#rupi kaur review

[thecasualbookreviewer]

Currently reading:

The sun and her flowers, rupi kaur

[lotrmusical]

Like the rainbow after the rain joy will reveal itself after sorrow

'send me lines of poetry' ask game was a HORRIBLE MISTAKE because sometimes your EVIL FRIENDS will use it as an excuse to TORMENT YOU. watching these asks arrive one by one and trying to figure out how i was going to reply sincerely took literal years off my life. this is my elijah wood wigs interview moment. thanks @ultravioletness

[dijetemjeseca]

Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[writingmylifesstory]

Poetry Review

Homebody by Rupi Kaur

I always like reading Rupi’s work. She’s not my favorite modern poet anymore (Courtney Peppernell currently takes that) I don’t always relate to Rupi’s topics, but the verses that do strike home, strike home hard.

Thanks for the writing, Rupi! I’ll probably pick up anything you write.

Easy prose, feminist and immigrant musings, and big ideas/feelings composed in small meanings

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ out of 5 stars

[travelingviabooks]

milk and honey by Rupi Kaur ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Genre: nonfiction, feminism, poetry

Country: Canada, India

Review:

It’s been a while since I’ve read poetry and I’m definitely late getting to this book. I really like Kaur’s writing. It’s simple, but very moving. There were some poems that I didn’t care for, but I liked the majority of this anthology. I think it’s a great collection. Especially for someone who is maybe just starting to get into poetry.

Would I recommend this book?: Yes

[enituoriah]

http://www.enituoriah.com/rupi-kaur-milk-honey/

[haveacupofjohanny]

#SaturdayReads: Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

Genre: PoetryRating: 5-stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Format: Audiobook *Powerful Poetry: A string of words that create a visceral reaction that touches the very soul of the reader; raw, vulnerable writing; writing that fires the soul; a mirror for the soul. I’m in awe of “Milk and Honey” by Rupi Kaur. Experiencing this powerful poetry as an audiobook was an excellent choice. Reading it silently wouldn’t have…

[teenageread]

Review: The Sun and Her Flowers

Synopsis:

From Rupi Kaur, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. A vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honoring one’s roots. Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself.

Divided into five chapters and illustrated by Kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms.

this is the recipe of life

said my mother

as she held me in her arms as i wept 

think of those flowers you plant

in the garden each year 

they will teach you

that people too

must wilt

fall

root

rise

in order to bloom

Plot:

*Trigger Warnings: Abuse (sexual)* 

The poems are divided into the five chapters of a flower’s life. From the wilting of the old one, to the feeling and rooting for another, the rising and then the blooming, begin the cycle once again. From sexual abuse, abuse, sexual desire, femininity, the standards of beauty, and immigration, this collection of poems ranges from one liners to a few pages long. Her poems can drive a truckload of feelings to you with only a few words like: “Yes / it is possible / to hate and love someone / at the same time / i do it to myself / every day” (101). All in lowercase, this book shows a soft side to this novel, as Rupi Kaur is not preaching, or yelling her story, but explaining it softly in as few words as possible, to those who want to know how to deal.

Thoughts: 

There are two people in the world: those who think this is poetry, and those who do not. Like most two-sided things, a lot of people fall in the middle, which is where Rupi Kaur’s poetry is. It does not follow any of the formats people learn, but a free style poetry that can look easy depending on how good of a writer you are. Some of her poems will make the cynical roll their eyes like this one: “Together we are an endless conversation” (185). The lover birds will fall head over heels for this poem: “I will welcome / a partner / who is my equal” (159). Overall love them or hate them, Kaur definitely knows how to write. This book is larger than her previous one: Milk and Honey, which she self-published and then it hit the mainstream and became big. This one also had more of a story poem to it, with the black borders having a beginning, middle and end taking up several pages. From the pains of heartbreak, desire of new love, to her parent's immigration story, Kaur let people inside her mind, letting them know it is okay not to be okay, and that they are perfect no matter who they are, or what they look like.

Read more reviews: Goodreads

Buy the book: Amazon

[no-where-new-hero]

omg I need your thoughts on the terminally o line author culture bc ngl it makes my eye TWITCH, there are authors I deliberately avoid even tho I've heard their stuff is good bc they're like that 🙈

HHHHH oh good lord, okay, from how I see it, there are two angles on this, both aggravating and sad: the official decree one and the spontaneous ecosystem one.

The officious one is that the nature of publishing nowadays demands an author have an online presence. You need Twitter/X. You need to let every potential reader know your book is coming out. You need engagement through reviews and pre-orders incentives (if you buy now you’ll get a special keychain!!) and word of mouth assurances from your peers that yes your book is as cool as you say it is. You need a newsletter with links (more buying! more voting on lists that are simply popularity contests!) and promises you’re still working on the next thing, don’t forget about me in the morass of everyone else doing the same thing. You need an Instagram and TikTok now to post pretty pictures and videos because one or two authors made it big off this kind of promotion and now everyone thinks it’s the ticket to the bestseller list (sadly, it seems to be working). You need an OnlyFans (a joke but I do recall a twt spat that was a joke/not joke about how rupi kaur will always be more beautiful than her critics and people who took issue with the conflation of beauty with talent). At the end of all this, you’re basically an influencer, a content creator creating content for the content you should be focusing on creating, the finished novel. And the novel itself seems to be disappearing behind the masks used to promote it (fanfic-style tropes, moodboards, playlists, memes) until I now no longer trust the book that I’ll pick up to have any resemblance to the enticements that brought me here. I’ve seen an author or two complain about the stress all this self-promotion generates, but it’s become such an entrenched part of the industry, I think people just accept it. And thus spend too much time online hoping that if they tweet just a little more, produce just one more reel, maybe that’ll be the difference between a sale and no sale.

The other side of this, distinct but obviously connected, is the ecosystem created by this panic of being perpetually visible coupled with the fact that so many of the new authors came of age during the rise of internet fandom culture. That opinionated community mindset that blurs the line between anonymity and friendship is the lens they bring to their own work. I mean, it makes sense I suppose—if you love yelling about characters and words, why wouldn’t you do that once you start to produce your own? This really came home to me hearing about that reviewbombgate “scandal” and how people involved were in reylo circles and that was used to provide receipts. You’re interacting with your readers and peers about your intimate work but they are also all strangers. They will not always give you the benefit of the doubt, and now—as opposed to the past when maybe the worst that could happen was a handful of bad reviews in newspapers—you will either be tagged in hate reviews, sub-tweeted, explicitly called out, demanded to atone for your sins. It’s no longer the morality of consumption but the morality of production. Of course, the easy answer is just log-off, touch some grass. But that can work only when you and everyone else are separated by anonymous accounts or when you have no platform to maintain. As an author trying to make your livelihood from this, suddenly it’s do or die. We’re in a strange moment of authorship bringing the Internet’s echo-chamber and claustrophobic into the real world (this is a lie: publishing now is no longer the real world. But it looks like it) and thus you can kind of no longer escape things.

Will the average reader who isn’t aware of all these machinations care about reviewbombgate? Would a reader browsing at Target think about the controversies around Lightlark? Very likely not. But the impression I’m getting more and more is that the average reader isn’t the one buying all the books. Or shall we say—a bestseller’s status relies on bookstore stock. Bookstore stock is only huge when they know a book will be a good investment. They’ll only know a book is a good investment if it and its author has street cred based on booktokkers, bookstagram, bloggers and reviewers (have you noticed how many books out these last maybe 1-3 years have these kinds of accounts thanked in the acknowledgments? Yeah), and THESE are also chronically online people who will Know. And decide the cast of fate.

Honestly, @batrachised, I see why you avoid these kinds of writers, though I wonder how long it’ll be before the disease becomes epidemic.

[thecasualbookreviewer]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

the sun and her flowers, rupi kaur

Summary:

The sun and her flowers is a collection of poetry about Grief, Self-abandonment, Honoring one’s roots, Love, And empowering oneself

Divided into five chapters and illustrated by kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms.

Review:

This was my first approach to modern poetry and while it took me a little bit to get the hang of it, and not all of the poems were something that spoke to me, but those that did I can only explain it in four words: Raw, real, heart breaking, healing.

It's nothing like the poetry I was used to but I don't necessarily consider that a bad thing, it was just a different way to express her emotions. I would give it a try, it's not a long read, and it's very interesting to see the illustrationsthat she also made for her poems.

[notyouraryang0dd3ss]

One thing that I personally find super frustrating about Taylor Swift is the way she plays into the myth of the "lone genius" artist. Without collaboration, nothing gets done; or, if it does, it's typically of low or inconsistent quality. And this is true in pretty much ANY field or discipline you can think of: scientific research, advocacy work, etc. The fact that Taylor considers herself above that and persists in selling the myth of her "lone genius" to fans honestly feels malevolent and arrogant to me.

It's truly ridiculous, at the end of the day, that people call her a "poet" and "genius songwriter" for doing everything on her own. I think it really showcases how little she understands when it comes to poetry as an art form. Most legendary writers and poets have multiple people look over their work and go through many stages of the editing process. One of the purposes of art is to communicate, and it's honestly hard to tell sometimes if what you've written has meaning and communicates well outside of your own brain. Peer review is ESSENTIAL for writers.

I think it's also very telling that she considers herself a legendary poet and actively plays into that mythology by circulating the fact that she's distantly related to Emily Dickinson. As someone who has loved and studied literature for many years, I can honestly say that Taylor Swift's closest comparative when it comes to writing is Rupi Kaur. Pinterest poetry, and nothing more. And she has the arrogance to compare herself to one of the most important poets in American literary canon!

I'm reminded of something I heard Hozier say a little while back (I'm forgetting now which interview) about people praising his lyricism as poetry. He essentially called those claims an insult to poetry, stating that there are structural rules in music (rhyme scheme, beat, etc.) that he adheres to that poets don't have to, and that poets can be much more experimental and revolutionary in form (at least when it comes to the written word vs. the sung word). Only someone who genuinely loves poetry would say something like this; plus, it shows that he thinks about the different impacts that form can have on art the messages it communicates. And this, coming from one of the best singer/songwriters currently working!

TS and Hozier aren't writing in the same genre, but I do think it's interesting to compare them as artists in their respective approaches to lyricism. When it comes to Taylor, I think she cares more about the aesthetic of poetry as an art form than the actual art itself. Her writing doesn't actively interact with the literary canon that inspired it, like Hozier's does (or other great lyricists, like Kendrick/Florence/Mitski/Elton). Her writing feels very hollow and devoid of meaning to me.

i just want to say your ask and analysis was so well written 😭 thank you for sending this in!

Completely agree that Swift's solo songwriting genius is a myth. Only 2/16 songs from TTPD were solely credited to her...which means 12.5% of the album is solely her own writing. That is not a songwriting genius. That's just a songwriter. She already knows her fans are completely sold and convinced on her songwriting genius so of course she would drag out her ancestry.com results and up-play her relation to Emily Dickinson to help sell the aesthetic of the album. Everything for her is another marketing strategy. She has no respect for poetry, let alone writing as a craft itself. If you view her behavior through the lens of another writer, it's absolutely abhorrent, but if you view it through the lens of another capitalist, it's absolute genius.

I love your Hozier comparison because Hozier is only 4 months younger than Taylor yet the quality of their lyricism are oceans apart. Hozier has proven himself to be a talented writer time and time again throughout the course of his career, and the best songwriters often know and understand the power of other writing mediums. (BTW I know what Hozier interview you’re talking about! Here it is :))

What makes a great writer is knowing the canon, and knowing other writing mediums very well. It's why the greatest songwriters incorporate canon not only of their own genre and medium but of other texts as well (I'm biased because I listened to Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights today and I know its an adaptation but still its relevant here). Intextuality is the foundation of a great work, and Taylor's work has none.

As the other anon(s) have pointed out, Taylor no longer makes music as art. She makes music for money. I don't think any artist who likes what they do or cares about what they produce would put out an album like that, with lyrics like that, and its content. At least Rupi Kaur's writing impacted poetry in bringing it into the mainstream; I don't exactly understand what ttpd could offer as a text or in pop culture.

TLDR: hozier makes music for people who eat it from the back and then handfeed you grapes afterwards. taylor swift makes music for white girls entering their first day of 7th grade send tweet

[dijetemjeseca]

Rupi Kaur, Home Body: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[spoonfulofmilo]

Could you do SMAU for James Vowles with wife bookish!reader? She has always been looking around the paddock with a book. Whenever she goes, there is always one with her. She always liked sharing online what she was reading and wanted to normalize it. The internet is always talking and discussing what book she should read next. As for James, he always supports her hobby as long as she is at his side. Just fluff and cute. So, that's it. Add anything you want to it. I don't mind them. Thanks!! :)))

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3 stars

The story of this book was good, however, I had to disregard many other issues in order to stay in sync with it. It started off with many grammatical errors despite it decreasing later on in the novel, it affected the narrative overall. There were redundant phrases that made some parts of the story seem dragged on. I believe the book could have been shorter, a lot shorter than 190 pages. There was no shock factor or suspense in it; maybe because the whole story was already written *on the back of the book*. 🙃

Read the rest of my review from the link in my bio, but thank you bahrain for an amazing time. And thank you james for helping me buy all these books.

‘But there is never a day i stop loving you’ - Love letters by ezana Salgado

1 star

There's such a thing as ethereal "dreamy" (A.B. Yehoshua's "The Lover"), and there is incoherency. I don't fault the author entirely in this work, but I suspect it has been overly reworked by an overexcited English-language collaborator with a "bursting-the-seams" exuberance to evoke the Arabian culture that this novel loses the reader. The introduction section gives a glimpse of how much facelift is performed while tweaking the novel into English. There are surely better works to get a closer look at this fascinating locale and time period.

Read the rest of my review from the link in my bio. Thanks Saudi Arabia for an awesome time, even if this book was not it. And thank you to james who will listen to all my rants about books that he paid for that i hated.

‘If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land. If my love were a desert, you would see only sand. If my love were a star - late at night, only light. And if my love could grow wings, i’d be soaring in flight.’ - thirteen reasons why

2 stars

Pedestrian. The writing, the story, the characters all just too pedestrian. There was nothing that lifted this book in to the realm of interesting, or even 'mildly interesting'. It's the sort of book I keep in the glove compartment of my car. I know I'm never going to read it but there is always the possibility 

especially with the vehicles I drive of being stuck with a broken-down truck or a road block with nothing to read. That sort of book.

Read the rest of my review from the link in my bio. I mean a good thing I guess is that we had the entire flight for me to ignore my husband and read.

‘What am i to you…you are every hope i’ve ever had in human form’ - milk and honey by rupi kaur

4 stars

well that was just lovely.

Read the rest of my review from the link in my bio. I love Japan and I love Japanese books, now let’s try and get my husband to like Japan.

‘I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.’ - notting hill

5 stars

THAT ENDING THOUGH!!!!

Read the rest of my review from the link in my bio. Thank you China. And thank you for having authors who write books as amazingly as Chloe Chong.

‘You’re worth the wait’ - happily ever after

3 stars

I like Joy Harjo a lot, by which I guess I mean I have read two of her poems and think about them frequently and also I like the idea of who she is, and I thought this was nice and I like the way she uses language but it did not make me realize things about my own life which is what really gets me going from memoirs

Read the rest of my review from the link in my bio. I wanted to try and read a book that James would read, so he picked this one and it was okay.

‘Because the possibility of you is better than the reality of everyone else’ - twisted hate by ana huang

taglist: @leosxrealm, @tallrock35, @wolf-knights, @janeholt3, @pear-1206

[jalwyn21]

First of all, I love Taylor's works. I love a handful of her songs from different eras, but I'm too much of a casual listener to even consider myself a Swiftie. Like, I know some of the Swift lore, but not enough to be considered an avid fan. But if I'm being honest, even from a 'casual fan's' perspective, it's so evident that she's... not a very nice person and quite dumb-dumb too.

(I don't know how to articulate this well and I'm quite sleepy while typing this but...)

So, okay, I've mentioned that I know some Swift lore and the one I found ludicrous is the Back to December one. I know that's a Taylor Lautner song. For the longest time, I thought she broke up with him because she's having doubts/fears about their relationship through her line: "And then the cold came, the dark days when fear crept into my mind..." I honestly thought she broke up with him because she's scared that Taylor L. was going to John Mayer her, but when reviewing her dating history, it was only then I realized that she broke up with TL to get with JM and it was the most stupidest thing ever I couldn't even comprehend it. Like... TL is that guy. The good guy and he's proven it again and again that he's a nice guy and would be a perfect partner (or maybe he's had some past scandals but I don't give a shit about celebrities lives)... But she dropped him off to be with JM?? JOHN MAYER?? Who's decades older than her?

Stupid girl, indeed. Look what that brought you. Now she's just singing about how he mistreated her well tough luck, Miss Swift. You got yourself in that mess. You lost who could've possibly been the best person in your life and replaced him with the worst thing she could experience and I truly believe she deserved it.

In conclusion... she's not a Mastermind like she claimed. She's just a dumbass whiny lass.

Also, "my eyes leak acid rain" is such a cringy line. That's why I despise that song that I wish I could unhear it. I wrote something similar back in elementary or high school. And everyone calls her a good poet? Read better poems, and toss your Rupi Kaur.

Oh, yeah, she dumped Taylor L for John M. And then acted like a victim. 🙄 Of course. 🙄

This is why she has no "bad songs" about him. Cause she left him for another man. 🤭 Don't look to deep though, you might notice a pattern in how she moves. 🤭

[saintescuderia]

How To Become A Writer?

Responses will vary. They all won’t answer you.

It happened when I started working full-time.

It’s interesting that — as soon as Teams calls and spreadsheets became a reality, the adjoining tabs open would have Google searches on how to become a writer. 

The very question: how to become a writer? It’s funny to think that Google could’ve provided an answer to something writers themselves has been struggling to answer for the longest time. Every single Paris Review Interview provides a different response — albeit they all share the same trait of being philosophical, artistic and not at all straightforward. 

The only straightforward thing I could find on how to become a writer was the Google-sponsored website of Medium. It seemed like this was the updated version of early 2000s blogging and Wordpress. 

I had tried Wordpress. I had also given up on Wordpress. 

And so I tried Medium. I shortly gave up on Medium. 

It wasn’t due to the same reasons, though. Wordpress was confusing and isolating. Medium was easier and you already had articles to read before you noticed the little button to write your own. However, therein lay the problem: Medium gave me nowhere to hide. Was I fully ready to embrace it? Was I ready for my life to change? Eevery word I put out there has to be perfectly selected and crafted in my own original way that I am changing lives with each paragraph. No matter the fact that I don’t even know what I’m doing or why I’m doing it. I just know that I need to do it. 

The imposter syndrome got to me. No matter the inherent desire to do this — something existing since the days of waking up 5am before school to write fanfiction — I just couldn’t stay consistent. 

During my brief Medium interlude last time, I did see a trend. People would try to build their following through writing consistently for 30 days. 90 days. It didn’t really matter. They ahd set a goal and wrote — and posted — consistently for that alloted amount of days. 

I read some of those posts. They weren’t all life-changing. They weren’t philosophical or even artistic. But they were straightforward. They were here, I did it. It’s not great, but I showed up and did it anyway. If I think about what is missing from this, it’s that very thing. To get just get over myself and write badly because bad writing is inevitable. 

So, here is my own 30 day challenge. I'm documenting this not just on Medium but also on the website that has had my back since the inception of my personality as a whole. Tumblr.

It may be odd to think that I am using Tumblr as a means to post my work and start to build up a portfolio, if you will. Tumblr's day has passed and it gave the likes of Rupi Kaur her platform back in 2010s - we've moved past that!

Sure. Neil Gaiman is still on here.

Also, unlike Wordpress or Wix or any of those other sites, the 10+ years I've spent on this forbidden 'hell-site' means I actually know how to use the damn thing. If we're going to embark on the journey of writing everyday, at least give me the past of least resistance. I know Tumblr.

Because, really, this is all so I can get out of the ivory tower that is every writer’s self-doubts and insecurities. Who knows, maybe I’ll start to figure out just what it is to be a writer. 

(It also helps that F1 is back. That may or may not be a coincidence.)

[steelycunt]

hii ridi, hope you’re drinking so much tea + that you feel better soon!! 4, 16, and 21 please <3

hii darling thank you so much!!

4. did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

for sure from the top of my head umm eva baltasar, eliza clark, patrick radden keefe as a non fiction writer.. : ^ )

16. what is the most over-hyped book you read this year?

ooh there were quite a few i really didnt like this year but i think in terms of being overhyped the worst had to be on the savage side by tiffany mcdaniel...also just one of the worst books ive ever read in my life it was so bad ive got personal beef with tiffany mcdaniel after it. i can only think the 'dark' themes combined with the pseudo poetic fake pretentious language was a hit with the rupi kaur crowd or something because i know mcdaniel is a really highly regarded author but i genuinely cannot think of a single nice thing to say about that book it wasnt worth the paper it was printed on. absolute garbage im so serious

21. did you participate in or watch any booklr, booktube, or book twitter drama?

participate absolutely not and tbh i cant recall any major drama outside of booktokers being booktokers as usual like that girl saying when shes reading if theres a long paragraph she skips it and everyone suddenly being shocked that a booktok crowd that seems to enjoy almost exclusively daddydom romances was full of trump supporters. did however get kinda sucked into that lauren oyler takedown drama where ann manov wrote an absolutely scathing review of her essay collection which i found pretty funny. because oyler seems insufferable. so there was that

end of year book asks!!