Name: Milk and Honey
ISBN: 9781449474256

Rupi Kaur

Milk and Honey

Freya mortensen

Lindsay

nanafark

Levi-Mae 

Addison

Leslie

// made me feel on fire (note: B.M folded this page for me) 22.11.23

Sinead Gallagher

i do not want to have you to fill the empty parts of me 

i want to be so complete i could light a whole city 

cause the two of us combined could set it on fire

Mary Carmona

Tania Santos Ferro

the thing about writing is i can't tell if it's healing or destroying me 

atlas

grow flowers from it                          

You have helped me                         

Bloom beautifully                              

Dangerously                                      

you were wrong for coming back and thinking

Kim Traas

evie coxon

i deserve financial compensation for being made to read this in my senior literary capstone

Clara Gauthier

Megan Parrott

I was especially fond of the last section, “the healing,” on body positivity. The whole collection is worth reading a few times though.

haewon

Tsamarah

It was not ALL bad, but it was not ALL good either. Few bookmarks here and there but nothing really stays.

anna

I was expecting so much more... I liked a few of the poems, mostly the ones I already know and I appreciate the honesty of the author in some of them but really I am a bit disappointed. People always hype up this book so much and I really didn't enjoy it that much.

Relatable in every way is an understatement. Her words, pain, and deep connection for others and herself will forever make this my go-to book. Each piece takes you through the human experience of loving and losing and speaks to such profound feelings. Needless to say, I will always be a Rupi Kaur fan. 

Julia

Vicky  Nuñez 

The power of words is undeniable. And Rupi Kaur shows that in Milk and Honey. 
I don't think a single woman can't relate to at least one of her poems. They are hearbreaking and relatable and a book about the silent female struggle. Loved it!

Date Read:
 October 13, 2019 

 Actual Rating: 3.00 STARS 

First attempt at reading poetry and I would say I have a few lines that I came to like. A pretty good first try for this kind of read. Maybe I'll be trying to read more poetry in the future.

Christine Kraus

More of a 3.5 stars. I really enjoyed the messages that came across to me on my first read through of this book, but I didn't feel like it really enthralled me as much as I had anticipated. This was probably because of the immense hype that has surrounded it and the fact that I walked in with fairly high expectations. However, I do think that it's quite topical and the topics it broaches are very important and should be discussed, and that to the right individual many of the messages will stick for years to come.

chloe rae

Damn. This was SO GOOD. It was sweet and sexy and raw and just gorgeously written. This book is split into four sections and I have to say that the first section didn't really grasp me. It wasn't until I started the second section that I was completely intrigued by her words. From there I had to keep stopping to take a moment to let her words sink in. Some of the poems were so profound I simply had to take a pause. Stunning words.
I'm fairly new to the poetry world but I can't wait to see where all I go from here. I'm already planning on going back through this book today to bookmark specifics that I can find later on. I'm excited to continue on in this genre!

Catarina Lopes 

Annika Arguemore

Not my type of poetry, but I can see how this could be cathartic for some people.

Julia Moran 

Nah just nah, for the most part this isn't poetry AT ALL but shower thoughts, don't try to sell it as poetry. Don't get me wrong there are "poems" that I liked a lot, but the majority of it was pretty bad. I think Rupi has a lot of potential and I praise her for sharing such personal things but she just has to learn to write actual poetry or not target it as such.

Kritika Narula

azliana aziz

certainly overrated. there's a few poems / lines?? that i like but the repetitive nature of her writing really did not go well with me. some of the poems basically were just an upgrade/downgrade version of another and they just failed to add any meaningful quality to them. 
kaur have potential. i mean i like her ideas but the execution here was pretty much subpar.

Amazing.

Some parts made me teary eyed. Some poems made my heart ache. Some just ~meh~. But the messages are very powerful especially to the women. I feel like all women should read this.

Lauren

The artwork is absolutely beautiful. I loved this.

Selkie

This entire book.

It resonated with my very soul, touched something fragile and delicate in my heart. It felt like hearing my thoughts, looking into a mirror.
I shed tears but I was comforted at the same time. I will forever be grateful that I decided to pick this book up by curiosity, and that ended up being my most treasured book.

Melissa Palmer

Book #76 Read in 2017
milk and honey by rupi kaur

This is a book of poetry that tackles tough issues such as sex, abuse and feminism. This book is garnering a lot of attention online and among my students. The risqué drawings will definitely get the reader's attention. I borrowed this book from one of my students.

I'm not the biggest poetry fan to be honest, so reading this was a relief to be able to understand on the face of it, rather than having to read and keep reading until I understand.

I did read it in one sitting, and I think everyone would be able to do so as well. 

I think the reason it's rated so low is, I don't relate to alot of this book, luckily. I can't really say i've been in senarios which relate to the main points of this book, but I think if you're someone who's been taken advantage of, who just feels kind of numb to love or anything along those lines, it would definatly hit hard.

Some quotes did stick out to me, and I interperated many of them in my own sort of way, changing the relationship focus to a friendship focus. 

I did also skip poems which Ifound didn't really relate to me in any way, and any poems which were relatively suggestive, only because they didn't seem like something I really want to read.

This is just the start of my poetry journey, so it's interesting to see where i'll go from here.

surtified™

I'm not the biggest poetry fan to be honest, so reading this was a relief to be able to understand on the face of it, rather than having to read and keep reading until I understand.

I did read it in one sitting, and I think everyone would be able to do so as well. 

I think the reason it's rated so low is, I don't relate to alot of this book, luckily. I can't really say i've been in senarios which relate to the main points of this book, but I think if you're someone who's been taken advantage of, who just feels kind of numb to love or anything along those lines, it would definatly hit hard.

Some quotes did stick out to me, and I interperated many of them in my own sort of way, changing the relationship focus to a friendship focus. 

I did also skip poems which Ifound didn't really relate to me in any way, and any poems which were relatively suggestive, only because they didn't seem like something I really want to read.

This is just the start of my poetry journey, so it's interesting to see where i'll go from here.

Libertad Aguilar

I loved this book. I kept highlighting my favorite parts in the poems. It’s a must for ANY woman/young lady/girl in my opinion

Hannah Yang

I love poetry - I love reading it, I love writing it, etc. and I've heard so many great things about milk and honey. After reading it, though, I feel extremely conflicted.

All of these poems are very personal and I can tell the author put her heart into them. I can tell what I'm supposed to be feeling as I read these poems, from aching sadness to boiling anger to quiet healing... the problem is, I'm not feeling it. I think, for now, I may not have experienced enough to understand the words.

Perhaps if I had a physical copy of the book, I would 'get it', but I believe if the poems were good enough, reading them on a Kindle or in a paperback wouldn't make a difference. It could be because I'm too young or too privileged or too something to relate to the kind of pain that tears through these pages. If I go back and read the same poems in five years, maybe I'll be crying over somebody. But for now, I just feel a bit numb.

I did love some of the poems, though. Rupi Kaur places words exquisitely on a page, taking aim at the reader's heart. It is her honesty and her straightforwardness that sets these poems apart from others. The complementing illustrations were lovely, and the varying lengths of the poems were a nice touch. And the poems certainly deal with some triggering / tough topics. It is extremely raw writing, and I understand the hype around milk and honey. 

So, I will recommend milk and honey, but I would not go into it expecting poetry that will knock you out. I believe the poems will mean more to those who have experienced the feelings the author writes about. 

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    i know small talk is the only way you know how to tell me you love me. cause it is the only way i know how to tell you.
  
  

  
    what am i to you he asks
i put my hands in his lap
and whisper you
are every hope
i've ever had
in human form
  
  

  
    i know i 
should crumble
for better reasons
but have you seen
that boy he brings
the sun to its
knees every
night
  
  

  
    neither of us is happy
but neither of us wants to leave
so we keep breaking one another
and calling it love
  
  

  
    people go
but how
they left
always stays
  
  

  
    but that isn't romantic. it isn't sweet. the idea that they were so engulfed by your existence they had to risk breaking it for the sake of knowing they weren't the one missing out. your existence meant that little next to their curiosity of you.

that is the thing about selfish people. they gamble entire beings. entire souls to please their own.
  
  

  
    the thing about writing is
i can't tell if it's healing 
or destroying me
  
  

  
    loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself
  
  

  
    sometimes
the apology
never comes
when it is wanted

and when it comes
it is neither wanted
nor needed
  
  

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