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

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Similar to the witch doesn't burn in this one by amanda lovelace and You'll Come Back to Yourself by Michaela Angemeer, this collection of short powerful poems from Instagram and TikTok poet Trista Mateer will have you believing in the possibility of your own healing. Its theme is not specific but mainly focuses on love, letting-go-of-past, be-your-self, self-healing etc. 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. I like that it personifies how we can all be something beautiful on our own, yet still connect to create something much larger and more beautiful as a whole.

She currently lives in a house by the sea in New Jersey; and when she's not wrangling her cat, Honeybun, she stares out at the water and waits for the words to wash ashore. Literature degree, but I’ve come to realise that I don’t hate poetry, it’s just a matter of finding the words that sing to you. This collection is based around mythology and is also about strength, empowerment and self-appreciation. In Troy they fought over Helen like children but Achilles mourned Patroclus the way a soul mourns a body.The passages from Aphrodite’s perspective were particularly compelling and there were many that I have saved and shared with friends. And thank you: for dog-earing pages, for highlighting your favourite lines, for sharing your stories with me, for sharing your time with me. This book is perfect for anyone struggling with their own healing process and anyone trying to find meaning to their own life. The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the fifth volume of the Heartstopper series. I think it’s because this book opens our eyes to how/why Aphrodite and Ares fell in love—he celebrated the parts of her that lesser men wanted to rip away.

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. For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms - but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation. You will find grace between these pages and a little sadness, too - the kind that makes flowers grow in all of the places you need them most.Sometimes the art is the poetry itself, with each page/canvas being a line that flows into the next. But this new wave of poets and their poetry seem to read more like diary entries or Instagram posts than poems. 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. I opened the book to “start” reading, and ended up reading the entire thing without putting it down.

She says there’s some dispute over the reason for our creation but that it definitely wasn’t to be gilded objects.

Each section (obviously) has its own themes and tones, and speaks to the reader on a different level. Aphrodite Made Me Do It is a feminist poetry collection about love, loss, insecurity, pain, and empowerment. There was something so unique about this collection and I love that the author included her illustrations and art work. No tenía idea de que iba el libro pero es hermoso, lo recomiendo mucho y se ha convertido en uno de mis libros favoritos. I recently finished Dreams of Gods and Monsters, the final book in the Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy.