moonbites's review against another edition
5.0
This was just so good. I think I stopped and sighed like three different times while reading through as I just drank the words in. It was like savoring the taste of wine.
My favorites from this collection are:
"Nothing Tastes as Good as Skinny Feels"
"If my Daughter Wrote a Poem"
"For my Daughter on a Bad Day"
There was such great themes of motherhood, existence, feminism, body acceptance, grief and love. I cried by the end of this, soaking in the idea of my own mother and how life continues to move forward at an alarming speed. I think about what I will be like at her age and where she will be. And it had me thinking about life and what it means.
Just beautiful.
Here is a great line from a poem I didn't mention earlier,
"For now just remember how you felt the day you were born: desperate for magic, ready to love."
- For the Advice Cards at Bridal Showers
My favorites from this collection are:
"Nothing Tastes as Good as Skinny Feels"
"If my Daughter Wrote a Poem"
"For my Daughter on a Bad Day"
There was such great themes of motherhood, existence, feminism, body acceptance, grief and love. I cried by the end of this, soaking in the idea of my own mother and how life continues to move forward at an alarming speed. I think about what I will be like at her age and where she will be. And it had me thinking about life and what it means.
Just beautiful.
Here is a great line from a poem I didn't mention earlier,
"For now just remember how you felt the day you were born: desperate for magic, ready to love."
- For the Advice Cards at Bridal Showers
suvata's review against another edition
3.0
• ModernMrsDarcy.com #MMD book flight pick for April 2022 #MMDBookClub (5 poetry collections flight picks this month)
Getting a little head start on National Poetry Month (April 2022). I am not usually a big fan of poetry. Probably because I haven’t read a lot of it and when I do I sometimes don’t understand it. Having said that, this was a short collection (120 pages) that I did understand and thought was quite relevant. I’m not saying I’m a big poetry fan after reading this book, but I did enjoy it.
Getting a little head start on National Poetry Month (April 2022). I am not usually a big fan of poetry. Probably because I haven’t read a lot of it and when I do I sometimes don’t understand it. Having said that, this was a short collection (120 pages) that I did understand and thought was quite relevant. I’m not saying I’m a big poetry fan after reading this book, but I did enjoy it.
aalysad's review against another edition
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
The cover of this book is beautiful. I didn’t resonate with it fully because I’m not married and don’t have children, but I plan on gifting it to my mom. The poems were very raw.
whitmc's review against another edition
5.0
This little book makes me so happy so many reasons. First, Kate Baer got us all to read poetry. Come on. Poetry! That dreaded quarter of freshman English we were all happy to leave behind us! Second, I have been reading Baer's writing since back when we were all bloggers on free blogger.com pages without perfect pictures staged for Pinterest (because it didn't exist yet) or social media (because no one used social media that way yet); it was just people writing and others commenting and connecting lives over ordinary things. Baer's top 10 lists were a hit, and her stories about her for son, then daughter made so many of us laugh about those early motherhood days. And when so many of us dropped our free sites, she kept going, evolving, writing and writing and getting better and better. And she was keeping the poetry under wraps, and then she released bits and bits and damn.
Poetry.
Poetry.