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careydnelson's review against another edition
1.0
The joke is: married people don't love each other because they're married. Get it?
I know, I know, this is satire. It just doesn't seem to have a healthy reason to be read.
Last poem (the serious one) is pretty great though.
I know, I know, this is satire. It just doesn't seem to have a healthy reason to be read.
Last poem (the serious one) is pretty great though.
crobey's review against another edition
1.0
Maybe I haven't been married long enough to hate my spouse, but I just didn't get the humor in these poems. Also sounds like having kids is miserable. Maybe I just didn't get it and maybe I don't really want to.
laurazdavidson's review against another edition
4.0
Dark and lovely humor. John Kenney's poems made me smile and snicker and laugh... and sometimes tear up a little.
tt0rres's review against another edition
3.0
2019 POP sugar challenge - book with the "love" in the title
vanhooked_on_reading's review
3.0
So many of these poems were very cute, & there were several that I had to read out loud to my husband. I found myself smiling throughout, & I breezed through this book. There are some that I'm sure I will revisit in the future.
Several of these poems depict couples who don't seem to care for each other at all. In the middle, there seemed to be a particular slump of unhappy poetry that really took some of the enjoyment away for me. I would have preferred some more positive poems sprinkled throughout to break it up.
Overall, if you are looking to laugh I would tell you to pick this book up, enjoy the good parts of it, & ignore the ones you don't prefer. That's absolutely what I did, & it's easy enough to do in the way it's set out. I will revisit this one in the future.
Several of these poems depict couples who don't seem to care for each other at all. In the middle, there seemed to be a particular slump of unhappy poetry that really took some of the enjoyment away for me. I would have preferred some more positive poems sprinkled throughout to break it up.
Overall, if you are looking to laugh I would tell you to pick this book up, enjoy the good parts of it, & ignore the ones you don't prefer. That's absolutely what I did, & it's easy enough to do in the way it's set out. I will revisit this one in the future.
trampampoline's review against another edition
4.0
Silly, observant, short, satirical. Fun and dumb but also cracks onto a lot of truths where you go... shit, that’s me isn’t it?
nssutton's review against another edition
3.0
Quick, clever read. Could write a sonnet about reading them aloud to my husband while he is trying to watch YouTube videos because the girls are finally asleep but, well, I’m no poet.
beths0103's review against another edition
4.0
A book that both pokes fun while finding a kernel of truth in the mundane, every day grind of marriage.