The Weights We Carry by C.D .Seventeen

By Emma Fitzgerald -
Thank you @CDSeventeen and @literallypr for being part of this tour and reviewing this book. The Weights We Carry is beautiful poetry about a journey around the Scottish Islands. I enjoyed reading these poems and my favourites are Intentions, Hope, Heroism and Curses. I love the pictures and watercolour swirls they are beautiful and work well with the poems .5 stars. This is the first book of poems I have read by C. D. Seventeen but I definitely will read more in the future. All the beautifully written poems were heartwarming. The Weights we carry is a poetry book you can keep coming back to over-time. Blurb I want to leave this world behind, jump on a bike, go on a journey without others, dive deep into the self, and let the weight of my human identity dissolve into the wind. In the wilderness, I see my emotions floating in silence, and I repaint them with my colour. I hear the purpose of my life defined by others washed away in the rivers, and I rewrite them with my own melody. I taste the bitterness of my history while I bury my sorrows under the pink-coloured beach on a remote island. My past and future end in the pouring rain while I merge my soul with the spirit of the sky creatures. Then I know what it means to be free... About the Author 'The Weights We Carry' is the first poetry collection from C.D. Seventeen, documenting her solo bike-packing adventure around the Scottish highland and Orkney Islands. A trip with a total distance of 658 miles (1058.95 kilometers) and a duration of forty-six days, with mostly wild camping. C.D. Seventeen is originally from China. She moved to the UK at the age of 17 on her own to study psychology. She was born in a place called "the south of clouds" (Yunnan province of China), an area with drastic diversity of landscape, religion, culture, music, and arts. "Whoever can speak is a singer, whoever can walk is a dancer" is a famous saying in the country, which describes the artistic Yunnan people. C.D. Seventeen is not an exception. Apart from writing poems, she is also a techno music artist, DJ, and painter.

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