Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Home Body by Rupi Kaur

73 reviews

megan_danyelle's review against another edition

dark hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Rape

lithiumlion's review

challenging dark hopeful fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual violence, and Child abuse

Moderate: Pedophilia and Genocide

sandramarinis's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

The poetry was good, as excepted from Rupi Kaur. I didn't expect to be slapped in the face with so much sadness though. I appreciate the author's raw and personal poems about traumatic experiences, but I just wasn't prepared for something that sad, after reading her two other books. Still a nice read. Some poems were absolutely excellent and others were just okay. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, and Mental illness

karina_dreamsinwords's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault and Child abuse

serendipitysbooks's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

 Home Body is divided into four sections and explores themes like- depression and anxiety, romantic relationships, the problem with productivity, racism, sexism, misogyny, inclusive feminism, self-love and female friendships. I find Kaur’s poetry to be very accessible and this volume was no exception. Many of the poems were extremely short and some felt like fragments or motivational messages. I was able to listen to this on audio while reading the ebook, which is a great way to experience poetry. Seeing the words and hearing them simultaneously seems to increase their power. In this case the different formats had different strengths. The e book let me enjoy the formatting and Kaur’s quick sketches, while the audio, narrated by Kaur, included some bonus poems as well as a foreword by the poet which provided valuable context but which wasn’t included in the ebook. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, and Rape

absolutely_court's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

veronicakg's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, and Child abuse

the_vegan_bookworm's review

emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

5.0

I avoided reading this book for a long time, because I thought it was overhyped. But after reading this poetry, it might be one of my favourite poetry collections. Not all of the poems are great, in my opinion, and some of the pages aren't really poems so much as statements. This being said, Rupi wrote so many things that struck a chord really strongly with me and there were large parts of this book that I couldn't help but meditate on and feel moved by. And isn't that emotional connection the sign of great poetry? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Racism, and Sexism

hmatt's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful

1.0

Oh boy, this was not good. My curiosity got the better of me, though, and the audiobook is an hour long. 

Most of these "poems" were cringeworthy, to me. Very few read as poems, at least via audio - they feel more like bits of memoir and I think I would have been more interested if some of them had been fleshed out as essays instead of needlessly stylized (e.g. the one about her dad as a truck driver). Many of the more political/social-justicey ones just read like out-of-context buzzwordy instagram captions strung together, and I really was not compelled to believe their genuineness.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Islamophobia, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Xenophobia, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Mental illness

emoryscott's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Lesbophobia, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Classism, Deportation, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Abortion, Sexual content, Cursing, Racism, Eating disorder, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Pregnancy, Fatphobia, Rape, Physical abuse, Hate crime, Grief, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Biphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Ableism, Mental illness, and Homophobia