Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

40 reviews

sophshelves's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse

kenzielireads's review against another edition

fast-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism, Sexual content, Child abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

sometimes_samantha_reads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

I've had this book on my shelf for years. I haven't picked it up because poetry isn't always for my current mood and because there has been so much parody and satire around Kaur's poetry that I was kind of turned away from it. Well, having read it, I'm kicking myself for waiting! So many poems resonated with me. Made heart race and think "hm, maybe I'm not as over that as I thought". It was a reflective experience. I felt both seen and heard, and by the end I felt confident. I don't often mark the pages of my books but I added tabs to all the poems I thought I would like to revisit in the future. 

I really enjoyed Milk and Honey.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Rape, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Abandonment and Alcoholism

Minor: Misogyny

bbellabeee's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

Beautiful and crisp. Sexual violence summed in a real and raw way, the healing process covered gracefully

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

slowly_dying_inside's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Sexism and Misogyny

emmawinchester's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

Milk and Honey is So. Fucking. Good. 
It's painful- maybe the most vulnerable book I've ever read. But I think that vulnerability and honesty is what causes it to connect with the millions of women who have read this. There are so many things we don't talk about, and when someone does, it makes the human experience so much more manageable. The style is fantastic, and while one could call it simple, I think it's vastly complex. Sure, there aren't a lot of words, but each word has meaning and purpose. There is no fluff or flowery language, like I see in a lot of "tumbler poetry." Milk and Honey is harsh, vulnerable, and accessible. It's not overhyped at all, and I think everyone should have a copy of it, because believe me, you'll want to come back to it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual violence

lanimatilda's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

madisynne_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Grief, and Rape

Search up TW just like most poetry books

sofiarodriguez's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Dysphoria, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Dysphoria, and Eating disorder

kristenm's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Listened to the audiobook on a walk today as it's just over an hour in length. At times this really resonated with me and other times I found her metaphors to be very odd ... "I am not street meat, I am homemade jam" ??? not really sure what this means since I love STREET MEAT... I was also surprised at how sexually explicit it was. Which I didn't mind, but I'd never known her poetry to be so... graphic. Guess Twitter doesn't share the poems about female oral sex or mutual masturbation since it doesn't really fit the sad girl aesthetic. 

For me the biggest obstacle was the flow. While, I understood it was broken into the hurting/loving/breaking/healing.... I didn't notice a huge shift each 'chapter.' In fact, if I wasn't aware of it being broken down like that before listening/reading I'd have never realized there was any division of the content at all.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism and Sexual content