| Weight | 0.31 kg |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Penwings Publishing |
| Language | English |
| Cover Type | Paperback |
| Shipping Time | 3 – 21 days depending on location |
Questions To Our Answers
RM 49.90
Author: Timothy Joshua Chia
Questions to our Answers is a poetry and fiction book written by Timothy Joshua.
It contains three main chapters, centered around answers to three main questions one would ask during different stages of a relationship.
The questions are:
What are we?
Where are we going?
How are we getting there?
The poems, juxtaposed together with short stories take readers on a deeply reflective journey within themselves as they contemplate the deepest thoughts, doubts and hopes they carry for their past and present relationships.
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Nur Atiqah Zakaria –
First, thanks to Penwings Publishing for sending me a copy of this book! Honestly, I never knew I would fall in love with poetry again until I read this.
Blurb
“Our eyes are but a pair of questions,
always in search for the right answer.
And in you, I think”
My heart is already twisted from this welcoming blurb, so ready your heart, and let us explore the most beautiful words and feelings in the world and what is in between.
This book is divided into three parts with each of them having its own short stories and poems that resonate with it. It is surprising how various kinds of feelings have been intensely crammed into just a few words. This makes the reading more impactful, delivered directly into one’s very heart.
This book carries the pieces of my heart in it. – Foreword
With that foreword, it’s no wonder that it feels so near to the heart. Legend says to have something made from the heart will make it easily acceptable for another heart. In the moment, reading the poem makes you imagine the scene in your head: the warmth of the sun, the blue color of the sky while on the plane, the busy sounds at the train station… ahh it makes you want to be free again, far away from this pandemic.
I’ll never be able to put you down or let you go
– you are and always will be my favorite book.
My fave poems are those with books mentioned; oh my God this is just so intimate to me as a reader, for that feeling of having your fave person by your side is like having your fave book close, always soothing and always making you want to ‘revisit’ by rereading it again. The author has done an amazing job on this piece!
Do you know what it feels like,
To type your name again, and again? – Online
The poetry in this book does not just talk about love, longing, and hope, but the feeling that has been collected between the gaps as well. The feeling that has been there the whole time but left unseen or ignored.
What surprised me the most? Even a short story and poem has their own twist! The writing in this book is true evidence that a plot twist also can exist in its sweetest form. This book ended with an epilogue you don’t want to skip.
Deep down I am thankful for this book, thank you @timoteijosh for this lovely piece, the kind of reading that makes words be able to echo feeling in themselves. Oh my, my expectations for poetry will never be the same again.
I recommend this to those who love simple yet dramatic prose, or to those who are beginners to poetry; you never know what book will make you fall in love with reading once again.
Biblio Mom –
“We are all questions, in search of the right answers- unwritten poes, infinite verses, waiting to be put into words.”
Poetry isn’t something you can force upon someone into liking it and I’m not really sure myself what kind of poetry do I like. But this rhymes and vibes with me effortlessly, as if some of the poems are about my past and my present, how I used to feel and what am I currently feeling. Consisting of three main questions we often asked to ourselves, and the stories of three couples whose going through different stages in their relationships, facing with so many different problems; self doubt, trust issues, careers, distance, emotions roller coasters, and facing commitments in life, Joshua have written this book brilliantly, honestly and lively.
The book consists of three chapters in question forms, which is What Are We?, Where Are We Going?, and How Are We Getting There?, and there are three epilogue/short stories, which is The Train, The Flight, and The Confession. Each chapters are started off with the first half of three short stories that has their continuation at the end of the book where their stories are given conclusions or an end respectively.
The poems are about falling in and out of love, rejection, unrequited love, empty promises, false hope, abusive relationship, or LOVE with all its happiness and sadness in general if I would say. Poems with bookish metaphore is definitely my kind of thing, take My Favourite Book as an example ;
I still remember the first time we met-
I was hooked from the synopsis,
and every page tool me out of this world.
I’ll never tire of reading and re-reading every page.
I’ll never be able to put you down or let you go-
you are and always will be my favourite book.
Reading these poems gave me a whole set of emotions; butterflies flutters in my stomach, giddiness, anger, warm, dissapointed, fluffy, happy. It somehow feels like a recollection of my love life in the past and present. I genuinely think these beautifully currated words are a piece of arts. There is also a crosswords puzzle poem on page 17. Its brilliant. Overall, Timothy’s poetry is very aesthetically instagrammable (if you know what I mean :D).
Annie Lorenzo –
No words can describe how this book made me feel. The collection of poems that Joshua had written took me on an emotional rollercoaster of happiness and sadness. I am the type of person to feel deeply, and the poetry itself was written so beautifully that it either brought wide smiles or tears to my face. One of his poems titled “Today and Yesterday” is one that I am sure I will remember in a long time. The smooth flow of the poem caught my eyes, as well as the doubt and hope that I got from the poem, are very relatable. I was caught up in toxic relationships before and now that I have met a genuinely nice person, I am always scared that it’ll burn but at the same time, also hopeful of what would become of our relationship in the future. This poem in particular resonates with me greatly, and I found myself re-reading this many times. Besides, I also love reading the short stories and how they also took me on a journey of self-reflection. I feel like when the author is writing these short stories, he is writing about my relationships. He writes short stories very well, and I can’t wait for Joshua to publish more books!