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sarracenia 's review for:
Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood
by Hollie McNish
I've often enjoyed listening to McNish's poetry on Facebook. Her observations of life as a mum are spot-on. And so when I spotted this in my local bookshop I thought, yes, this is for me.
I enjoyed the poems in this long book but the prose was like reading someone's unedited diaries. While it's certainly true that I relate to many of her experiences of pregnancy and being a mother of a baby and then a toddler, her experiences are relatable precisely because this is exactly the kind of thing that mums experience. While this relatability makes her poems good, it makes her prose boring. It just isn't interesting to read when it's not in poetry form.
This would have been a 4 star book if an editor had sat down and deleted most of the prose. As it is, I'm giving 2.5 stars.
I enjoyed the poems in this long book but the prose was like reading someone's unedited diaries. While it's certainly true that I relate to many of her experiences of pregnancy and being a mother of a baby and then a toddler, her experiences are relatable precisely because this is exactly the kind of thing that mums experience. While this relatability makes her poems good, it makes her prose boring. It just isn't interesting to read when it's not in poetry form.
This would have been a 4 star book if an editor had sat down and deleted most of the prose. As it is, I'm giving 2.5 stars.