Product Review:I purchased this product on April 13, 2023.I decided to buy this product after encountering it frequently on the internet, particularly in English classes and through recommendations from friends who shared my love for poetry—a genre that has captivated me since my younger years. Having owned the hardcover version of this book for over four months now, I am impressed with its enduring condition.The book, with its well-placed pictures, provided a delightful reading experience. I managed to read it over the course of approximately three nights, finding it to be a quick yet immensely worthwhile read. I highly recommend this beautifully written book to others who appreciate poetry.However, I would advise that this book is intended for young adults and not suitable for readers younger than that age group. The content is descriptive, and the images, while adding to the book's appeal, might be interpreted as graphic.Added Photos Description/Review:These photos were taken on December 31, 2023.They serve as a visual testament to the durability and excellent condition in which the book arrived and has been maintained throughout my ownership. Additionally, the images highlight what I find to be the charming and well-crafted design of the book. Overall, these pictures contribute to my positive review of a book that has not only withstood the test of time but also offers an aesthetically pleasing experience.
such a beautiful book. It’s so hard to explain how much this book has helped me through the process of finding myself and learning to accept things as they are… including myself
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rupi kar is one of my favorites!! i recommend this to someone who is just getting into reading or want a light read.
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Love this book.
An amazing book that speaks to the soul of womanhood through an intersectional feminist lense
My first poetry reading , it spoke to my soul . I loved how the book had 3 categories , it fits how my life is going right now
I loved milk and honey and recommend to all the ladies. I hope you reach for this book anytime you need someone to listen.
It’s such a simple book, but I could feel the emotions on every page I turned too. I loved how simplistic it was but so passionate. I liked that it was short form even though my poetry is always so long when I write them. I loved this book, I appreciate the love written and given. 9/10 ⭐️
I'm very late to the Rupi Kaur fan club, but I am here to stay!Kaur's poetry is raw and fresh, and it yanked me into its world on the first page. Milk and Honey is broken into four sections of life and love, and the reader travels through heartbreak to loving to living.The first section, hurting, explains how love and pain aren't always separate, and how not knowing how to separate them is what causes skewed perspectives of love beginning in childhood. The unfiltered voice looks at how parents can shape us in the worst ways before we ever see the right ways. The poem that stayed with me is that alcoholic parents don't exist, only parents who couldn't stay sober long enough, and the truth hit me like a brick wall. It's a perspective that needs to be pushed more because it's the only true one.Favorite hurting poems: pages 34 and 39.The second section is called loving, and it shows the first step after hurting, where we find passion and fireworks in our first relationship and think we've found everything we've missed. However, it's usually the calm before the storm. The passionate love tends to involve fighting and fiery make-up sessions, and often, we mistake that for forever love when really it's just a better love than anything else we've been shown, but it's still not a good love.Favorite loving poems: pages 76-77.The third section, breaking, is about realizing you can feel both love for someone and betrayal and it's accepting that both are valid. It's forgiving yourself for having conflicting emotions because those who love us can hurt us. Breaking teaches you what real love is so you know how to recognize it from others and in yourself.Favorite breaking poems: pages 90, 95, 104, 106, and 125.The final section is called healing and it's about balance and boundaries, knowing how much of yourself to give to others only after first giving to yourself. Healing is realizing your worth as a person and taking up space. Healing is knowing you are whole because you exist.Favorite healing poems: pages 154, 159, 165, 178, and 185.The sections flow effortlessly and Kaur's writing is unrelenting and dives into you like a tidal wave. Her writing is unfiltered and a breath of fresh air. I can't wait to read her other collections.
I don’t read poetry very often (actually, apart from Pablo Neruda’s love poems, I never read poetry) but Rupi Kaur’s “Milk and Honey” is pretty amazing! Every page smacks you with wisdom and food for thought and you can either ruminate on a page as a snack or just have a whole meal of truth bombs delivered page by page. Beautiful, feminist poems that have depth but aren’t so “deep” that they’re not accessible to everyone who needs to read this, everyone whose story they’re telling in some way. The poems/notes/literary snippets deal with different aspects of the contemporary female experience.These are poems and thoughts to break your heart, poems to make your heart smile, poems of hope and romantic love, erotic love, poems of heartbreak and healing. They feel intimate because they feel like the author writing secrets to herself and to anyone who understands the experience she’s revealing. It’s a reconciliation of being a feminist and knowing your worth and knowing you can do life alone but also feeling a natural human desire for romantic love and getting hurt and needing to heal.Kaur frequently writes in a way that reads as prose even though it’s arranged as verse. However, the way she caresses language and plays with words and ideas make this more than just a funkily-arranged self-help book. A lot of the wisdom Kaur shares is Insta-quotable if you know what I mean but that’s because even though it makes you think, it’s so very accessible. I can tell reading this that the writer is a little young but it doesn’t affect my enjoyment of this collection. This isn’t for everyone but I definitely think the meaning and importance is much more than literary, it’s filled with words we all need to read for meaning more than literary value.The biggest recommendation I can give this is that I got it on Kindle Unlimited but I love it so much I paid the money to buy it to own permanently. I might get it in print as well.
Student review:Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur is a story about a girl and what she goes through as she grows up; Rupi has more bad than good happen in her life as she grew up. It's a fiction book and a lot of her story is about boys and what she goes through to try and find love. She goes through more pain than anything else. I hate reading but every night I actually got really excited to read this book.Milk and Honey is a very good coming of age story because as she grows up she learns what's real and what's fake. Like she used to think that she loved a guy but when she started dating a guy who she actually loved she realized that she didn't actually love the last guy because she saw how real love was really supposed to be. This book has a lot of very inappropriate text with a lot of rape and sex; It's a good book for high schoolers and adults but no younger because she does get raped at one point in the book.At first I thought that this book was really confusing because in the book Rupi Kaur doesn't use any names so you have to keep track of everyone without names. But there's only one or two people she writes about at a time so that makes it a lot easier. If I ever met the author I would have a lot of questions to ask. Like why didn't she have the main character tell anyone that she was being raped? Or why didn't she give any of the characters names? And a lot more. If you are the kind of person who really likes a good book but doesn't have the time for a long book, Milk and Honey is a really good quick read. If you're just going out for a long car ride and you have nothing to do, unless you're the one driving, then buy this book and read it. It only took me a day and a half to read and I wish there were A LOT more books like it.I think that this book should be a book assigned to classes to read instead of a book that most people don't want to read. I think that students would enjoy reading this book a lot more than others that I’ve read in the past. This is a very unique book because of the way it's set up. There are a lot of amazing quotes and there's no other book that I’ve read. There are quotes like, “love is not cruel, we are cruel, love is not a game, we made a game out of love”. This is a very beautiful and amazing book that I think you should read.
"if you were born withthe weakness to fallyou were born withthe strength to rise”Self-worth, break-ups and make-ups, sexual assault, and a father’s absence are some of the many deep and emotional topics found in Milk and Honey. Rupi Kaur is very honest throughout the book and it truly shows in the quality of her work. Sometimes graphic, these poems articulate so many of the struggles that women and women of color can experience in only their first 21 years of life. The collection of works is split into four different parts: The Hurting, The Loving, The Breaking, and The Healing, and each is its own masterpiece.I was afraid that this book was over-hyped because almost every bookworm I know absolutely LOVES Milk and Honey. I took it upon myself to go through the book’s tag (#milkandhoney) on Instagram and I found thousands of photographs of Rupi Kaur’s selected poems. As soon as I read a few of them, I knew I must get my hands on this book as soon as possible. The crazy thing is that it seems like everyone can relate to at least one poem in Milk and Honey. This collection speaks to so many different people who have gone through their own unique experiences. Rupi Kaur figured out how to unite hundreds of thousands of women around the world with her words.Milk and Honey made me cry. Period. Many of the poems resonate so deeply with me that I know Rupi Kaur and I have felt the same way at certain points in our lives. It’s powerful to realize that another human being has been in the same emotional spot as you, even in times when you felt so utterly alone. The experiences that we have, as women, are not isolated events; many of us go through similar things and can connect with one another through common feelings and reactions after them. It feels good to know that Rupi Kaur, myself, and so many other women are healing and growing together.I’ve never liked poetry. It was always my least favorite unit in English class and I avoided poetry books at all costs. Now, I have 3 more poetry books on order at my local bookstore. I want to thank Rupi Kaur for reminding me that books and language can bring us together as readers and listeners. I hope she publishes more collections in the future; I’ll be the first in line to get a copy. Please, poetry fan or not, pick up a copy of this book.
Lately, I’ve been enjoying reading poetry so much! Luckily it’s also been keeping me on track with my Goodreads challenge, since they are so quick to read!Most poetry books are such amazing reads. The only reason I gave this one 4 stars was because it didn’t speak to me on a deeper level nor was it awe inducing. I did REALLY, REALLY enjoy this book though don’t get me wrong. This book has also been very popular lately. Everywhere you look it seems to be there, which is so awesome for the poetry genre! It needs more attention!This book is split into the hurting, the loving, the breaking, and the healing. So I want to share some of my favorite sections or poems from each part!The Hurting“the therapist placesthe doll in front of youit is the size of girlsyour uncles like touchingpoint to where his hands wereyou point to the spotbetween its legs the onehe fingered out of youlike a confession”This is the first poem that broke my heart in this collection!“every time youtell your daughteryou yell at herout of loveyou teach her to confuseanger with kindnesswhich seems like a good ideatill she grows up totrust men who hurt hercause they look so muchlike you– to fathers with daughters““a daughter shouldnot have tobeg her fatherfor a relationship”The truth in these poems is astounding! I just had to share it.The Loving“sometimes thoughlove will hurt you butlove will never mean tolove will play no gamescause love knows lifehas been hard enough already”That’s the only poem that meant anything to me in this section, which I find kind of sad since its the loving section of the book.The Breaking“dont mistakesalt for sugarif he wants tobe with youhe willit’s that simple”“i didn’t leave becausei stopped loving youi left because the longeri stayed the lessi loved myself”“when you are brokenand he has left youdo not questionwhether you wereenoughthe problem wasyou were so enoughhe was not able to carry it”“you treat them like theyhave a heart like yoursbut not everyone can be assoft and as tenderyou don’t see theperson they areyou see the personthey have the potential to beyou give and give tillthey pull everything out of youand leave you empty”GIRL, YAS! Yes, Yes, Yes. Go figure this section was the most relatable to me. I’m not surprised, but everything in the section was so true. Favorite section of the book. Hands down. This section is the reason I will recommend this book to people!The Healing“who tricked youinto believinganother personwas meant to complete youwhen they most they can do is complement”Unfortunately that’s the only poem I highlighted in this section. This also doesn’t surprise me because I, myself, have not completely healed so how I am supposed to connect with anything in this section. Which has absolutely nothing to do with Rupi or her book. However, the one thing I have learned in my healing process is that my partner shouldn’t complete me, but complement me instead!This really is a great read and I really enjoyed reading it. I’m sure so many people can relate and connect with at least one section in this collection!
Honestly I'm kind of salty I paid $9 for this. I would've maybe given it two stars if I checked it out at the local library for free, but I'm annoyed I invested my hard earned American dollars into this book.Either Rupi Kaur is running the biggest poetry scam of all time or this was the most over hyped book in existence. This was honestly one of those books that halfway through I thought, really? I could have written this. The majority of the "poems" are like 10 words or less. This book kind of seems like one big waste of environmental resources. Entire pages with hardly anything written on them.In my experience,Putting spacesat random pointsinyour sentencedoesn'tmake it poetryI love slam poetry and spoken word poetry and was hoping to get the same vibe from this, but sadly, no. I prefer poems will a little more meat to them. I will say, there are a HANDFUL of good poems in here. Like maybe 5-7. But most of them are just a random sentence or two with some squiggly drawing next to it that we're supposed to think is "amazing artwork."I seriously don't understand if everyone is just reading into the completely non-thought provoking "poems" in this book and making up their own deep meaning or if I'm just totally missing the boat on this one.I think Rupi is duping us. If you told me my 9-year-old nephew and 6-month-old niece collabed on this book, with him covering the poetry while she handled the artwork, I would fully believe you. And if you told me they completed it in one day, I would also believe you. And if you told me they were both on Ambien while they did it, I would STILL believe you.If you're looking for metaphors, deep poems, clever writing, etc then pass.If you're a 10th grader who just got dumped by Jimmy from home room and you wanna post a snapchat of one of these heart wrenching break up poems to express how angsty you are, you'll love it.Don't believe the hype. Try to check it out at a library or borrow it from a friend to know if you like it or not before you waste your money on it. Actually hmu if you want my copy because I sure don't.
It wasn't until I put two and two and realized the poem I'd come across a few times online--"my issue with what they consider beautiful/is their concept of beauty/centers around excluding people" (170) -- was by the same poet whose book I'd let hover unbought in my Amazon recommendations for two years. After finally buying and reading it, I can say that Rupi Kaur is absolutely my new inspiration in my own poetry writing. Not only has she mastered and honed her own writing voice, but she grabs you and flings you around a little with her words--her poems alternatively rip your heart out with how much they resonate with your own losses, soothe you as a whisper to an aching soul, remind you of important things in life you may have forgotten, and all matter of things in between. Her poetry unabashedly celebrates females and the female body as well as rages over rape, multiple forms of abuse, and other traumas that are unique to them. Her poems soar, invoke quiet meditation, may leave you crying over how incredibly true the hurts are, and ultimately leaves you drained but also thrilled, in awe of the spectrum of human experience/emotions and of the potential all of us hold within ourselves. (Non sequitur: there are just a couple of references to her Punjabi heritage, but I personally believe it's very important to clearly understand her position as a female writer of color--explicit references to her culture are few, but as she explains on her website, her punctuation choices and lack of capital letters is a homage to the Punjabi language as well as a visual statement of equality.)Nutshell version/an extra note: Absolutely, absolutely consider getting this book. Rupi Kaur's poetry is SO powerful and there is so much to love about it. It follows a similar narrative (heartbreak/loss) to "I Wrote This for You," but throws in some other things as mentioned above. I do like "I Wrote This," but I feel it tends to slip into "woe is me" and cliches too often--Milk and Honey does a much better job of avoiding them.
I loved this book. I honestly cannot think of a proper way to describe how this book made me feel. The best word I can think of to possibly describe this book is “life-changing”.I didn’t know completely what to expect when diving into this one other than the fact that it was a hugely popular modern poetry book, and I had been dying to read some good poetry so that was enough for me. I loved this book from page one, and finished it within a few hours with the strong urge to read it again right away.Kaur’s writing is magical, chilling, tear-jerking. I had constant goosebumps on my arms while reading it. As a matter of fact, I got goosebumps just skimming through it looking for content for this review. I felt as if she’d taken so many of my thoughts and feelings and articulated them in a way I never could. If someone asked me to explain to them my deepest, most intense feelings of pleasure and despair, I would tell them to read milk and honey by Rupi Kaur and they would understand me. I felt as though this book was cradling me or wrapped around my like favorite blanket, or maybe both.The book also features small doodle-like illustrations on many of the poems. I adore these, and I feel like they give the book a very personal feel, as if you’re peeking into someone’s diary. It helps you feel more connected with Kaur, as well as adds emotion to the poem it accompanies.I put down this book feeling strong and powerful and in control. I put it down feeling like I could do literally anything. I put it down feeling proud of my past and excited for my future. I put it down feeling proud to be the woman I am, and that is the effect it has, and that is why I call it life-changing. Because it was. And I know I will carry this around in my backpack and go back to it when I’m feeling my lowest, because it’s the kind of book that whispers in your ear and tells you that you’re strong enough to overcome whatever you’re facing.
I chose to read Milk and Honey for a book club book, and I am glad I did because it is just one of those books everyone needs to read. Although it was not your “average” story, it was a thought-provoking read. I recommend reading this book. The author wrote about her real life experiences, which made the book more interesting. This book allowed me to thing deeply about the events that were going on, and piece loose ends together. Milk and Honey involved a series of events that involved hurting, loving, breaking, and healing. I believe that the author, Rupi Kaur, wrote this novel to connect with his readers, and let them know that they are not alone.However, if you are not a fan of poetry novels, Milk and Honey may not be for you. It is composed of four sections filled poem-like quotes; therefore, it is not for everyone. It is a very quick read, and can be read cover to cover in one sitting. There were no characters because this story is an autobiography about tough times and love written in a poetic form. However, she does mention incidents regarding her ex boyfriend and her friends.Milk and Honey is a touching realization about good and bad times in the life of humans. It had quotes like, “the way they leave tells you everything” (Kaur 143), which really allows you to think about the meaning of the quote, and also reflect on your life. As I read this book I became mesmerized by all of the different quotes; yet some of them hit harder than others. The quotes were all important to the development of the text. Although I do believe that girls would appreciate this novel more than guys, guys may like it too. This book was filled with quotes that people need to hear and see with their own eyes. It teaches you about love, loss, and hurting. Overall, it was hard to put the book down.
I do not normally write reviews, but this book was so extraordinary that I felt it was warranted:This book is, in my opinion, something everyone should read, regardless of gender. The author is female, and so of course it is written from a female perspective, but everyone has experienced love, loss, heartbreak and healing. We can all find something which speaks to us in her book.I am not usually that big a fan of poetry reading, mostly because they tend to be angsty or exhaustively epic. I also find that most poetry I've run across (or wished to run over, hah) has used gimmicks like line breaks to cover up crappy writing and introduce a whiff of true creativity where none really exists.This is not the case with Milk and Honey. All through the book, I've felt that every line break she placed in her writing served a purpose and highlighted a specific detail or an intentional pause meant to make the reader (and perhaps the writer herself) really think about what exactly was going on in the piece. It's easy to skim over poetry and then congratulate oneself on being so very well-read and cosmopolitan, but really getting into the meat and bones (or hummus and quinoa, if you should so prefer) of good poetry takes a great deal of concentration and analysis.What is the subject of the piece?Why do you think she wrote the piece?How did the writing and its style make me feel?Why did I feel this way?Is it actually applicable to my own life?If so, in what way does it apply?Is it possible to use any increased understanding of my own life I have gained by reading this work to increase my acceptance and treatment of others and/or better my own life and actions?Milk and Honey makes you think, and it also (given a chance) forces you to feel. It is rare indeed that writing of any sort makes me emotional, far less teary. Ms. Kaur's book did just that, and if for nothing else but that alone, I highly recommend it.
