Getting over You

by Leslie B.

getting over you
was the strangest feeling
i ever had to experience
it was like
my mind knew the answers
but emotionally,
i needed to grieve
before i could be okay
again

Genres: Poetry, Love, Romance, Self Help, Romantic, Nonfiction, Emotional

138 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 14, 2022

Reviews

[youssra · Rating 4 out of 5]

– 4 stars ★

Just like is said in my pre review, this was my first ever poetry book and I absolutely loved it. The writing is so beautifully done and I literally got carried away by the emotions of the poems. I don´t know who hurt this girl but they fucked her up real bad. I truly hope that she's okay now. Something I ́m really happy about is that I wasn't in the phase of heartbreak or love sickness when I read this. This is a really painful book especially when you go through the same feeling as the poems itself. Of course there were some poems that I could relate to as just a normal girl with feelings.

I´m really excited to read another poetry book by this author any time soon. I actually already got another one of her beautiful works🤭 Oh and i just saw in the description that it was published on my Bday lol

Here are some of my favorite poems:

if i believed in myself
as much as i did in you
maybe it wouldn´t
hurt so much

the fact that
it's not killing you
like it's killing me
says everything

no one else made sens
until you
and now-
nothing else makes sense
after you

the way someone leaves
tells you everything
you need to know
about them

if it was meant to be
we would still be
together

i wish
i could put the love
i give to other people
to myself

You were okay before
you will be okay after

I notice life without you
is still beautiful

————

Pre review This will be the first time ever that I read a poetry and i´m so excited. I chose this one because of a quote i saw in tiktok that went like:

¨I saw this quote,
hurt people hurt people
and I think about how you hurt me
and I hurt myself¨

It played with a song called ¨let it go¨ by james bay and it made me fall in love with this quote.
This quote made me want to read this so thats what i´m about to do. such a long pre review, sorryy

[elea ☆ · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Everytime someone breaks your heart, it comes back a little stronger."

[mel ✧˚ · . · Rating 5 out of 5]

how many times
can you say goodbye
to a person
before you finally
leave them ?

[Johan Jimenez · Rating 2 out of 5]

We need to gatekeep poetry

[Jnc · Rating 5 out of 5]

I just saw the reel and read the line of this book ... I think this book know what i think and feel ..

[Willow · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing

I just left my boyfriend of 9 months, and I’m absolutely destroyed. He cheated on me while I was upstairs in his bed, this book stopped my tears. This book, while it didn’t take away the pain, made the pain a little more bearable.

[arpit · Rating 1 out of 5]

this reads like a teenage girl was going through her first crush-situationship-breakup phase and published a book consisting of her angsty thoughts from her notes app and called it poetry

[Narimane · Rating 1 out of 5]

I don't like this app

[Kaustab Choudhury · Rating 1 out of 5]

Unfortunately, grammatically incorrect malformed sentences lacking any measure of substance, style, or imagery cannot be called poetry. I have often felt previously when reading some book that the book I was holding in my hands deserved no star whatsoever, but this feels infinitely worse than all of those. At least the author of those books had some idea that they thought through before deciding to publish. At least those books weren't grammatically incorrect (and if they were, unlike here, it was for good reason). At least those books were doing something. I daresay that the average high schooler's journal (which, mind you, the high schooler would never think of publishing, and for good reason) would stand as a much better candidate for poetry than this.

If poetry is art, this is the exact opposite of poetry (I suppose it was a crime for me to expect anything to the contrary from what's called "instapoetry"). I have never felt such a strong disconnect between the voice of humanity and what I was reading. For those who want a more humanistic taste of what heartbreak can truly feel like, I recommend one poem: "Tonight I Can Write (The Saddest Lines)" by Pablo Neruda. Read that poem, and then come back to this collection. I dare you to find one poem here that can hold a candle to even a single word of Neruda's poetry.

Thank heavens that they don't assign kids instapoetry in school these days.

[pəˈteɪtəʊ · Rating 5 out of 5]

It took me a long time
to decide if it was time to leave
and when I left
i stayed gone

[˗ˏˋ mckenna ˎˊ˗ · Rating 4 out of 5]

i find a bit a comfort in knowing that somebody feels the same way that i do and they managed to move on. maybe one day i will be able to move on

update: I MOVED ON!!!!!!!!

[Alexandra · Rating 1 out of 5]

Finished in one sitting 😍😍😍😍 because if I closed the book, I was never going to open it again.

[archika · Rating 3 out of 5]

if you want to read something while going through a heartbreak yes this is perfect but if you're going for poetry reasons please do not

[Rawan · Rating 1 out of 5]

Who had the audacity to call this a poem? This is anything but a poem.
In fact, it’s barely anything at all.
I’m pretty sure it’s written by a 14-year-old girl pouring her heart out over a breakup.

I’ll admit, I was drawn to this after seeing a couple of Instagram videos and read two pages (which were just two sentences) and thought, “Maybe this is worth a shot.”

But even if I forget the whole “poem” claim and treat it as a collection of quotes to flip through every now and then, there are only a handful of lines that hold any weight—and I’m pretty sure those are the ones I’d already seen online.

- when we first met i had no idea that i would become so attached.

- are you in love with the person or are you in love with the feeling?

[Millie Cullen · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 ⭐️

[daniella · Rating 1 out of 5]

let's just say there's room for everybody - gia gunn

[Kasia Janica]

idk

[Jeel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Getting over You
Like if you ever had a heart broke that ruin you so much kind of destroyed you than this book is for you my friend. It not very typical book. It is just simply defined journey of heart break, pain, grief, and healing. Good and Simple.

[anja · Rating 4 out of 5]

who hurt this girl i'm sobbing

[Natalia · Rating 4 out of 5]

in the end,
you were just another story for me to tell

[Victoria Larson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m so glad I didn’t read this book before I experienced my first breakup… I needed this on so many level. Cried from like page 20 and throughout the rest of the book. Needed this big time

[Val :)]

felt like a hug, everything I was feeling is on these pages ❤️‍🩹

[Katica · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was so beautiful and heartwarming but also painful in some ways

[Isidora · Rating 3 out of 5]

i push people away and hope they come back
- why do i keep breaking my own heart



-what do you do when your problem and your solution is the same person?

[Preethi · Rating 5 out of 5]

It’s a quick read. Takes only like 30mins. But each page will hit you differently, especially if you are going through a break up. There are some facts in there that you already know. Reading it all during a rough time might help you feel stronger and ease the pain.

[Nella (nk.bookmarks) · Rating 4 out of 5]

the fact that it's not killing you like it's killing me says everything

[a.]

terrible writing

[Dishaareads · Rating 5 out of 5]

This Poetry was like a movie - so good that it felt like it bandaged my broken heart. Almost every poem resonated deeply with me, and I felt like keeping them close to my heart. Especially the last few pages left me in tears, I want to cherish them forever.

1."There is beauty in loving someone even if they don't love you back the same way and for that i regret nothing"
2."Every time someone breaks your heart it comes back a little stronger."
3."It took a long time to decide if it was time to leave and when i left, i stayed gone."
4."Until you learn to let go it will always be haunting."
5."if you can survive this you can survive anything."
6."In letting go i found peace and that is what i will hold onto."
7. "I notice life without you is still beautiful"
8."To the person i was 6 months ago: thank you for not giving up"
9."It's gonna hurt for a while and then it will be alright"
10."In the end you were just another story for me to tell"

[Abeey Morsy · Rating 2 out of 5]

From time to time i go for reading short poems as a break after reading a heavy book so i started this book * getting over you *.
The auther is talking about breakup and kept repeating the yelling and grieving after her x lover, and for sure I'll never make a joke about a heartbroken person but at some point while reading i just wanted to tell her in Arabic
" ما غار في ستين داهية" 😂
Then she start talking about the healing and getting over him and it ends with it.
2.5 stars only.

[bookedbylana · Rating 5 out of 5]

"everytime someone breaks your heart, it comes back a little stronger."

how much i loved this book? just know that borrowed this from my friend and now I am going to order one for myself to annotate l, that's how much I loved it.
the way there was this heavy feeling in my heart the whole time i read this book, i will forever cherish this book.🫶🏻
some poetries speak to me way more than others but each one of them made me feel something.
you all need to read this book like right now please.