almost non-existent.

Until a letter from Robert Browning arrives and changes her entire world.

Over the course of letter writing and eventual face-to-face meetings, a deeper relationship blossoms that threatens all that Elizabeth is familiar with in life. She stands to lose all that she has held dear ~ is their love worth the price?

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How Do I Love Thee? is the first book that I've read by Nancy Moser even though I've seen her books before. Having been an English major I was intrigued to read 'more' of the love story between the two poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Moser uses actual text of the letters between the two to help build the story ~ and their story is one that shows Divine intervention from start to end. I loved getting a deeper look into their lives and love and understanding more behind some of their well-known works.

Generally I'm able to read a fiction book quickly but for some reason I had a harder time with this one. Even though I was interested in the overall plot and storyline, it is written in the first person point of view ~ something I've only recently realized I don't enjoy reading. Overall though, the book provides a wonderful look into the romance of Robert and Elizabeth and it's so much easier to understand the Sonnets from the Portuguese after reading the book!

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I have a few books sitting next to my bed that I'm excited to read too!!