One of the books I read during the first semester was Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur. Milk and Honey is a book with 204 pages of poetry about her different kinds of pain she faced. Kaur split the four different types of pain into their own chapters. The chapters are the hurting, the loving, the breaking, and the healing. Each poem is either about her relationship, love, feminism, or her trying to find herself in her own body
Chapter 1 was called “The hurting”. The hurting was about her relationship with her boyfriend and being raped. She talks about how her boyfriend hurt and abused her. Kupi talks about how she doesn’t feel the freedom of her own body. The poems in the first chapter are mainly comparing her relationship with love and rape.
The loving was the second chapter of the book. Chapter 2 is about her actually loving her new boyfriend because he is not abusing her and is actually loving her. When she is with the new boyfriend she finds herself and is finally loving herself.
The Breaking is the third chapter of Milk and Honey. The breaking focuses more on the dark side of life, breaking up with her boyfriend. In the third chapter she finds the difference between needing someone and wanting someone in her life.
The healing is the final chapter of the book. This chapter focuses again on gaining that self love back. She also talks about her recovery from her relationship.
Overall I give this book a 4.5/5. I gave this rating because I really enjoyed it and I learned about life. I would highly recommend this book to someone who enjoys reading about love and pain..
This sounds like a very good book to get into when in a time of need. As a reader did you find it difficult to read some of that chapters? Seeing as society had/has issues with the acceptance of discussing some of the issues Rupi Kaur wrote about, do you think she had to face backlash?
ReplyDeleteIt was not difficult for me to read the chapters because that kind of stuff doesn't get to me. I do think she was faced with backlash from the situations.
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ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a very touching book. I’ve heard many good things about this book and I might have to read it for myself. Do you like poetry? Since this book is all poetry
I don't mind poetry, it's not my favorite though sometimes its hard for me to interpret what they are trying to say.
DeleteAs a poetry fanatic myself, I love Rupi Kaur because she is so raw and honest with her poems. Milk and Honey was a very powerful read without any shame and it touched topics that people tend to ignore.
ReplyDeleteI have always wanted to read this book! I have always seen a lot of my friends reading this book and it has always been recommended to me. However, the only problem I think I would have is that it is all poetry and it would be hard to follow the story that the author is trying to explain to the reader. Did you ever find yourself unsure about what the author is trying to explain? Or was it simpler than any other normal book?
ReplyDeleteI did find myself having a little trouble trying to interpret what the author is trying to say. It's a little harder then normal books.
DeleteI have read a couple poems from this author including milk and honey and it was always interesting. its nice how a couple words have a deep meaning to them. sometimes I was unable to understand some of the poems, did you have any occurrences like that?
ReplyDeleteI did have some trouble understanding some of the poems as well.
DeleteWhen I read this book, I didn't see the same views of the chapters as you did. In chapter 2, I felt like she was starting to love herself and who she could become. The "he" she always referred to, reminded me of how people see their self-conscience as a different gender sometimes. As for the third chapter, I felt like actually broke. This was her cry for help; so we do somewhat agree on that part. My favorite chapter was the first one due to the fact that her pain leaped off the pages. What was yours?
ReplyDeleteMy favorite chapter was the second because that's when she loved herself and she was happy.
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