Who is Courtney Peppernell?

Courtney Peppernell is a bestselling author from Australia. She is known for her deeply moving poetry and storytelling. Many of her poetry and storytelling books have resonated with readers around the world. In 2016, her first poetry collection, “Pillow Thoughts”, reached number one and was a best-seller.

In her books, she blends love, healing, and self-discovery themes. Her inspiration comes from the people she meets and the places she visits.

Backstory of “Pillow Thoughts”

This book focuses on heartbreaks, love, the loss of love, and your self-worth. Moments in the book talk about how you should learn to love yourself. While others talk about how special love is.

It took months for people to recognize “Pillow Thoughts” since it was a self-published book. However one morning when the Chainsmokers tweeted positive feedback about the book, everybody started reading and loving the book asking for more.

Another theme stood out when reading this book; continuing your journey no matter how hard life gets. Reading “Pillow Thoughts” is enjoyable since aspects are relatable to that specific part of the book. As it motivates people to keep moving forward.

Purpose of writing this book

While Peppernell wrote “Pillow Thoughts” it seemed she wanted to create a character that would represent everybody. She tries to avoid gender-based, race-related, or about their preferences when writing “Pillow Thoughts.”

This poetry book helps us understand ourselves better when it comes to love and heartbreaks. However, her book focuses on understanding human emotions and offers comfort to those who have been lost or alone in life to get a better understanding of their personal lives.

Peppernell also knew that many people struggled with their emotions about love. After reading this book, it was relatable. It made me understand life from a different perspective that I hadn’t looked at before.

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To show the world, that quotes in the book are meaningful, Courtney Peppernell wrote a meaningful and heartfelt book. Showing others that it's okay when you are unsure of what you are feeling and that you can still learn to understand yourself better.

Pros and Cons

This book can be very influential to those who see love and its lessons positively. Even though love can be upsetting and can cause things like depression to occur in one’s life, many learn from their past love lives which makes the book more promising.

As well as, knowing that the book can be a more positive aspect, many parts of the book talk about, the love to ‘never meant to be’ which can hurt others thinking they aren’t worth love.

Although the book tells us that we are worthy of love at the end of the book, it helps us understand that life is upsetting at times. However, noticing the small good moments in life is what makes us whole.

Overall Summary of “Pillow Thoughts”

Overall, the book mentions all the things that love includes: lust, genuine love, distance, loneliness, sadness when a loved one is gone, and even things like respect and values.

This book is perfect for those who don’t have much experience with love, It tells them what they should expect in the future. However, it also helps people who have been in love understand a different perspective on love.

Even though the book does have sadder aspects, it motivates people to keep going even though there are struggles in life. As well as it lets you know that you should love yourself even if there aren’t big things in your life because sometimes even the small things can make you smile.