break your glass slippers by Amanda Lovelace
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Web ID: 18023712An empowering but whimsical collection!
Break Your Glass Slippers by Amanda Lovelace is an empowering and inspiring collection of poems based around the fairytale, Cinderella. There was lots of relatable content in this one (for me). I absolutely loved the starry night sky images and the illustrations mixed in with the poems.
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Great read
You could read this book in 30 minutes but it so worth it. Very very goood!
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Reminder of a woman's worth
Trigger warnings: child abuse, toxic friendships, toxic relationships, sexual harassment, eating disorders, suicide, and trauma Amanda Lovelace does a fabulous job narrating her own audiobook for <i>break your glass slippers</i>, the first of the “you are your own fairy tale” trilogy. As I listened to Lovelace’s poems, I kept thinking of the amazing women in my life I wanted to hear the same messages Lovelace was telling to the woman in her poems. I recommend this book to all women, especially those who need to be reminded of their worth. Many thanks to NetGalley for providing me an audio ARC of this book.
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A transporting journey of self-acceptance
Lovelace has done it again! For those of you who haven’t read her amazing Women are Some Kind of Magic and The Things that H(a)unt series, go check them out now and then come back to Break Your Glass Slippers for an even greater time. In this book, Lovelace echoes her previous themes of recovering from trauma and past hurts, but this time with an even greater emphasis on self-acceptance. While her previous works have often compared the main protagonist as warrior fighting against those who seek to hurt her (and does it well) Cinderella takes a softer tone, focusing on the internal battle of caring for yourself. I normally don’t wade into the debate on e-books versus hard copies, but make sure you get a physical paper version of this book. The design and illustrations are too perfectly laid out to take the risk of losing anything in translation. As many of us wade through journeys of self-reflection and self-discovery during this pandemic, this book could not have come at a better time. This is a quick read, but it is an emotional one, so you will thank yourself for taking it to a quiet place to allow yourself time to sit and meditate on it.
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Cinderella is dead! Long live Cinderella.
It feels reductive to say Amanda Lovelace's latest is a modern retelling of Cinderella, because that's not quite what this is. Instead, Cinderella lives!—in small glimpses, discursive fragments. What's most surprising is discovering that those fragments are mirrors. I didn't expect to be seen—read, really—with such discernment and tenderness. I didn't realise it was something I sought when I opened the work. This brings to mind my favourite definition of a myth: It's a story about something that may or may not have happened, but is most certainly happening all the time. And there is plenty of space between the poems—for glass slippers, or for stars—so that the words decant, settling onto your skin like spells. You can feel the moonlight. It isn't just Cinderella who sharpens into focus. Between Lovelace's fingers, the trope of evil stepsisters becomes startlingly recognisable, a cultural tragedy instead of a dusty allegory: “There are sisters who see each other as lifelong rivals / when they should be seeing each other as lifelong allies.” And what joy the fairy godmother was! She's the wise woman you meet at work, or the aunt other aunts avoid. Maybe she’s actually your mother or godmother. In any event, she is your ally in the forest: She will teach you consent, female friendship, and love. Yet the wisdom of this tome lies in the way Lovelace so delicately and powerfully demonstrates it is one thing to hear such advice, and another to finally feel it in your bones, letting it ripple under your skin and transform you, like rags becoming a ballgown. I'll conclude with a piece of wisdom directly from the source: We are our own *** fairy tale.
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Words that I didn’t know I needed in my life
This book left me at a loss for words. At first when I saw the list of trigger warnings I didn’t think much of it, but as I read on and had very vivid memories brought back I understood. I never thought poetry could help me heal in ways I didn’t even know I needed.
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Great gift for Millennial Women
I’ll read anything Amanda Lovelace writes. She’s so great. break your glass slippers didn’t hit me right in my heart center the way that the witch doesn’t burn in this one did, but there are still some really beautiful, hard-hitting poems in this collection. Anger is easier for me to connect with anyway, so the theme of saving yourself that threads through this one felt less impactful. I am positive, however, that there are women out there who need this book of poems, and they need the exact tone and style of them. If you haven’t read anything by lovelace yet, what are you waiting for? And once you start, you won’t want to stop. This book of poems is also a really excellent gift idea for any woman, but might be most impactful for millenials and younger (we who were raised on stories of men saving the girl over and over and over and f-ing over again).
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loved it!
I've always loved Amanda Lovelace's poetry. I don't know what it is about it, but I just...enjoy it. break your glass slippers wasn't my favorite out of Lovelace's poetry but I still really really liked it. I could feel all the emotions and the hurt. It was much needed.
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