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dipali17's review against another edition
3.0
** A copy of Everything Reminds You of Something Else was provided by the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review **
Everything Reminds You of Something Else by Elana Wolff is a deeply evocative collection of poetry. The bulk of the pieces are meaningful and vivid. While there were some pieces that I didn't fully understand (I've only recently started reading poetry for 'leisure'), this is definitely a strong collection that made me contemplate a lot of things. The humanities and social sciences nerd in me especially loved the Kafka references! My favourite pieces were Rain, Air, Meridian, Elemental and Walking Song. My absolute favourite was Metamorphoses, and is something I will carry with me for a long time:
"Some are born human, most have to humanize slowly.
I want to say I'm on my way"
Everything Reminds You of Something Else by Elana Wolff is a deeply evocative collection of poetry. The bulk of the pieces are meaningful and vivid. While there were some pieces that I didn't fully understand (I've only recently started reading poetry for 'leisure'), this is definitely a strong collection that made me contemplate a lot of things. The humanities and social sciences nerd in me especially loved the Kafka references! My favourite pieces were Rain, Air, Meridian, Elemental and Walking Song. My absolute favourite was Metamorphoses, and is something I will carry with me for a long time:
"Some are born human, most have to humanize slowly.
I want to say I'm on my way"
gargi's review against another edition
4.0
3.5 stars
While this is most definitely a beautiful piece of writing, I couldn't connect with every poem.
I really liked Thin Girl, Cord, Choir, and Walking Song. The title of the collection is fitting. Most of the poems were about mental health and love, together and separately. However, I felt Wolff was doing a bit of jumping from one thing to another in the middle of a sentence.
Like this:
"The stars that stayed remind me of this image of my inner breasts - watery digital constellations marked with ink-black holes the doctor called cysts."
Still, there is this sadness in all these poems that I couldn't comprehend. It just felt a bit superficial at times.
I received a free copy from NetGalley in exchange for this review!
While this is most definitely a beautiful piece of writing, I couldn't connect with every poem.
I really liked Thin Girl, Cord, Choir, and Walking Song. The title of the collection is fitting. Most of the poems were about mental health and love, together and separately. However, I felt Wolff was doing a bit of jumping from one thing to another in the middle of a sentence.
Like this:
"The stars that stayed remind me of this image of my inner breasts - watery digital constellations marked with ink-black holes the doctor called cysts."
Still, there is this sadness in all these poems that I couldn't comprehend. It just felt a bit superficial at times.
I received a free copy from NetGalley in exchange for this review!
wanderlustlover's review against another edition
2.0
Thank you to Netgalley, Guernica Editions, and Elana Wolff for the chance to read and review this ARC;
While most of the poetry books I get from Netgalley bowl me over, every once in a while I'm bound to find one that isn't my specific cup of tea and Everything Reminds You of Something Else is definitely that. While the formatting for it being delivered to the iPad was a bit of a nightmare, squishing everything one after another without any spaces (at least I hope it was? I assumed it was, and if it isn't that would become another complaint to add to this list).
For me personally, I found the work disjointed and I found it hard to find a message in most of the small pieces or any kind of overarching connector for why they were all being published together. I wish the author well with finding the audience this is meant for, as one can tell she put a lot of work into it, even if it was not for me.
While most of the poetry books I get from Netgalley bowl me over, every once in a while I'm bound to find one that isn't my specific cup of tea and Everything Reminds You of Something Else is definitely that. While the formatting for it being delivered to the iPad was a bit of a nightmare, squishing everything one after another without any spaces (at least I hope it was? I assumed it was, and if it isn't that would become another complaint to add to this list).
For me personally, I found the work disjointed and I found it hard to find a message in most of the small pieces or any kind of overarching connector for why they were all being published together. I wish the author well with finding the audience this is meant for, as one can tell she put a lot of work into it, even if it was not for me.
allthatissim's review against another edition
2.0
I had kind of expectations from this poetry collection, but yes it failed miserably. I have never read much complex poetry, so this collection was more a sort of "not for me". From the first poem itself I was not able to understand anything. The poet used so many complex words that it made it more difficult to understand. Apart from 2-3 poems I was not able to connect to anything and they just went over my head because of the hard language.
This book is certainly not for the people like me who enjoys reading poetry of [a:Rupi Kaur|8075577|Rupi Kaur|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1444103068p2/8075577.jpg] or [a:Alicia Cook|7969405|Alicia Cook|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1515434147p2/7969405.jpg]. But yes if you can easily relate to a difficult kind of poetry, then you can certainly try this. As I said they didn't really work for me but they might be for you.
This book is certainly not for the people like me who enjoys reading poetry of [a:Rupi Kaur|8075577|Rupi Kaur|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1444103068p2/8075577.jpg] or [a:Alicia Cook|7969405|Alicia Cook|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1515434147p2/7969405.jpg]. But yes if you can easily relate to a difficult kind of poetry, then you can certainly try this. As I said they didn't really work for me but they might be for you.
rogenecarter's review against another edition
3.0
There were a few standout poems like "Thin Girl" but most of the time I was wondering how such beautiful writing could feel so empty.
rainbowbookworm's review against another edition
3.0
This may not make sense: While I did not love most of the poems in this collection, I enjoyed reading the collection as a whole.
hoffnungswolke's review against another edition
3.0
Everything Reminds You of Something Else First things first: I received this book through NetGalley.
The book comes out April, 1st.
Would you look at that, I'm actually reviewing an ARC before the book comes out. Haven't had that in a while. I'm trying to fix that.
This book is full of beautiful poetry, which I really want to get into this year. So this is my second book, and I still have so much to learn about it, so I'm in no way an expert to poetry.
But I really liked the writing, all these poems were so beautiful written and reading them, I just had the greatest time and really enjoyed every single page.
I just didn't really connect with any of the poems. There wasn't one that really stuck with me, that I want to reread over and over again. That's making me a bit sad.
But still, I highly recommend this book, cause even though I didn't connect with the words, I'm sure lots of other people will. And have I mentioned how beautiful written these poems are?!
The book comes out April, 1st.
Would you look at that, I'm actually reviewing an ARC before the book comes out. Haven't had that in a while. I'm trying to fix that.
This book is full of beautiful poetry, which I really want to get into this year. So this is my second book, and I still have so much to learn about it, so I'm in no way an expert to poetry.
But I really liked the writing, all these poems were so beautiful written and reading them, I just had the greatest time and really enjoyed every single page.
I just didn't really connect with any of the poems. There wasn't one that really stuck with me, that I want to reread over and over again. That's making me a bit sad.
But still, I highly recommend this book, cause even though I didn't connect with the words, I'm sure lots of other people will. And have I mentioned how beautiful written these poems are?!
singerwriter94's review against another edition
2.0
Originally posted on: The Quirky Book Nerd
*I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review*
Poetry is incredibly hard to critique because each individual reader’s experience is unique. Everyone gets something different out of it, and a style that might work for one reader might not work for another. This is one of those collections that I believe really backs these things up. Wolff’s writing is very beautiful and I’m sure, for that reason, there are many people who would enjoy her work. Her unique view of the world shines through in the way she interprets and records small snapshots of life. Her imaginative and whimsical style is juxtaposed against her use of more serious topics and issues. However, for me, this particular collection fell a bit flat and did not affect me in the way I think it was meant to.
To be completely honest, I did not understand many of the poems in this particular collection. What would normally be an extremely quick read took me much longer than anticipated, since I was attempting to decipher some sort of meaning in each obscure poem. There were only a handful that I understood, and the rest felt very choppy and disjointed. I spent most of my reading experience feeling very confused and searching for so much more than I was able to find. I love diving into and interpreting complex poetry, but this style of writing did not click with me, making it just a bit too difficult to understand. Though Wolff’s writing is clearly skilled and her style may work for some readers, I was unfortunately not one.
*I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review*
Poetry is incredibly hard to critique because each individual reader’s experience is unique. Everyone gets something different out of it, and a style that might work for one reader might not work for another. This is one of those collections that I believe really backs these things up. Wolff’s writing is very beautiful and I’m sure, for that reason, there are many people who would enjoy her work. Her unique view of the world shines through in the way she interprets and records small snapshots of life. Her imaginative and whimsical style is juxtaposed against her use of more serious topics and issues. However, for me, this particular collection fell a bit flat and did not affect me in the way I think it was meant to.
To be completely honest, I did not understand many of the poems in this particular collection. What would normally be an extremely quick read took me much longer than anticipated, since I was attempting to decipher some sort of meaning in each obscure poem. There were only a handful that I understood, and the rest felt very choppy and disjointed. I spent most of my reading experience feeling very confused and searching for so much more than I was able to find. I love diving into and interpreting complex poetry, but this style of writing did not click with me, making it just a bit too difficult to understand. Though Wolff’s writing is clearly skilled and her style may work for some readers, I was unfortunately not one.