You'll Come Back to Yourself

Amira Banaulikar

Rating: really liked it
"you deserve a call me anytime love, a pick me up from the airport love, a love note on napkins kind of love, a chicken noodle soup for sore throats kind of love, a back rub before bed kind of love, a reminder to get up ten minutes earlier because it snowed and you're going to have to clean off your car kind of love, a clean your car for you kind of love, a bring you cheesecake when you're sad kind of love, a listening love, a love that takes care of you, a love that sees your messy hair, your morning breath, your spiralling mind, your no sleep crankiness, a love that loves you more for it. You deserve a requited love, a love that lasts."
I bought this book because of the relationship/situationship/talking stage - whatever you want to call it, was ending. Did it end before? Who knows. Anyways, i saw this page on tiktok and immediately started sobbing.

"Can you let go of someone without forgetting how they made you feel?"
I read this in one sitting. I got the journal version and filled bits and cried and cried and cried. I read some poems multiple times. I wrote them down. I stuck post it's on my wall and I'm reminding myself all the time - remember this. "Why do we keep loving people who can't love us back?"

Victory

Rating: really liked it
A book I read when I am going through heartbreak. When someone hurts you so much you feel like you won't recover from it. A pain that makes it so hard for you to breathe. The pain where you can't eat or sleep for weeks/ months. When after a whole year you find yourself stuck on that one person and the pain comes back over and over again like it did the day they left. When you go through days where you're doing perfectly fine and days where everything reminds you of them and you find it hard to get out of bed. And a book you also find yourself crying to when you finally move on completely. A book I go to when I need to remind myself that the most important love in my life is my own self love. My tears have dried in the pages of this book. It's interesting how many people can break your heart in different ways, but make you feel the same pain that writers are able to write about it and make you feel less alone. I feel this book helps you understand how you're feeling and allows you to cry to it when the wound is fresh or when you've been picking at the wound even when you thought you healed. However, this book also helps remind you of your self worth and that even though it may seem like you'll ever move on or recover from that pain, you'll come back to yourself.

Jessi ❤️ H. Vojsk [if villain, why hot?]

Rating: really liked it
maybe i like boys
with broad shoulders
and thick necks
maybe i like girls
with long eyelashes
and upturned noses
but mostly
maybe i just like people
with warm hands
loud laughs
and good hearts

Loved a few of them. 🤍

Fleur

Rating: really liked it
3.5 stars from me. Another book I’d categorise as “Instagram-poetry”, but certainly better, in my opinion, than others I’ve read. Contemporary, relatable poems—many of which worth reading twice or three times in a row at different paces. A little dragging at times; I would’ve liked a some more variety, but all in all worth a read for the heartbroken. Especially the ones in the in-between of holding on and letting go.

Punctuation? We don’t know her.

Julia Deptuła

Rating: really liked it
i will start off by saying that i dont think im the intended audience for this book. but that being said - meh. it felt really lazy and just tumblr 2014. i like 2 poems (i think) and thats only because i was going through a heartbreak.

Shea ☾⚂

Rating: really liked it
Some of the poems were so descriptive and on those ones I really liked her writing style

Insa

Rating: really liked it
it wasn‘t badly written, I just found it kind of boring

Mickael

Rating: really liked it
Except 4 or 5 poems which are kinda good the rest feels more like Insta-poetry or sentences cut as poems. It’s kinda meh.

Kristen

Rating: really liked it
When I was in 7th grade, my boyfriend broke up with me and I wrote a 5-page (handwritten, of course) treatise on love and heartache. My friends demanded copies as they, too, had suffered heartbreak.

This poetry collection feels a little like that.

It's a little cheesy, a little dramatic, and--like when I read Rupi Kaur--I still can't make myself enjoy the no-capital-letters-no-punctuation poetry trend.

Now, I'm a 40-year-old woman who hasn't experienced heartache in a long time, so my opinion here really is skewed. I can see teens and young people relating deeply to many of the poems, and I can see how people experiencing a breakup could be comforted.

My overly-emotional middle schoolers are going to LOVE it.

Emma

Rating: really liked it
There were some good quotes but they were all pretty cliche. I just don’t think I am a big fan of poetry

niamh braithwaite

Rating: really liked it
ok enough poetry for tonight my heart is breaking. this was okay i skimmed through some of them cos it was slightly boring but i related to it at times. i see why a lot of people would like it though but just personally it didn’t majorly speak to me.

“there is strength within vulnerability.”
“i am the only one who can complete myself.”

Jenny Gutierrez

Rating: really liked it
It’s like sitting down at a cafe with your sorority sister explaining how she found herself again after a breakup with a guy that ain’t shit. ❤️

Antonio

Rating: really liked it
This book surprised me.

Today I figured out that I do not like modern/contemporary poetry, and they feel shallow, generic, repetitive and boring to me. But this book was by far better than the others.

It is still Instagram, Tumblr and Pinterest Quote like, but way less edgy fake deep teen than the others.

And now I feel less bad about rating low since there are better modern poetry books out there, and I don't feel bad because the very personal poems just are in everyone's work. (yikes)

Amy

Rating: really liked it
The title is what first drew me to Michaela Angemeer's book. I found it deeply relatable and moving. Most of the poems reflected that sentiment in my opinion. I also really liked that the book essentially follows the premise of its title, starting at the peak of heartbreak and moving through the experience, coming back to oneself bit by bit.

However, the reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because I felt like some of the poems fell a bit flat. They felt too obvious at times, or not particularly poignant. Also, I found some to be confusing, and didn't understand how the metaphors fit with the meaning of the poem. I'd still recommend it to anyone going through heartbreak though, it's an excellent breakup poetry book.

Jenni Sauer

Rating: really liked it
I have mixed feelings about this one. I struggle to rate poetry, because it's so deeply personal, but also, a lot of this one was the author struggling through the pain of unrequited love for a wholly unworthy guy. And I've been there, so I am not one to judge, but I guess I expected a book called "You'll Come Back to Yourself" to be more about the healing and less about the breaking. I wanted more hope and healing among the heartbreak

However it was a lovely volume of poetry overall 💕