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Dear Girl (2020) 13 kappaletta

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i really wanted to like this. thematically, i was definitely on board and was looking forward to what she had to say. (feminism, empowering women, sexism, oppression; these are all topics i want to read about and discuss nearly endlessly.) unfortunately, i found it mostly to be feminism 101 at best, nothing profound or new, and mostly not put forth in a different or compelling way. she did have some phrases that i liked, but generally it was trite and pedestrian. (she actually said "Peer into the depths of your soul" for example.) i also didn't much care for what felt like the forced rhyming in most of it.

at times, mostly in the middle of the book, i thought that she was a passionate and good reader, but generally i actually didn't think she was much of a reader, and it might have been helped by someone else doing the narrating. and i *really* didn't like the pairing of music with the reading. i thought that was distracting and annoying and didn't match the words at all.

some of her words that i did like:

"You were not born an ember.
You were born the flame."

"There is no such thing as weak women.
Only women who have not stepped into their power."

"...when you are told to quiet down
I hope you grow louder.
You are an entire symphony
That needs no applause."

"My vulnerability is not my weakness.
It is my superpower.
I wear it like a cape and watch mouths gape
At the sight of a warrior wearing
Wounds like crown jewels."
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overlycriticalelisa | 4 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Apr 16, 2022 |
So often women are told not to share their experiences and made guilty for doing so. Mayrock attempts to break this pattern through her poetry. Unfortunately, I couldn't get into her style of poetry. It is very much in the vein of Rupi Kaur cliches of comparing women to a phoenix, a flame, a warrior, a constellation, etc.
It just didn't feel like anything that hadn't already been done before. It was all a bit cringe if I'm being honest. #deargirl#netgalley
 
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roseandisabella | 4 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 18, 2022 |
Name: Dear Girl
Poetess: Aija Mayrock
Genre: Poetry, Feminism
Rating: 5/5
Review:
This is a collection of beautiful poetries which deals with the silence, truth, resilience shared by all womankind. It touches the string of thoughts which connects us all.
Empowering, Exciting and Enticing poetries which will touch you to the innermost core. One of the most feminist poetry book I have ever read. Her words are simple yet so breathtakingly truthful. She speaks for all of us, she touches those topics which we have considered norms.
Her poems are truly "a love letters for all woman out there" as she said. This book is amazing and thought-provoking. I liked the whole theme of this book. I really appreciate the poetess for her message to all womankind. We are all sisters, after all.
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Fatima_Anwar | 4 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Nov 30, 2020 |
Dear Girl is a collection of poetry in the popular Rupi Kaur free verse style meant to empower women. While I found myself agreeing with many of the words in this collection of poetry, I found that it didn't really say anything new. With very pithy, instagram-worthy quotes, many of the poems were simply too generic for my taste. It doesn't lack cliche in the slightest, with every line containing some sort of second wave feminist motivational saying that I probably saw on Tumblr in 2014. I will say, however, that the audiobook elevated this book in my opinion. The narrator's sharp, taut reading style made for a very engaging listen.

A copy of this book was obtained through netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
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Ellen_Andrews | 4 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Aug 31, 2020 |

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