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gabipetersen's review against another edition
5.0
This is a modern poetry book. Some old school people may not like how the poem it’s written, but technicality apart, this book tells a beautiful story about a woman and her immigrant parents.
The autor tell us her life story, about relationships, about her family, about being a immigrant's daughter and she uses simple language and maybe that’s why it’s so relatable. I could feel her pain, I could see what she has been through.
Especially if you are a woman, you can see yourself in a lot of her poems.
The autor tell us her life story, about relationships, about her family, about being a immigrant's daughter and she uses simple language and maybe that’s why it’s so relatable. I could feel her pain, I could see what she has been through.
Especially if you are a woman, you can see yourself in a lot of her poems.
graciegrace1178's review against another edition
3.0
Interesting book that really made me think about language manipulation. The feminist ideas and empowering themes made me wish I had read it in middle school. The “falling” section specifically moved me, and I had to close the book for a bit and ponder. I love Rupi’s words and her style, but aside from the falling section, there wasn’t much I connected with. It was interesting getting a look at her relationships (and seeing what goes on in an abusive relationship mindset) and I loved the familial praise portions, but it just wasn’t as heart-wrenching for me as other people have claimed.
kells_'s review against another edition
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2.0
Okay, I really don't want to be a hater. I don't want to be a debby downer or shit talker, especially when it's obvious Rupi did put a lot of her emotions into this. She always infuses a lot of her own personal experiences, struggles, etc into her poetry. It's beautiful for sure. I've read a few other books by her.
However, I'm just simply not impressed. I felt like I couldn't even fully connect with her words. In the start, I felt like she was saying the same things over and over again repeatedly in different ways. How am I supposed to engage with that?
I also hate hate hate when she goes off on a ramble and it's like a chunky paragraph. I'm sorry, I detest that formatting with all my heart. She had a paragraph "poem" of about 18 lines detailing running into an ex-lover at a coffee shop. Girl, even if you wanted to give that message of how seeing him doesn't have the same effect anymore (bc u moved on, great), why the ramble like this?
On the flip side, sometimes she'll give like 5 words or 1 line and call it a day. For example, one page literally just said "never feel guilty for starting again." Thanks Rupi, but is that really a poem???? I can't, the formatting irked me so bad. Here's another example: "loving you was breathing but that breath was disappearing before it filled my lungs." Okay, so she broke this up into 3 lines. Cool. Is that a poem???
There was also some general cringey parts too. I'm sorry but what even is this:
"your voice does to me
what autumn does to trees
you call to say hello
and my clothes fall naturally"
Girl... what??? Lol I'm sorry...
I really wanted to like this but I guess it just wasn't my cup of tea, oh well.
However, I'm just simply not impressed. I felt like I couldn't even fully connect with her words. In the start, I felt like she was saying the same things over and over again repeatedly in different ways. How am I supposed to engage with that?
I also hate hate hate when she goes off on a ramble and it's like a chunky paragraph. I'm sorry, I detest that formatting with all my heart. She had a paragraph "poem" of about 18 lines detailing running into an ex-lover at a coffee shop. Girl, even if you wanted to give that message of how seeing him doesn't have the same effect anymore (bc u moved on, great), why the ramble like this?
On the flip side, sometimes she'll give like 5 words or 1 line and call it a day. For example, one page literally just said "never feel guilty for starting again." Thanks Rupi, but is that really a poem???? I can't, the formatting irked me so bad. Here's another example: "loving you was breathing but that breath was disappearing before it filled my lungs." Okay, so she broke this up into 3 lines. Cool. Is that a poem???
There was also some general cringey parts too. I'm sorry but what even is this:
"your voice does to me
what autumn does to trees
you call to say hello
and my clothes fall naturally"
Girl... what??? Lol I'm sorry...
I really wanted to like this but I guess it just wasn't my cup of tea, oh well.
skaurgo's review against another edition
emotional
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inspiring
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4.0
marimbagirl22's review against another edition
5.0
I love Rupi's writing, so simple yet it strikes the chord perfectly. Another quick read but a lot of pieces to ponder. I enjoy the simplistic art to go along with some of the pieces. It's almost as if they belong together, that you cannot have one without the other.
"a lot of times we are angry at other people for not doing what we should have done for ourselves - responsibility"
"It isn't blood that makes you my sister it's how you understand my heart as though you carry it in your body"
"a lot of times we are angry at other people for not doing what we should have done for ourselves - responsibility"
"It isn't blood that makes you my sister it's how you understand my heart as though you carry it in your body"
lonelyday's review against another edition
4.0
Me siento tentada de darle cinco estrellitas a The Sun and Her Flowers. Definitivamente, y aunque haya tardado meses en leerlo –de hecho, puede que esa haya sido una de las claves, porque Milk and Honey lo devoré en tan solo un par de días–, en esta ocasión las palabras de Rupi Kaur me han llegado aún más hondo.