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coolfoolmoon's Reviews (357)
Graphic: Misogyny, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Grief, Abandonment
Moderate: Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Colonisation
That being said, with a lot of my own poems they aren't very good they're just something I had to get out of my mind. Raw thoughts, raw emotions and feelings. Sometimes nonsensical. When I go back and read them I go ew that's never seeing the light of anyone else's eyes but mine and even I don't wanna look at it. You're going deep into my google drive folders.
Not that Vianney's poems here are necessarily like that, but they are just raw emotion. It's very real, deeply personal, very much something she had to get out there or else she would go crazy. As she said Friducha was a character she made when she thought she wouldn't survive. The poems are not for me, I don't think they have rereadability, but I feel like I know her, or at least the person I knew in 2016-2019, more now. Whoever she is now and the state and contents of her poetry, I hope she's alright!
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Abortion
Moderate: Confinement, Racism, Rape, Vomit, Abandonment
Minor: Drug abuse, Homophobia, Colonisation
Graphic: Child abuse, Misogyny, Racism, Police brutality, Murder
Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Self harm, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Ableism, Terminal illness
They peeled my scalp back, cracked my skull open, and wrote exactly what's going on in my brain. What the heck Akwaeke Emezi my future spouse. How dare you. I love you. I guess I'm an ogbanje? Is it appropriative of me to say that even though I know my ancestry comes from Nigeria I'm just not sure which people group? Anyway anyway. I am her and they is me and I am we. Amazing. I'm so glad I chose to pock this up this month. THIS IS Black history NOW !!!
Graphic: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Violence, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Colonisation
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Transphobia, Medical content
Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Racism, Rape, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, War, Deportation
Moderate: Child death, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Minor: Body horror, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Abortion
It's not her best work, but it's not her worst either. A breeze to read as usual. It hooked me more towards the end, or more than halfway through the book, which isn't good while reading but the parts before that were pleasant enough I didn't look at the book negatively. I'm sure it wasn't her intention but it is a little sad she didn't go out with a bang. This book is fine. I love Black love, and that was her primary love through all her books in all its different forms. All her books are about love! π«ΆπΎ
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Grief, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Classism
Minor: Bullying, Confinement, Domestic abuse
Negative points also for the main characters, all characters being white. I understand that the story couldn't be told without them being white. It's just hard for me to relate to white stories. I don't understand them. Usually when I read them I think "Okay but you don't have real problems. Why are you complaining?" Which is only halfway a joke. 55% a jape.
I did relate to the main character however. For future me reading this, you just broke up with your first girlfriend. You only related in some, a few ways, not completely, but it was noticeable.
Despite my criticisms the writing was lovely. It feels like thee queer/gay book that mothered or grandmothered queer books. I loved the brief analysis into gender and heteronorms. It came out of nowhere but it really stood out. Every thing you feel for the first time has already been felt by the rest of humanity a billion times over. I also love when classics can still be relatable.
Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Grief, Abandonment
Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Toxic friendship
Minor: Biphobia, Confinement, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Car accident, Death of parent
What a blessing that these poems were still available! She's my favorite poet and it's amazing that someone found more of her work! Wow!!!!!
My one complaint (that didn't affect my rating) is that the book should've been broken up with the text in the introduction giving more context after you read the poem. It was over 50 pages! I guess books aren't traditionally written like that but it'd be cool if they were. I came for the poems but here's someone who found her works and chose to provide context, it's fine if we break the mold a lil.
Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Grief, War
Minor: Racism, Sexual content, Suicide, Xenophobia
Lorraine Hansberry was definitely ahead of her time.
This may have a higher rating if I actually saw it on stage instead of read / listened to it. I read it in pretty much one sitting to stay true to the theater experience β you can't pause a play, you have to sit through it β and it was still very moving and hooked my attention. But reading and listening to the play I'm sure doesn't compare to actually seeing and living it in the theater.
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Death of parent, Classism
Moderate: Confinement, Misogyny, Grief, Abortion, Alcohol
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Homophobia, Blood, Colonisation