Book Review : Milk and Honey

Book Title : Milk and Honey

Author : Rupi Kaur

ISBN : 9781449474256

Publisher : Andrews McMeel

Genre : Poetry

Publication : 2014

Pages : 204

Binding : Paperback

About The Book:

milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. It is about the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. It is split into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose, deals with a different pain, heals a different heartache. milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.

Rating: 3.5 ☆'s

Review:

Okay, hold on

Give me a moment

As I catch my breath

And gather my thoughts

For this book

Has left me

In a tornado of 

Myriad of emotions

No, I wasn't taking a dig at the author - but I definitely am trying to make a point here. Let me begin from beginning...

Truthfully, I loved the book and on the onset of this review I was just about ready to give this book a five star rating - but then, all the things that nagged me, came back to me.

I am no writer / poet, but at times, I also do try to write poems - you would have seen my feeble attempt at that in preceding posts. Anyway, when I "try" to write poetry, I tend to work hard on rhyming to make it sound poetic - but then I came across this book, of the genre - poetry, and I thought, what the heck am I doing if this is poetry?

No, this ain't a poetry, hitting an "enter" after every few words won't make it poetry. If the book had come across as a collection of blog posts or essays, say something like random musings of a wandering soul - my I would have rated it at six stars out of five...

Yes, this book is a beautiful collection of thoughts, experiences and everything else that makes Rupi Kaur, Rupi Kaur. Every word resonates with you, each sentence stirs your soul - every emotion comes crashing down - filling your heart, your mind and your body with radiance.

These "thoughts" are pure, raw and beautiful. They fill you up. They make you want to shout and then cry out in pain, till the pain is washed out and a calm fills you up and then suddenly, it makes you want to laugh your heart out. And then, in the end, it makes you get up, hug yourself and love yourself.

This book heals you - in ways unknown to you. And that, my dear friend, is why, each one of you, every girl out there, should read this book and give Rupi a chance to help you see yourself in a newer light.

Pick it up, and immerse yourself in this intimidating and yet, strangely soothing book that will create a havoc inside you and drown you in torrential downpour of disturbing reality.