#rupi kaur review

[thecasualbookreviewer]

Currently reading:

The sun and her flowers, rupi kaur

[binabadaboom]

Do you know how freeing it is to realize people are just stupid. Finding out that rupi kaurs milk and honey outsold the odyssey, and then actually reading it (let’s just say it was not good) was a bright light of realization for me. I don’t care what the general public thinks of me or my writing, because the general public has a wet sponge for a brain if this garbage got published, went viral, and outsold a literal masterpiece.

Also I get it, she speaks to a younger generation that clearly resonates with her, but I mean it’s literally a break up book with triggering content thrown in for shock value. it’s touted as a beacon of self love and healing, but it just fell flat for me.

[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/

[nauticalreads]

'Milk and Honey' Review

⭐️ 5/5

📄 296

🌊 Poetry Collection

🌶️ low, references and mentions but nothing on page.

⚠️ abuse, sexual assault, sexism.

⚓️ Short version, I loved it. The long version, well that's a different story. There are two versions of Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur and I've read them both. In the winter of 2018, I picked up the original version of the collection (the smaller, black and white copy) and immediately fell in love with it. Like a lot of things in life, we crossed paths when it was meant to happen. I whole heartedly believe that I didn't find Milk and Honey, it found me when I needed her most.

Now, in 2025, I had the pleasure of reading the 10th Anniversary edition of Milk and Honey, and I can't believe that I love it even more than I did then. The old poems and drawings mixed with the new feels like an expression of self love and forgiveness for a past self. With annotations from Rupi Kaur and other guest annotators, the reader is gifted an insight to her life on a deeper level than the already vulnerable piece of art that 'Milk and Honey' is in itself.

[lilithspade]

Leitura #4 de 2025

Outros jeitos de usar a boca

Rupi Kaur

⭐️⭐️⭐️

As poesias desse livro são, em sua maioria, bem impactantes e vários tocam fundo em qualquer mulher. Mas também tem vários poemas que foram bem meh.

No geral é um livro bom e com uma pegada bem visceral em relação aos traumas retratados.

[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.

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[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.

[dijetemjeseca]

Rupi Kaur, Home Body: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[reading-queerly]

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[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

[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

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