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You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson

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shereadsshedrinks's review

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challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

4.0

bekah1210's review against another edition

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emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

dale_ale's review

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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I haven’t read a book of poetry cover to cover before and this was amazing. Andrea’s writing touches your soul and makes you feel the most alive you’ve ever felt

mticereads's review

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challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

5.0

A few of these poems were amazing (the one about the tandem bike speaking after the breakup) or, at least, one of them was, ha. A few were pretty good, or interesting (I liked Time Piece... mostly - there were three lines that made me want to pull my hair out and wonder if this was edited - and I liked the Museum of Broken Relationships but I realized I only liked the first 1/2 which is just describing ACTUAL things in the REAL museum - that's not something you can accredit to Andrea Gibson, those objects really exist and their poetry is innate; just describing them is not really much in the way of adding to that).

Then there were a bunch of "poems" that were more like... Buzzfeed headlines? Twitter hot takes? Ready-to-be-sold-on-T-Shirt bon mots?

THOSE frustrated the hell out of me.

I would have maybe given this book 3 stars, but honestly, I just think most things on Goodreads get inflated reviews, and if I'm the curmudgeonly lodestone that weighs things back down to reality, well, I'll do that.

_bailey_reads_'s review

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dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.75

This poetry book was stunning. I loved every single word. Certain poems I find myself going back to again and again because of how deeply I felt them and related to them.

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