Procure The Princess Saves Herself In This One (Women Are Some Kind Of Magic, #1) Published By Amanda Lovelace Displayed In Manuscript
Hmm Let me start by saying if there was astar review this collection would have gotten it, Honestly feel like I've been robbed, and rarely do I have that feeling, Moral of the story, don't buy a book based on the title and Goodreads review alone, research into its content first.
Here's a list of reasons why I am doing you a favour if you don't buy this book:
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If you thought you were getting a modern Sexton or Carter, based on the idea of modernised, feminist fairytale retellings you are sorely mistaken.
Instead what you get is pages after pages of quite literally moaning, and the occasional one poorly written poetic line.
. I'm sick of young poets thinking the ability to put you emotions down on paper makes you a good writer, unless it's done poetically which in this collection it rarely is you are not writing poetry, you are writing a diary.
. Following on from the idea of writing a diary I want to stress to you, THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE GETTING, sorry for caps I'm still angry at theminutes of my life I spent reading this 'poetry' in hope I might get a few gems out of it, I didn't.
Writing about your life and it's depressing, teenage angst is fine when it's done creatively, This could have been knocked up by any GCSE student,
Now despite this very harsh review I do have one positive, The opening poem. Untitled, but linking into Harry Potter and the idea of survivors Lovelace's first poem was moving and enraptured every young, lonely teenage bookworms inner thoughts and feelings.
It made me remember how much I had relied of the Wizarding World to get through bad breakups and hateful friends.
But that was it, If I wanted to read a teenage girls diary I could dig out my embarrassing collections from the attic boxes and become depressed over by own preadolescent problems, I don't need/want to do it with other people's!
Sorry for spelling mistakes angry typing and the editing hasn't worked! scattering
words
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different
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poetry! The Princess Saves Herself in This One was a fairly emotional read for me.
This poetry collection is divided into four different parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, amp you, And there were a lot of parts that really hit home especially the princess, so much so that I had to put the collection down for a minute and think.
The Princess Saves Herself in This One explores life amp all of its love, loss, grief, healing, empowerment, amp inspirations.
And I loved and felt everything deeply,
Here are a few poems that made me both contemplate and feel:
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Overall, this collection harrowed and punctured my heart deeply.
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once upon
a time,
the princess
rose from the ashes
her dragon lovers
made of her
amp
crowned
herself
the
motherfucking
queen of
herself.
Amanda Lovelace is another poet whose work I've admired from afar for a while thanks to the internet, but I've never actually read her work in collected form until now.
Though this collection wasn't published until, I felt like it was an incredible throwback to the mid and lates, for what it's worth.
Does anyone else read Amanda's writing and hear MCR in the background Just me Anyways,
if he was
my cup of tea,
then you are
my cup of
coffee.
tea simply
isn't
enough
for me
sometimes,
but
coffee
can get me
through
anything.
I expected the side of Princess that covered grief, heartbreak, abuse, and healing, but I didn't expect the incredibly sweet love poetry that filled a substantial section of the book.
I took it as a surprisingly profound view into the fact that, in her lows, Amanda's writing is absolutely heartbreaking, but in her highs, her love soars.
I related to this thought much more strongly than I'd like to discuss here today, but let me just say that I saw a lot of myself in many of the words in these poems, and I will certainly be looking forward to her next collection.
Content warnings: all of them, Seriously, this book comes with a pagelong trigger warning sheet in the front, that ends with the same advice I would give you, too: "practice selfcare before, during, amp after reading".
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i didn't realize
that poetry could be achieved
by hitting the enter key amp
then breaking up a sentence
with
a
space
who knew that all this time
my english teachers were wrong
go to hell, robert frost
So this is going to be a tricky review to write, because opinions have really diverged on this book.
Looking through the reviews of THE PRINCESS SAVES HERSELF IN THIS ONE, you immediately see that some people adored this book and others found it deplorable.
Age seems to be the dividing factor this book is a hit with younger readers, and I think the generational gap has something to do with it.
The Tweetsized snippets of text remind me of the emo blogs that were so abundant on Xanga in, That probably betrays my age, though, People in the "know" are calling it "Tumblr poetry, " I can't vouch for that, though this fogeyinprocess doesn't have a Tumblr,
Anyway, Andrews McMeel is going to publish this book, and I'm sure the fact that the author won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Poetry has something to do with this book deal.
Andrews McMeel is a quirky publishing company that does a lot of novelty books, comics, cookbooks, and poetry, Since I've loved pretty much every book Andrews McMeel put out, I jumped when I saw this title appear on Netgalley.
The fact that this book won the GCAs did make me more interested in reading it, even though poetry really isn't my bag, baby, and when one of my favorite publishers acquired it, that was the final painted nail on the elegantly manicured grabby hands.
To my surprise I actually liked most of the "poems" in this volume, even if I can't really bring myself to call them that.
THE PRINCESS SAVES HERSELF IN THIS ONE is divided into four sections, Each one appears to address a different topic, and as far as I can tell, they are organized as such:
"the princess" is about how she grew up and came to be the person she is
"the damsel" is about suffering and how she almost lost sight of who she is
"the queen" is about healing and how she came to love who she is
"you" is directed towards the reader, and full of advice on what it means to be a human, and also a woman
There is a lot of suffering in this book, which is part of what makes it so raw.
It's hard to get mad at someone who was brave enough to put their words to paper and then put that paper out into the world.
We can mock how she chose to do it, but the fact of the matter is, she did
it.
Good for her. If writing this book helped her achieve cathartic release, as she claims at the end, then that is a good thing.
If reading this helps others gain comfort through their suffering, that is also a good thing, Some of the "poems" are a little sappy, but there are also some great insights in here as well about selfharm, death, grief, rape, empowerment, feminism, and body dysmorphia.
At the end of the day, your opinion is your own, I'm not condemning the people who didn't like this book, because poetry is such a sensitive and subjective thing that is so deeply personal, expecting poetry to be universally beloved by all is ridiculous.
Reading THE PRINCESS made me nostalgic about the blogs I kept as a high school student, which also got me through some angsty times.
If you ever subscribed to "emo" culture, had an angsty blog, or the whole "chicken soup for the " phenomenon, read THE PRINCESS SAVES HERSELF IN THIS ONE.
It'll warm your heart.
Thanks for the advanced reader copy Andrews McMeel/Netgalley!
to,stars. This is a deeply personal set of poetry that all tells a story, It was moving to read someone's story with a heart so open,
I found thesepoems meaningful to me:
You were sent down from the exactly the way you were supposed to be the way you would love, the way you would lust, amp the way you would find your wings amp no one should have been given the power to take that away from you.
The only thing required to be a woman is to identify as one,
She has four section and each poem tells a piece of a story for that theme, Amanda has been so brutally honest in her poetry, He has laid herself bare, I can only be in awe of that and see it for the gift it is, .