Our souls at night book reviews3/16/2023 ![]() ![]() What you’re experiencing is not wrong, it is totally and utterly right. Something within you is slowly transforming and gestating – but it demands quietness, slowness, solitude, and the willingness to let go into not-knowing. This Dark Night of the Soul that you’ve been cast into is not a punishment, but a womb. This end that we speak of is the end of illusion, the end of soul-crushing ways of living, the end of the blinkers that have been placed over your eyes for your whole life. ![]() It is a wake-up call, a metaphysical cocoon, and a disintegration of the old so that the new can grow. This dark abyss that you’re traveling through is actually an initiation. His books will speak to your soul as well as your heart.Note: there is no physical version of this journal, however, you will receive a 100% printable version (can be printed at home, at your local library or print shop) and a digital version to use on your phone, tablet or laptop Welcome, dear tired wanderer, to the beginning of the end.ĭon’t be alarmed. I am definitely going to have them all on my shelves. He writes simply, yet tender and beautiful. I will not go into the rest of the book, as it unfolds so beautifully that I believe that it has to be read the way the author wrote it, not how I explain it.ĭo yourself a favor and pick up any book you can get your hands on by Kent Haruf. The three of them become close and they take the boy on many outings and Louis even gets him a dog. Louis stays away for a short while, but then Addie tells him that it is okay to resume their nightly regimen. One day Addie’s son calls and wants her to let her grandson come and stay for awhile while he is sorting out some marital issues. After that, they no longer keep their arrangement secret as they begin to venture out and spend time doing things together during the day. He always waits until after dark and uses the back door as he doesn’t want people to talk, (they do anyway…) but Addie tells him that she doesn’t care what people think and that they are not doing anything shameful. Louis accepts and soon begins his nightly trek to her house every evening and then promptly leaves when they awake. She goes on to explain that she misses the closeness of having someone next to her at night, and the comfort that it provided. She explains that having spent most of her life with her husband, she finds the night to be especially lonely and has a hard time sleeping. It starts when Addie goes to Louis’s home and presents a proposition that he come to her house at night and share her bed….for company and conversation. The story is about two people in their twilight years who have both lost their spouses and live alone. The book is tenderly portrayed, and although the ending broke my heart, but I would still definitely recommend it. I read this one quickly, and found myself getting completely attached to the main characters, Addie and Louis. I found Our Souls At Night to be a simplistic story that packs a huge emotional punch. There is not a lot of flowery details or background, but you still totally get what the author is trying to get across. Our Souls At Night is a story that contains mostly dialogue between the characters. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide. ![]() Their brave adventures-their pleasures and their difficulties-are hugely involving and truly resonant, making Our Souls at Night the perfect final installment to this beloved writer’s enduring contribution to American literature. His daughter lives hours away in Colorado Springs, her son even farther away in Grand Junction, and Addie and Louis have long been living alone in houses now empty of family, the nights so terribly lonely, especially with no one to talk with. Her husband died years ago, as did his wife, and in such a small town they naturally have known of each other for decades in fact, Addie was quite fond of Louis’s wife. In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf’s inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters. Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupĪmazon | Barnes & Noble | The Ripped Bodice | Google Play BooksĪ spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future. ![]()
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