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tracy_j's review against another edition
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
All about her
alatinaandherbooks's review against another edition
4.0
This book is the first book of his I read still one of my favorites
mayankamal18's review against another edition
2.0
Meh at best, felt uninspired and tumblrish.
The poems did not stand out to me much aside from reminding me of a certain someone.
They'd probably enjoy this book -most likely in a jar with the verses written into folded papers where they'd have to pick one everyday to read its content- they'd thoroughly enjoy that.
The poems did not stand out to me much aside from reminding me of a certain someone.
They'd probably enjoy this book -most likely in a jar with the verses written into folded papers where they'd have to pick one everyday to read its content- they'd thoroughly enjoy that.
sadkitty's review against another edition
2.0
I was mainly for the thoughts. I don't understand the difference between poetically written lines and free verse poems. But I do know one thing. The poems in this book were simple sentences broken at several points to create a rhythmic feeling.
But there were not many poetic elements. Even when talking about something harsh, something that a good poem can convey directly to the heart (where you feel like, this is deep but I don't understand), this book fails. This is the first book where the lines sounded so bland I had to read them aloud for the sake of understanding.
Most of the poems in the beginning are fine. Not good, not bad. But I've rated the book so low because of some really strange (which I may be using as a softer word for bad poems) poems near the ending of the book.
"Perhaps if you wait for a husband and stop treating boyfriends as kings, you will no longer kiss the wrong frogs."
Like, how the hell does the writer think the girl is going to find the 'husband' without testing which guy she is compatible with? The perfect husband for her wouldn't fall from the heaven just like that. Love is a lot of work. Not just finding someone who loves you back. There are a lot of other factors too. Whether they consider you important to them, whether they respect you, value you, whether they are compatible with you. Whether they are welcoming of changes that might make your relationship better.
Husbands don't just fall from the trees. This kind of poem doesn't make sense because just because some man is ready to marry a woman does not means he loves her. Maybe he's marrying tp keep his public image or any of that superficial crap. Maybe he's abusive. Just because he is ready for marriage does not mean he is on a completely different level from the man who loves you but cannot make false promises of commitment (for reasons the couple may know, but we don't).
"I will never thank you for hurting her, but I will acknowledge you for making her strong. Because of your bad choices towards her I will have a strong woman."
I hate this one. You cannot just thank someone's toxic/incompatible/non-serious ex- for making them strong. If she got hurt because of them, does not mean they either hurt her because they wanted to. It does not mean she got hurt because it will make her strong. Shit happens. Maybe they had strong feelings for each other but had chosen different ways. Maybe that's why she got hurt. Without context, this kind of poem seems to romanticise non-functional/dysfunctional relationships. People don't make us strong by hurting us.
People make us stronger by standing by us when we are unsure.
But there were not many poetic elements. Even when talking about something harsh, something that a good poem can convey directly to the heart (where you feel like, this is deep but I don't understand), this book fails. This is the first book where the lines sounded so bland I had to read them aloud for the sake of understanding.
Most of the poems in the beginning are fine. Not good, not bad. But I've rated the book so low because of some really strange (which I may be using as a softer word for bad poems) poems near the ending of the book.
"Perhaps if you wait for a husband and stop treating boyfriends as kings, you will no longer kiss the wrong frogs."
Like, how the hell does the writer think the girl is going to find the 'husband' without testing which guy she is compatible with? The perfect husband for her wouldn't fall from the heaven just like that. Love is a lot of work. Not just finding someone who loves you back. There are a lot of other factors too. Whether they consider you important to them, whether they respect you, value you, whether they are compatible with you. Whether they are welcoming of changes that might make your relationship better.
Husbands don't just fall from the trees. This kind of poem doesn't make sense because just because some man is ready to marry a woman does not means he loves her. Maybe he's marrying tp keep his public image or any of that superficial crap. Maybe he's abusive. Just because he is ready for marriage does not mean he is on a completely different level from the man who loves you but cannot make false promises of commitment (for reasons the couple may know, but we don't).
"I will never thank you for hurting her, but I will acknowledge you for making her strong. Because of your bad choices towards her I will have a strong woman."
I hate this one. You cannot just thank someone's toxic/incompatible/non-serious ex- for making them strong. If she got hurt because of them, does not mean they either hurt her because they wanted to. It does not mean she got hurt because it will make her strong. Shit happens. Maybe they had strong feelings for each other but had chosen different ways. Maybe that's why she got hurt. Without context, this kind of poem seems to romanticise non-functional/dysfunctional relationships. People don't make us strong by hurting us.
People make us stronger by standing by us when we are unsure.
astheplotthickens24's review against another edition
4.0
One of the poems in this book reached almost a million likes on facebook, worth a shot.
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This guy is better than Lang Leav ❤
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This guy is better than Lang Leav ❤
menastarr's review against another edition
5.0
all i can say is i screenshotted so many poems from this book. i am so thankful i read her and her vol. 2 BEFORE reading "him", because i hated "him".
rainsailler's review against another edition
1.0
It was a boring read. I picked this up hoping that it can get me out of my reading slump but it did not helped me at all. The pieces were so underwhelming, I feel like I was scanning a draft of a book. Feels like instagram captions if I'm being honest. I kept on looking for depth and emotion but all I saw was the paraphrased version of almost every poem that I already read. The illustrations were good tho, maybe it should just stayed that way? A graphic book maybe?