Things I Would Like to Do with You
There are very few books I will read more than once. Pride and Prejudice is my only old faithful. But this classic written by Waylon Lewis, rises to the top of my favorites.
When I feel pessimism, it takes something deeply heart-warming to thaw my icy-cold feelings.
This book did just that, and it’s the book I buy often to gift to friends. Aside from the touching writing inside, the details on the book cover, clothbound with a gold embossed floral pattern on the back make it the perfect gift to share.
Here’s a passage:
“I would like to hold your hand. For it is always the first time, when I hold your hand. For I am so enthusiastic that I hope you do not notice, and I have to constantly remind myself that I will lose you. For the future is all made up, none of this matters, these are just words. I would like to stop wordplaying, and see you.”
It’s a collection of prose-poetry, which is like poetic paragraphs, where Waylon Lewis essentially writes quiet love letters to different people in his life. The letters mostly are written to people who haven’t entered his life, yet he is creative and daring in imagining all the amazing, exhilarating adventures he would “Like to do with You.”
Sometimes flipping through the pages, it feels like he’s talking directly to me — and that type of portrayal of love and devotion makes a person believe in and want to find a fantastic kind of love again.
I carried Things I Would Like to Do with You with me throughout my travels in New York City, sometimes just reading a few lines, pages, or chapters, bit by bit. The true test of a good book is how often I read it, and how quickly. When I like a book more, I pick it up often but I read slowly to spend more time with the book.
Waylon Lewis writes vulnerably and truthfully. He writes about those deep hopes on love, universal desires completely relatable. I find myself daydreaming alongside his words, hoping to meet a person just as wonderful as he describes.
They’re intimate moments, but if you need to be reminded of the love worth waiting a lifetime for, and you’d love a love letter yourself? Waylon Lewis gives you hope that if he can dream up a love almost created by the stars, then you can find that love too.
Affiliate links may be used in posts from Adventures With Crystal. If a purchase is made through one of these links, we make a small commission, at no cost to you. This allows us to continue creating free content for our readers!
