Milk and Honey

This book is simple in form but powerful in emotion. Rupi Kaur writes in a way that feels deeply personal, and every poem touches on something real, love, pain, healing, and growth. It’s one of those books you can open to any page and find something that speaks to you. The short poems make it an easy read, but the meaning behind them stays with you. It’s the kind of book that feels like a quiet conversation with someone who understands. Tip: read a few pages at a time and take moments to reflect, it hits harder when you give each poem space to sink in.

I really loved this book. It’s simple, yet every poem feels raw and genuine. Some lines hit me deeply and made me reflect on love, pain, and healing. It’s the kind of book you read slowly and let it sink in.

I'm very late to the Rupi Kaur fan club, but I am here to stay! Kaur's poetry is raw and fresh, and it yanked me into its world on the first page. Milk and Honey is broken into four sections of life and love, and the reader travels through heartbreak to loving to living. The first section, hurting, explains how love and pain aren't always separate, and how not knowing how to separate them is what causes skewed perspectives of love beginning in childhood. The unfiltered voice looks at how parents can shape us in the worst ways before we ever see the right ways. The poem that stayed with me is that alcoholic parents don't exist, only parents who couldn't stay sober long enough, and the truth hit me like a brick wall. It's a perspective that needs to be pushed more because it's the only true one. Favorite hurting poems: pages 34 and 39. The second section is called loving, and it shows the first step after hurting, where we find passion and fireworks in our first relationship and think we've found everything we've missed. However, it's usually the calm before the storm. The passionate love tends to involve fighting and fiery make-up sessions, and often, we mistake that for forever love when really it's just a better love than anything else we've been shown, but it's still not a good love. Favorite loving poems: pages 76-77. The third section, breaking, is about realizing you can feel both love for someone and betrayal and it's accepting that both are valid. It's forgiving yourself for having conflicting emotions because those who love us can hurt us. Breaking teaches you what real love is so you know how to recognize it from others and in yourself. Favorite breaking poems: pages 90, 95, 104, 106, and 125. The final section is called healing and it's about balance and boundaries, knowing how much of yourself to give to others only after first giving to yourself. Healing is realizing your worth as a person and taking up space. Healing is knowing you are whole because you exist. Favorite healing poems: pages 154, 159, 165, 178, and 185. The sections flow effortlessly and Kaur's writing is unrelenting and dives into you like a tidal wave. Her writing is unfiltered and a breath of fresh air. I can't wait to read her other collections.

Student review: Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur is a story about a girl and what she goes through as she grows up; Rupi has more bad than good happen in her life as she grew up. It's a fiction book and a lot of her story is about boys and what she goes through to try and find love. She goes through more pain than anything else. I hate reading but every night I actually got really excited to read this book. Milk and Honey is a very good coming of age story because as she grows up she learns what's real and what's fake. Like she used to think that she loved a guy but when she started dating a guy who she actually loved she realized that she didn't actually love the last guy because she saw how real love was really supposed to be. This book has a lot of very inappropriate text with a lot of rape and sex; It's a good book for high schoolers and adults but no younger because she does get raped at one point in the book. At first I thought that this book was really confusing because in the book Rupi Kaur doesn't use any names so you have to keep track of everyone without names. But there's only one or two people she writes about at a time so that makes it a lot easier. If I ever met the author I would have a lot of questions to ask. Like why didn't she have the main character tell anyone that she was being raped? Or why didn't she give any of the characters names? And a lot more. If you are the kind of person who really likes a good book but doesn't have the time for a long book, Milk and Honey is a really good quick read. If you're just going out for a long car ride and you have nothing to do, unless you're the one driving, then buy this book and read it. It only took me a day and a half to read and I wish there were A LOT more books like it. I think that this book should be a book assigned to classes to read instead of a book that most people don't want to read. I think that students would enjoy reading this book a lot more than others that I’ve read in the past. This is a very unique book because of the way it's set up. There are a lot of amazing quotes and there's no other book that I’ve read. There are quotes like, “love is not cruel, we are cruel, love is not a game, we made a game out of love”. This is a very beautiful and amazing book that I think you should read.

Lately, I’ve been enjoying reading poetry so much! Luckily it’s also been keeping me on track with my Goodreads challenge, since they are so quick to read! Most poetry books are such amazing reads. The only reason I gave this one 4 stars was because it didn’t speak to me on a deeper level nor was it awe inducing. I did REALLY, REALLY enjoy this book though don’t get me wrong. This book has also been very popular lately. Everywhere you look it seems to be there, which is so awesome for the poetry genre! It needs more attention! This book is split into the hurting, the loving, the breaking, and the healing. So I want to share some of my favorite sections or poems from each part! The Hurting “the therapist places the doll in front of you it is the size of girls your uncles like touching point to where his hands were you point to the spot between its legs the one he fingered out of you like a confession” This is the first poem that broke my heart in this collection! “every time you tell your daughter you yell at her out of love you teach her to confuse anger with kindness which seems like a good idea till she grows up to trust men who hurt her cause they look so much like you – to fathers with daughters“ “a daughter should not have to beg her father for a relationship” The truth in these poems is astounding! I just had to share it. The Loving “sometimes though love will hurt you but love will never mean to love will play no games cause love knows life has been hard enough already” That’s the only poem that meant anything to me in this section, which I find kind of sad since its the loving section of the book. The Breaking “dont mistake salt for sugar if he wants to be with you he will it’s that simple” “i didn’t leave because i stopped loving you i left because the longer i stayed the less i loved myself” “when you are broken and he has left you do not question whether you were enough the problem was you were so enough he was not able to carry it” “you treat them like they have a heart like yours but not everyone can be as soft and as tender you don’t see the person they are you see the person they have the potential to be you give and give till they pull everything out of you and leave you empty” GIRL, YAS! Yes, Yes, Yes. Go figure this section was the most relatable to me. I’m not surprised, but everything in the section was so true. Favorite section of the book. Hands down. This section is the reason I will recommend this book to people! The Healing “who tricked you into believing another person was meant to complete you when they most they can do is complement” Unfortunately that’s the only poem I highlighted in this section. This also doesn’t surprise me because I, myself, have not completely healed so how I am supposed to connect with anything in this section. Which has absolutely nothing to do with Rupi or her book. However, the one thing I have learned in my healing process is that my partner shouldn’t complete me, but complement me instead! This really is a great read and I really enjoyed reading it. I’m sure so many people can relate and connect with at least one section in this collection!

I feel in love with this boom immediately

This book was a great read

i love the book. i had ordered it to complete my collection of rupi kaur.