I apologize as I'm unable to review this book. It will not download properly to any device I have. And I have searched for other apps to download it onto. But it does not want to open up for any app.

Thank you to Netgalley, the publisher and Lovelace for this book. I've read everything that Lovelace has put out and have yet to be disappointed by any of it. I've never been a fan of poetry but Lovelace's work is what truly made me appreciate the genre. I recommend her books to anyone who comes into the library looking for contemporary poetry and will continue to do so!

I love love love amanda lovelace previous books and this one is also really good, like really really good !

I read it in one sitting but I will re read it again and again

She talks about grief and I recognize myself in some of it.

It was beautiful, magical, lyrical and yes sometimes sad but a good kind of sad.
It was perfect and I cannot recommended you enough to read it

I loved the illustrations too, it really bring something more unique

to drink coffee with a ghost is Amanda Lovelace's second installment in her things that h(a)unt series. While I didn't love the first collection in this duology, mostly because I didn't connect with any of the poems, this one was the opposite, some of them really resonated with me and made me feel lots of emotions.
While "to make monsters out of girls" talks about abusive relationships, this one talks about familial relationships, especially about Amanda's mother and sister.
Overall this was a very good poetry collection but I just didn't love it as much as I love her "women are some kind of magic" series.

Just like all the other Amanda Lovelace books/collections, "to drink coffee with a ghost" is an adventure, a journey to self-discovery and self-forgiveness. In this three-part collection, she brought me to a story full of anger, doubts, insecurities, grief, and trauma. This was also a hard read for me. Thank you for the trigger warnings! This also shelled out a lot of emotions for me. The poems, although most of them are addressed to a mother, were relatable and can be replaced by someone/people we all wanted to forgive, Someone we all love despite the awful things they've done to make us who we are today.

I love how the book portrayed forgiveness - a process that doesn't come with a manual or a three-step process. Because forgiving others and forgiving ourselves (and finding ourselves in the process) is never easy.

Here are some favorites from this book:

"what do we do
with all the things
we need to say
to someone
we'll never see
again?
-maybe that's why i write."

"they said to me ,
you can't be angry at your mother. you
can't be angry at your dead mother.
you can't be angry.

i wanted to take the floor & scream,
my trauma doesn't get wiped away
just because it's inconvenient for
you to love someone who was also
capable of causing others pain.
-hard feelings."

"i don't necessarily think you should have to
forgive those who have mistreated you in
the most life-defining ways. forgiveness us
something sacred. however, i would like to
think i could forgive you, if given the
opportunity. i would like to think you would
give me reason to.
-here's hoping."

"you are not
a disappointment.

you are not
the culmination

of what people
expect of you.
-life is not a pass or fail."

This was absolutely beautiful.
This was my first time reading anything from Amanda Lovelace, but it will most definitely not be my last. The heartbreaking story of her relationship with her mother, and then her lovely relationship with her sister, ugh, it just got me right in all the feels.

This book hit me very hard. Amanda Lovelace wrote beautiful poems that made me full of emotions. I had to pause couple of times. I highly recommend this one to everyone. 4.5/stars

Amanda Lovelace continues to be a special writer to me. I enjoy her poetry and I find that she has always written about the human experience and interpersonal relationships with poise and raw emotion. This book was much more about female relationships; that of the narrator and her mother, the narrator and her sister, etc., and that was a really gorgeous book to read as someone who has a mother and sister, in which I've struggled in my relationships. Mothers and daughters are often strained, so I am sure this resonates not just with me but with lots of daughters and mothers alike. I will always recommend Amanda's books to my female friends.

Amanda Lovelace is one of my favorite modern poets, and to drink coffee with a ghost doesn't disappoint. Her language is sharp and soothing all at the same time, and she does such a wonderful job of getting right to the core of the reader's emotion without it being unnecessarily melodramatic. to drink coffee with a ghost reads as a love letter to girls who have complicated relationships with their mothers, thereby having complicated relationships with themselves and those around them. Some of these poems hit me deep down in a way I haven't been reached before, and it's always such a raw, exhilarating moment when it happens.

I highly recommend this collection. For girls with complicated relationships, girls who have to learn to love themselves, or even just people who love beautiful language, to drink coffee with a ghost will not disappoint.

*A huge thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with an arc in exchange for an honest review*
4.5/5 stars
Maybe my favorite collection of poetry that Lovelace has come out with thus far. Poetry is something very deep and personal, not only to the author, but the reader as well. I think that my favorites of hers (the princess saves herself in this one & to drink coffee with a ghost) are the ones that I relate to the most, and I am just so thankful work like this exists. Beautiful, haunting, emotional, and lyrical, Lovelace's work will continue to be my favorite in contemporary poetry. Please read it when it comes out on September 17th, 2019!

This was a great read. Amanda Lovelace wrote a wonderful book that may make the reader pause to analyze their own life once or twice. The book is full of raw emotions: grief, hurt, hatred, love and forgiveness. I especially appreciated the theme of the book and the illustrations. The title is very appropriate for this read.

It's a shame this didn't warrant a higher rating from me-- the concept here is very good, a series of poetry made up of what she'd say in a conversation with the ghost of her mother. The reason I think it didn't work better for me is that it largely rehashes a lot of the ideas of her previous poetry collections and also she makes some stylistic choices that are very pop poetry that I don't necessarily love. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't.
I'd probably give a higher score by a star if I wasn't already familiar with Lovelace's poetry.

This hit me with all the feels. I don't think I can leave a really good review on this because I have so many emotions. Some of these poems definitely hit home as I lost my mother to an incurable illness, some of them (poems) made me incredibly emotional.

I do appreciate that Amanda does put trigger warnings in the beginning of all her poetry collections.

Thank you to netgalley for giving me to opportunity to read this before its publication date.

"the ways in which they suffer themselves is not an excuse to make you suffer in return." Amanda Lovelace

I want to thank NetGalley for giving me a ARC of Amanda Lovelace's new poetry anthology for an honest review.

It must have been a real journey for Amanda to write this book let alone having to go through it all. This book is a journey for the reader as well as we have all grieved for someone. When I read about her mother's cancer, it inspired me to finally write about the loss of my Grandma. This book has helped me in my own grieving process. I think Amanda is very brave to have been able to publish this book out into the world for everyone to see. People will connect with it because it is about something so real. Death of a loved one is the worst part of our existence but sharing our grief will help others like this book has helped me.

I thought the art in this book was beautiful and worked perfectly with the poetry. Each chapter focused on a different part of the grieving process and explored feelings of guilt and love and hate. The last chapter showed Amanda's strength and I am so happy that I get to read her work. She is an inspiration to everyone. Being able to go through the things that she has but still living her life to the fullest is amazing. A Brilliant poetry anthology that I recommend all to read!

Amanda Lovelace keeps doing it. Her words are poignant and raw, they always strike as profoundly sincere and human. I respect her immensely for the courage needed to open yourself like that to the world, to pour your experiences and your pain and your soul and heart into words and give them to others as a gift.

In this book, Amanda focuses primarily on the relationship with her mother, which was a toxic one. And even though I cannot relate to this topic as much as I related to the topics on her previous books (because I have the immense luck of a great loving relationship with my mother, that I won’t take for granted anymore after this reading experience), the poems still managed to make me feel a lot. And that only speaks wonders of Amanda’s writing style. Someone capable of making you feel torn apart at things that didn’t even happen to you is an author that shouldn’t be ignored, but greatly celebrated.

I also love that she never focuses on the trauma alone, she talks about healing as an ever ongoing process and that, ultimately, there’s always hope. And that is okay to feel contradictory things about a person or a time of your life, all that you need is acceptance and the will to keep going.

I am clearly always going to read what this amazing woman writes, and I highly recommend the experience of her books. It’s an enriching one as no other is.

This books takes you along with the emotions that come along when your relationship with your mother is abusive and complicated, and then she passes away. It’s about grief, about how a sister can be a saviour, how the relationship with a parent can (and most often will) resonate in (love)relationships. With beautiful drawings (all black and white, with one color accent each), and of course the amazing wordcraft of Amanda Lovelace.

I highly recommend this book. Get it when it comes out the 17th of September. I recommend all her books. Buy them, read them, feel them.

I’ve fallen in love with this author since the first book the princess saves herself in this one and this one doesn’t fail to compare to her raw emotional writing that hits in every way to me

This book starts with a list of trigger warnings that is bigger than some of the poems that follow so beware that some of these poems carry heavy emotions and heavy themes with them.
The book is divided into three parts: the first is about the author's relationship with her mother and all the ways in which she failed in protecting her daughter from the world and herself. The second part is about reconciling the good and the bad, learning to forgive the mother for what she couldn't change after getting sick and prematurely dying and still remember all the good moments that they had together. The third part is my favorite because it is about healing and finding a family.
My absolute favorite poems though are the one's about Amanda's spouse because they are what divides the sad poems from the happier ones.
Amanda's poetry is direct and heartfelt and I'm happy I finally had the opportunity of being introduced to her books.
This book is also illustrated and every drawing is absolutely beautiful.
Thank you to NetGalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for this ARC.

chills.
Thanks to Netgalley and the author for letting me read this piece of art.

I read this poetry collection in a very short amount of time, but let me state that it gave me enough to think about for days. I teared up, this is so important.

The Trigger Warnings section in the front reminded me that maybe literature today is headed in the right direction, with more and more authors including them in their works. I count myself fortunate for being able to start anything without even worrying about what's inside.
This fact and the book reminded me how fortunate I really am. For having parents who support me, and not having lost anyone really close to me, for having a relatively easy time while others have it terribly hard.

to drink coffee with a ghost made me think about how crucial it is to think twice before you talk: to avoid affecting those who look up to you in a harmful way.
Words hold endless power. As someone studying psychology, considering myself an empathic person, and trying my way of spiritualism I am well aware of how much it matters.

Please take care of others. Please be careful yourself.

The author showed me how much has happened to her and I rooted for her to get that happy ending, because some cases you just know that someone's a good person and they deserve it.

The art work in this poetry collection is absolutely gorgeous. Witchcraft, tarot and COFFEE are incredibly important things to me which means that I felt an even stronger connection to this on top of everything.

I'm so grateful to have been able to read it.

I am giving this book 4.75 stars!! This poetry book was so good!! I love this author so much and I can’t wait to have the finish copy in hands!! The book was also red for the reading especially for the challenge 6 which was Pick a book that has 5 or more words in the title !! Thanks to Netgalley for the e-arc in exchange of my honest review!!