Aphrodite Made Me Do It: Volume 1 (Myth and Magick)

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Reading as a glimpse into the private thoughts within a self-care, healing journal, Aphrodite Made Me Do It is a survivors story that speaks to women everywhere, in fierce and loving tones. I think maybe I lack the background knowledge of the scenarios which were at the times of classical poets or I also lack the classical vocab too. And thank you: for dog-earing pages, for highlighting your favourite lines, for sharing your stories with me, for sharing your time with me. Trista Mateer erupts with spells of thunder and then gifts you with a careful platter of language to cast them yourself. In this way some of her work was perhaps lessened by her execution when it could have had a much greater impact if delivered in another way.

The poetry itself - especially the parts about rewriting Aphrodite's story far away from the male gaze - was intriguing, but it didn't capture me for long. With an enemies-to-lovers romance between a witch and a witch hunter, this YA fantasy series is highly addictive. This series is beautiful and devastating, somehow making me laugh and cry, tugging at my heartstrings in the best way.

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The million copy bestseller, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and. I think it's great that so many people can turn to writing to express their thoughts, heal from their pasts, and fight for social justices.Aphrodite Made Me Do It is a collection of prose-poetry, framed as a conversation between the author and Aphrodite, goddess of love, sex and beauty. Unfortunately they do not have this one as a physical copy, so I'll just have to wait until I can get my own— which I will totally be doing because this book is definitely worth rereading again and again. I appreciated how the different themes were dealt with and also the artwork that was included among the poems. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I do not even know what compelled me to give this collection a chance, but I am thrilled that I did.