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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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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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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

2.0

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challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

Love Rupi! This was a quite challenging read, with lots of triggers - but I really enjoyed it, and could relate to some of the poems.

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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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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.75

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I don’t think it is up to the reader to rate poet’s work, as it’s a reflection of their soul and their experiences.
But I felt empowered with the last section of this book and the first part really moved me.
Her work is always a nice comfort read

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