in 2019 I made what could be one of the worst financial decisions of my life I
purchased a bunch of youtuber books and in 2020 I am willing to put every last
clinging brain cell left on the line and I'm gonna read them
hi it's Divya G what does the G stand for?r the G stands for Gabby Hanna former actress singer youtube
personality songwriter and now author written and illustrated.... sh* she's an
artist too she can put that in her linkd in bio. here we
have my curry stained copy of adult..ol..e.scene. is this a cash grab or I argue a
profound expression? a kindled reaction against the gatekeeping guardians of the
galaxy wait- Bob guardians of the galaxy? seriously
are you taking the piss? against the gatekeeping guardians of literature is this book a
violent redefinition a big bang birth of proportions of a new era of poetry? has
Gabby Hanna shooketh? this is quote unquote as per the blurb
and exhilarating debut collection. gabbie explores what it means to feel
like a kid and an adult. she cuts to the profound and detonates wickedly funny jokes
you'll turn to the last page because you get her
and return to the first page because she gets you
so it's about the exploration of what it feels
like to be a kid and an adult all that once or as I like to call it the big
baby the aknowledgements here start off on a good note you know like thank
you for putting me in touch with a great publishing team with a glowing
recommendation real friends liee for each other so you know lovely lovely
even the author is telling you that it's sh* she let me open page one and it's clear from
the get-go that the Gabby Hanna is a victim
Gabby Hanna too is a sufferer from the broken caps-lock oh sh* it's
not working syndrome pray for Gabby and all the other poets fix their broken
capslock.
sleep.
sleep is a poem that on first glance seems to convey you know
the innocence of childhood just look at her use a very simple language you know
her her rhyming couplets the use of exclamation points that hint at an
excited little little child but if you look at the last two lines 'I wake up
to eat or pee, otherwise I'd sleep for eternity' hints
at something darker. sleeping for eternity or
eternal sleep? a hamlet once famously said
To die? To sleep. To sleep, perchance to dream'
An expression on his wanderings of death Hamlet's in the
midst of his moral anguish ponders at how wonderful it would be to just drift
into an unconcious state
and here, Hanna like Hamlet-
.... Bob really? Hamlet -
too mirrors
this metaphor of death hinting at the early stages of her own moral anguish
hidden behind the mask of playful language is youth but a dream? Truly a
poet. throughout the collection she many times repeatedly uses this mask hiding
behind the language of adolescents to reveal a darker truth about the qualms
of mankind, the exhaustion of her mind and the dejected state of oneself she
truly is talking about the man in the mirror
hee hee
she does this in recess most prominently where she
uses a nursery rhyme jarringly - switching the mood and atmosphere of the
poem from playful to painful pandering on a loveless childhood perhaps
commenting on the flippant switch.. flick flick.. of youth cut too short by the woes of
her own life. not only does Gabby Hanna reverberate the likes of Shakespeare she too
- echoes and draws inspiration from other equally great artists for example
milk and honey
bob?
milk and honey you comparing milk
and honey to shakespeare?
alright I'm not gatekeeper I'm not gatekeeper of literature I'm not
saying correct but most prominently we have the poem: relative. time is
relative beauty is relative family his relatives. I don't know about you
but uhhh... Einstein been real quiet ever since we
have not even depth our crusty ass toes into the very depths of this book
here because what's most impressive it's not it's not her nods to Shakespeare you
know her philosophical quandary or the fact that she was 20 when she
came up with a theory of relativity itself no it is her redefinition of the
very essence of poetry. often when I was reading this afternoon found myself
literally shocked. let's play a game called is this poetry or is this a
drunken Fiat 500 tweet that never should have left drafts?
I donated blood today. feels
good to finally be someone's type. when I was young my mom used to check if the
iron was hot by touching it and I don't know I just feel like there's a metaphor
in there somewhere. for 25 years I tell myself I couldn't do a single push-up
and now I can do four push-ups don't doubt yourself believe in yourself you
can do anything. I wear makeup cuz I have acne I have acne because I wear makeup
but I didn't think I was like when I like it the way that I like it but like
I like it
When i was younger girls asked 'does this make my butt look big' in like a concerned way and now girls ask does my butt look big in an excited way
so don't worry your butt will be trendy some day. ever notice that
the word synonym doesn't have a synonym? now that that's just incorrect I'm gonna
keep going if you eat an entire pizza by yourself
in the woods and no one's allowed to see it do the calories count is it 99
calories Sharon? and how many weight watchers point is that Sharon aren't you
meant to be in a diet? Naughty Sharon enough Hobnobs for you
Sharon. to call this a collection of poetry would be an injustice
to what? Bob? and injustice to what?poetry you know what I really love her use of
profanity and the poems when she says 'google it bitch' or when she says this is
a haiku bitch because it's either like an expression of her rage against the world
oh it's a revelation to us the readers for you know buying this and supporting
this that we in fact are the true bitches
she talks about her insecurities a lot you know about being a nobody the pressures to be
somebody in society the pressure to perform but I think it's most pertinent
in tweet filler where ah what? tweet? no i said poem. where she states that some of
these poems were written because inspiration struck others were written
because I had a deadline and needed to feel the pages can you guess which I
which? some would see this as laziness but not I! NO! Isay this is a shout
against against capitalist and the publishing industry forcing the
writers to produce trash in the names of sales and I say she is smart and she
knows what she is producing its protest this is a shining light a beacon against
the industry's holding authors are the tips of their knives for-profit entities
that produce waste in this beginning of a climate and ecological crisis a screw
you to words and making them string nice her insecurities bleed through the pages
her mental despair in the pursuit of happiness and relevancy and the
desperate needs to be wanted to be immortalized in society to mean
something but more so of all this book this book is a cry for help
and scene all right that's all in all to conclude
I give this book a 0.1 star rating out of five I not gonna lie I felt cheated
because about like two or three poems that had potential but then the rest of
it was just I call me questioning you know why why is this my first book of
2020 that I've read since like 2017 I did I honestly just felt like she was
taking the piss half the time but do I recommend this book to
literally anyone? I would say no I just feel like it takes the piss you know
like people are actually struggling to put anything out because they don't have
a platform to make it big and it's not her fault for having a platform it's not
her fault that I'm buying this and feeding her either but it just it just
takes the piss I just feel ripped off and I'm like I honestly think kudos to
Gabby Hanna for publishing this you know you use your platform you you got that
dough you got that money I'm sure there are some people who relate to this love
this that's fine illustrations nice I like the cover I just think it's peak
when the blurb is just like so much better written than literally any of the poems
please do answer the question is Gabby Hannah Shakespeare? is Gabby Hanna the
next Einstein? of all the poems that I mentioned or if you read this yourself
let me know what your least favorite poem is or your favorite poem is but I
just want to know what your least favorite is um for me personally I think
my least favorite poem 'I don't know you know' just taking the piss or or this one
'okay. okay. read' oh my god I'm vexed. do let me know if you'd like for me to you
know analyze some other books maybe jake paul or next so like the video if
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let you know I am divya g it's been nice to meet you I make videos about
books yeah be honest like she's the loosest
definition of a poet and I'm also the looses definition of a booktuber so
that's just how it goes I'll see you guys first video stay safe.