Spoiler alert: I didn't love this as much as everyone did so there's that. I love the message, I really do. I just realized that this is not the poetry style I gravitate to. No, that's wrong, I kind of gravitate to it because it's everywhere? But it's not what makes this heart sing and/or curl up in a ball.

Title: Milk and Honey

Author: Rupi Kaur

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Date of Publication: October 6, 2015

The book is divided 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.

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[redacted] + Small Ghost by Trista Mateer

Today, I'm gonna post hopefully short word vomits on two of Trista Mateer's poetry collections. I've been finding it hard to read fiction recently so I've been reading poetry collections, short story anthologies, and essay collections. And I've been finding it hard to review anything at all so please go easy on me.

Title: [redacted]

Author: Trista Mateer

Date of Publication: February 18, 2017

Taking National Poetry Month’s poem-a-day challenge one step further, for her fourth collection, Trista Mateer has not only compiled a chapbook of her 2016 ‘30 for 30’ poems, but she has also chosen to include nearly everything else written in the month of April. This comes in the form of handwritten notes and poetry fragments, iPhone note poetry, tweets, Craigslist ads, and more. This mix of poetry and prose spans a single month and covers topics such as heartbreak, gender, sexuality, and forgiveness.

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Stacking the Shelves (66)

Forgive my absence. January to April book mail / book haul!

For Review

(ARC) Spindle Fire by Lexa Hillyer
(ARC) Ronit & Jamil by Pamela L. Laskin
(ARC) Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
(ARC) Fish Girl by Donna Jo Napoli and David Wiesner
(ARC) The Secret Science of Magic by Melissa Keil
(ARC) Liberty: The Spy Who (Kind of) Liked Me by Andrea Portes
(ARC) Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy
(ARC) Everything All at Once by Katrina Leno
The Stinky Street Stories by Alex Ratt and Jules Faber
(ARC) Who Let the Gods Out? by Maz Evans
(ARC) Hear the Wolves by Victoria Scott
(ARC) Stealing Our Way Home by Cecilia Galante

Thank you to HarperCollins International, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Kids, Hardie Grant Egmont, Pan Macmillan Australia, and Scholastic Philippines for all the review copies!