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raffy23's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
2.0
Disappointing.
Despite controversy over the simplicity of her poems & writing style, I loved Kaur's first book and enjoyed the second.
But this was just dumb.
Writing JUST a 1-sentence long fact or opinion on a whole entire page is quite literally NOT a poem. Objectively. It's wasting paper when you could've just posted that pitiful one sentence on Twitter.
Examples:
-"nothing tastes better than being on your own side"
-"you do not belong to the future or the past - you belong right here"
-"make it a point to love yourself as fiercely as you do other people"
This was the majority of this book of 'poems'. I'm very confused. I can count on my fingers how many actual poetry attempts there were.
Either Rupi Kaur has run out of ideas & phoned it in for cash or her publisher rushed tf out of her.
Ironically, she writes on one of her pages a piece of advice (because I guess that's what poems are now??) that I couldn't believe she wasn't self-aware enough of to take herself, and that's the quoted advice I'll end this review with:
"It seems like the more words you write the more you think it is you writing them why do you think you’re in control didn’t the words come spilling out of you the first time pouring without permission and now you’re trying to make them work for you but magic doesn’t move like that your rushing is suffocating the masterpieces baking inside you your job is to show up for the process be patient and when it’s time the universe will use you again - inspiration"
Despite controversy over the simplicity of her poems & writing style, I loved Kaur's first book and enjoyed the second.
But this was just dumb.
Writing JUST a 1-sentence long fact or opinion on a whole entire page is quite literally NOT a poem. Objectively. It's wasting paper when you could've just posted that pitiful one sentence on Twitter.
Examples:
-"nothing tastes better than being on your own side"
-"you do not belong to the future or the past - you belong right here"
-"make it a point to love yourself as fiercely as you do other people"
This was the majority of this book of 'poems'. I'm very confused. I can count on my fingers how many actual poetry attempts there were.
Either Rupi Kaur has run out of ideas & phoned it in for cash or her publisher rushed tf out of her.
Ironically, she writes on one of her pages a piece of advice (because I guess that's what poems are now??) that I couldn't believe she wasn't self-aware enough of to take herself, and that's the quoted advice I'll end this review with:
"It seems like the more words you write the more you think it is you writing them why do you think you’re in control didn’t the words come spilling out of you the first time pouring without permission and now you’re trying to make them work for you but magic doesn’t move like that your rushing is suffocating the masterpieces baking inside you your job is to show up for the process be patient and when it’s time the universe will use you again - inspiration"
agnello2003_gmail_com's review against another edition
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
4.0
gabsreadsbooks's review against another edition
5.0
4.5 ⭐
"you have only scratched the surface
of what you're capable of
there are decades
of victories ahead of you"
Even though I don't think this is Rupi's best book (The Sun and Her Flowers), I gave it 4.5 stars because it felt personal, and I could relate to it on so many levels. This book really spoke to my heart and my struggles, plus the art is lovely as always.
"you have only scratched the surface
of what you're capable of
there are decades
of victories ahead of you"
Even though I don't think this is Rupi's best book (The Sun and Her Flowers), I gave it 4.5 stars because it felt personal, and I could relate to it on so many levels. This book really spoke to my heart and my struggles, plus the art is lovely as always.