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abinthebooks 's review for:
Milk and Honey
by Rupi Kaur
RANT REVIEW AHEAD
Yeah so umm, that was a thing. What I want to understand is how is this a best selling book? Like actually? I feel bad giving this book 1 Star, but I don’t also? Even though I detest poetry, one of my friends read this and said, ”Abi you’re going to love this so much.” Obviously I need to evaluate my friends.
This was terrible. This entire collection of poetry wasn’t even poetry? It was just the author writing down thoughts and feelings in a weird order about things that happened in their life (without capitalization, because that’s an aesthetic now for some reason). And I mean, I feel heartless say this was bad because the authors talks about some pretty heavy topics like sexual assault/rape, alcoholic addiction, abusive parent, abusive relationships, and depression, but just because a book/poetry collection talks about heavy topics, doesn’t necessarily mean its good. I think that as a society we are pressured to believe something is good, or should be read/watched if a media has heavy topics in it. And I just don’t understand that. Anyways, I’m not going to go to deep in that, because that’s a topic for another time, but I just wanted to touch on that briefly.
Moving on, the writing wasn’t even...good? I have so many passages I tabbed that I’m going to quote for you that made me rethink my life choices. I’m happy for this author, they probably have gotten thousands from this and their other poetry collection for writing down thoughts. If I knew that was the only qualification to become an author, you best know that I would have already had 9 poetry collections published of just me saying ”This makes no sense or When am I going to use this?! or my personal favorite What the fuck? in my math notes. I could have got hundreds for that.
negative two multiplied by the base height of triangle b
= 189
what is the base height of triangle a?
- What the fuck???
Yeah that’s basically the poetry in here. Here are someawful examples in my opinion!
”the very thought of you
has my legs spread
like and easel with a canvas
just begging for art”
Just in my feelings from how fucking deep that was
Yeah so umm, that was a thing. What I want to understand is how is this a best selling book? Like actually? I feel bad giving this book 1 Star, but I don’t also? Even though I detest poetry, one of my friends read this and said, ”Abi you’re going to love this so much.” Obviously I need to evaluate my friends.
This was terrible. This entire collection of poetry wasn’t even poetry? It was just the author writing down thoughts and feelings in a weird order about things that happened in their life (without capitalization, because that’s an aesthetic now for some reason). And I mean, I feel heartless say this was bad because the authors talks about some pretty heavy topics like sexual assault/rape, alcoholic addiction, abusive parent, abusive relationships, and depression, but just because a book/poetry collection talks about heavy topics, doesn’t necessarily mean its good. I think that as a society we are pressured to believe something is good, or should be read/watched if a media has heavy topics in it. And I just don’t understand that. Anyways, I’m not going to go to deep in that, because that’s a topic for another time, but I just wanted to touch on that briefly.
Moving on, the writing wasn’t even...good? I have so many passages I tabbed that I’m going to quote for you that made me rethink my life choices. I’m happy for this author, they probably have gotten thousands from this and their other poetry collection for writing down thoughts. If I knew that was the only qualification to become an author, you best know that I would have already had 9 poetry collections published of just me saying ”This makes no sense or When am I going to use this?! or my personal favorite What the fuck? in my math notes. I could have got hundreds for that.
negative two multiplied by the base height of triangle b
= 189
what is the base height of triangle a?
- What the fuck???
Yeah that’s basically the poetry in here. Here are some
”the very thought of you
has my legs spread
like and easel with a canvas
just begging for art”
Just in my feelings from how fucking deep that was