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Home Body by Rupi Kaur

8 reviews

emersonrosegiella16's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

5.0

I love this book. Any time I found myself relating to a poem or a part of it I highlighted it. Even though I can’t relate to everything written, I felt seen reading the things I’ve been thinking to myself translated so beautifully on paper. I’ll definitely be going back to this in the future with a new highlighter and see where I am then.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Adult/minor relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Deportation, Grief, Cursing, Rape, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, and Misogyny

theinkedpath's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

ES:

Me encanta Rupi Kaur, es mi poetisa favorita. Por eso, cuando me enteré de que tenía una nueva edición de su último libro "Home body" no lo dudé y me lancé.
Creo que la autora lidia con temas complejos como los abusos y la violencia sobre la mujer, la inmigración y el cariño a una misma. En este caso, a esta lista de temas se une la salud mental y la depresión (que la autora pasó previamente a escribir el libro). De hecho, hay unos pocos de los poemas que hablan de cómo la vorágine editorial la afectó a ella y a su trabajo creativo.

A pesar del trabajo creativo de la autora, y de la cantidad de poemas que marqué, sin embargo se me ha quedado corto. Creo que este poemario tenía mucho potencial y su complejidad daba pie a poemas más largos y abstractos...y sin embargo, propulaban textos más cortos que, al menos a mí, no me han llegado tanto.
¿Me ha gustado? Sí. ¿Esperaba más? También. Rupi es capaz de entenderme, pero en este caso mi libro era más largo y complejo que el espejo que ella me ha dado para reflejarme. ¿La leeré más? Siempre.

EN:

This is a strange book to review because Rupi Kaur is my favorite poet and I was very, very excited for this book.
In "Home body" Kaur explores some of her usual topics such as violences against women, inmigración and self-love, but she explores mental health a bit more, especially how it has affect her personally in her creative process, which includes also the very fast publishing industry.
I love how she creates poetry around this topics and I have marked quite a few poems. However, despite all of this I had the feeling that this poetry collection was missing something. It felt short. The complexity of its topics called in my opinion for longer, more complex poems, and yet, this time around Kaur those to write extremely short works (in some cases one or two lines poems). Which, in my opinion is a pity. 
I do Belice she touched my heart more with "The sun and her flowers", but I enjoyed this collection, but I think that this happened because normally Kaur´s words reflects how I feel... and maybe this time my internal world was too chaotic. I was definitely looking for more abstract, methaforical pieces...but some of this works also resonated with me. 

I do believe I was expecting more of the collection than what it delivered. However, I liked this collection and I will continue reading what Rupi writes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, Racism, Pedophilia, Genocide, Torture, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Rape, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, and Sexism

clralmeidag's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Racism, Sexual harassment, Mental illness, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders

emoryscott's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Lesbophobia, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Classism, Deportation, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Abortion, Sexual content, Cursing, Racism, Eating disorder, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Pregnancy, Fatphobia, Rape, Physical abuse, Hate crime, Grief, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Biphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Ableism, Mental illness, and Homophobia

abbyj_04's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing fast-paced

4.5

a lot of people dislike her work but be real: she creater a while genre of poetry. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Classism, Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Colonisation, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, and Racism

annoyedhumanoid's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad

4.0

i went through a lot of sticky notes with this (in fact, i decided it was worth sacrificing another book [to a library] as i got my copy from an exchange library and wanted to mark it up). the first section—mind—hit especially hard. some things i needed to hear. not all of them were hits, of course, but i'd say more often than not they were.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Transphobia

Moderate: Abandonment, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual content

Minor: Classism, Death of parent, Self harm, Blood, Body shaming, Genocide, and Toxic friendship

naomi_k's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Rape, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, and Infidelity

brooke_e_martin's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts