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The Language of Stars
The Language of Stars | Louise Hawes
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Sarah is forced to take a summer poetry class as penance for trashing the home of a famous poet in this fresh novel about finding your own voice. Sarahs had her happy ending: shes at the party of the year with the most popular boy in school. But when that boy turns out to be a troublemaker who decided to throw a party at a cottage museum dedicated to renowned poet Rufus Baylor, everything changes. By the end of the party, the whole cottage is trashedcurtains up in flames, walls damaged, mementos smashedand when the partygoers are caught, theyre all sentenced to take a summer class studying Rufus Baylors poetrywith Baylor as their teacher. For Sarah, Baylor is a revelation. Unlike her mother, who is obsessed with keeping up appearances, and her estranged father, for whom she cant do anything right, Rufus Baylor listens to what she has to say, and appreciates her ear for language. Through his classes, Sarah starts to see her relationships and the world in a new lightand finds that maybe her happy ending is really only part of a much more interesting beginning. The Language of Stars is a gorgeous celebration of poetry, language, and love from celebrated author Louise Hawes.
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Tehya16
The Language of Stars | Louise Hawes
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Mehso-so

This book was okay, but it wasn‘t my style. It took me forever to read because I couldn‘t really get into it. I think a main reason that it wasn‘t my favourite was that it never felt like there was a super suspenseful or exciting moment throughout the book. With that said, it still was very well written and had good character development. If you enjoy poetry I would give it a try, but this book was just simply not for me.

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Tehya16
The Language of Stars | Louise Hawes

I was reading and I got to a line where Fry says, "No thanks on the Kool-Aid." after calling the class he has to go to the “Baylor Cult”. It reminded me of the piece we read in class called “How to Be a Person” because it also referred to Kool-Aid. I had never heard of Kool-Aid having to do with cults until then and now it comes up again in my book. I found this really interesting that I could make that connection between these pieces of writing.

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Tehya16
The Language of Stars | Louise Hawes

So far, this book has been pretty good. I like that you get to learn a lot about the characters so you can really connect that their situations. Although, it feels like it got to the exciting parts in the beginning of the book so I am interested to see how the plot will progress.

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The Language of Stars | Louise Hawes
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I thought this was a cute #bestfirstline 😂 #24in48