A great book of poems

Gmorning Gnight! little pep talks for me & you

By: Lin-Manuel Miranda

Genre: Poetry

Pages: 207

Published: 2018

Read:  January

4 out of 5 stars

First, I love the reason this book was published. Miranda would tweet a Good Morning and a Good Night every day. Some of his followers requested the poems be published in a book. He obeyed.

Some poems were inspirational, some funny, some very serious and some just plain old cute. Although I did not care for every single one, they were all well done. The ones that didn’t trigger with me were because I felt the Good Morning versus Good Night poems were too similar, repeating the phrases.

I would love to see these poems in a page-a-day calendar so you can read one every morning/every night. I guess I could do that on Twitter. Jonny Sun did a phenomenal job with the illustrations for each poem as well.

One of my favorites is:

Good Morning.

I know it seems like everyone left

without you for the party

and those stepsisters suck,

but us woodland creatures are on your side.

Good night.

I know it seems like everyone is at the Prince’s ball

all the time,

but it’s okay to go home before midnight.

Kick off your shoes.