Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Home Body by Rupi Kaur

80 reviews

brookey8888's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

I really enjoyed like all of these poems. I mean some of them I feel weren’t a poem but I’m not a poet so. Some of them I couldn’t relate to so they weren’t that impactful, but the ones I could I really enjoyed/felt.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Islamophobia

readalongwithnat's review

hopeful reflective fast-paced

3.75

Perhaps Rupi's strongest collection yet.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Rape, and Sexual content

Minor: Genocide

livciotta's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

kassidygoddard's review

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense

4.0

While just as good of a read as Kaur's previous and more well-known collections, home body is much more graphic and intense, more heavily handling the author's darker and more uncomfortable experiences and trauma. The collection maintains the author's beautiful and unique illustrations and poetry style. It is not without hopefulness, insight, and inspiration, but certainly a dark and mildy uncomfortable read for those more sensitive to certain topics.
Due to the short length and quick topic-changes of her individual poems, this collections is a quick read if you enjoy rushing through content, but perhaps best enjoyed slowly with contemplation and in small doses.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Misogyny and Sexual content

bethsbookshelf's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Islamophobia, Grief, and Religious bigotry

tabitha_isabelle's review

emotional

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Grief

haneliz's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Sexual assault

baka's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

I didn't like most of her old books but this one shows how much she's grown, how she's become more confident and daring. I personally enjoyed the first part of the book which went into kind of gruesome detail about her abuse and depression.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Xenophobia

Minor: Emotional abuse and Transphobia

herk's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Racism, Sexual content, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

robiok's review

dark hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

Mind: this section felt an overly semplification, maybe better a distillation, of Kaur’s usual style...and seeing the subject matter the stylistic choice makes sense. The matter is brutal and dark and its darkness and rawness are better reflected in a style that simply does not have the time or the energy to be beautiful. It’s about substance and about recognizing that there are things that cannot and should not be made beautiful. They are horrors and as such we should know them and talk of them. 

Heart: as usual the part of the collection that focuses on romantic and erotic love is where i struggle to connect with Kaur. No fault of the author or flaw of the work per se, im just completely disinterested in and disconnecred from the topic.

Rest: I enjoyed this section very much, especially in the reflection on the ‘hustle’ of life, the obsession with productivity and capitalism/environmentalism. The best pieces though for me will always be the ones about her identity as immigrant ans daughter of immigrant. The piece on Kaur’s father ‘a life on the road’ was stunning and emotional.

Awake: the more political part of the collection alternates empowerment hymns and straight out statement such as ‘im not interested in a feminism that exclude trans women’. It’s a collection of pieces that form a statement on the political ans ideological affiliation of Rupi Kaur, which i think overlaps intersectional feminism to a T. I appreciated it even when it’s not the strongest moment of the collection, lyricslly speaking. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship