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4.0 AVERAGE
4.0 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
Womanhood on a page.
emotional
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
emotional
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
When it ended I wanted more and I don't often feel that way after poetry
10, 20, 30 stars.
Reading Kate's poetry makes me feel SEEN and UNDERSTOOD and KNOWN. I laugh through tears and hold my breath when my heart feels too full. I am reminded of just how much I adore and love my husband, how much more complicated and fulfilling a long love is over a new love. I feel freedom to love my kids recklessly while also being able to acknowledge the cost of motherhood.
She writes as a woman - with all the layers, complexities, joys, sorrows that being a woman brings.
And she does so UNAPOLOGETICALLY.
Read this book. Man. Woman. Doesn't matter. Read this book.
Reading Kate's poetry makes me feel SEEN and UNDERSTOOD and KNOWN. I laugh through tears and hold my breath when my heart feels too full. I am reminded of just how much I adore and love my husband, how much more complicated and fulfilling a long love is over a new love. I feel freedom to love my kids recklessly while also being able to acknowledge the cost of motherhood.
She writes as a woman - with all the layers, complexities, joys, sorrows that being a woman brings.
And she does so UNAPOLOGETICALLY.
Read this book. Man. Woman. Doesn't matter. Read this book.
sometimes felt very 2016 feminism-y (derogatory), sometimes felt radical, consistently felt honest and intimate
When a poem hits, it hits.
I have been lusting after this book for months and the first couple of pages didn't connect with me but soon the words were hitting me. Knocking the wind out of me. This book is not about a date, a marriage, motherhood. It is about all of those. It is about all of those feelings, all of those experiences, how women are perceived, expectations of women.
I have been lusting after this book for months and the first couple of pages didn't connect with me but soon the words were hitting me. Knocking the wind out of me. This book is not about a date, a marriage, motherhood. It is about all of those. It is about all of those feelings, all of those experiences, how women are perceived, expectations of women.
I read this poetry book in about an hour. With poems about adult life, marriage, and kids, I found many of the poems very moving and meaningful. Some of my favorite poems in the book were: “My Friend Bethany Rages at the News,” “Like a Wife,” “Crescendo,” “Observations Through the Glass at the Human Zoo,” “For the Advice Cards at Baby Showers,” “Back To School Shopping,” “The Martian,” and “What Mothers Say.”