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caro6408's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent, Terminal illness, and Death
Moderate: Medical content, Grief, and Cancer
Minor: Excrement and Drug use
isaarusilor's review against another edition
reflective
sad
slow-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief, Death, Cancer, Death of parent, and Terminal illness
jayevans's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
5.0
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Graphic: Death of parent and Terminal illness
suzsta's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
A startlingly intimate portrait of the death of her mother, De Beauvoir articulates the agonies and ecstasies of loving someone who is going to shortly die in this poignant memoir. Visceral, lyrical, and deeply affecting throughout it's 100 pages, A Very Easy Death opens a window into the final days of Francoise De Beauvoir's life that pulls no punches, but drips with compassion right to the inevitable end.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for access to this translated work.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness
cepbreed's review against another edition
emotional
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sad
slow-paced
4.0
"Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.”
A complete 180 from the current pattern of books I've been reading and a worthwhile beginning to a new year of reading. I will be honest, I started this because it is short and I thought I'd be able to finish it before the end of December in order to add another book to my 2022 stats. I continued reading even after 2022 passed because my interest was genuinely captured. Anyone that knows me knows I was hospitalized and near death for two months. That entire period of my life is filled with shame and pain, and to see the outside perspective of a loved one is so different. My mother sat at my bedside while I was dying and continued to support me in recovering from the worst of my chronic illness. Simone de Beauvoir's experience is similar, but also near opposite. She cares for her mother while also being helpless to prevent the inevitable end to her life. I need to do more reading like this to gain wider perspective, I guess this book helped me affirm my place in this world more.
(I took the easy road reading the translation when I should’ve read it in French to fend off forgetting my 6.5 years of language education…)
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(I took the easy road reading the translation when I should’ve read it in French to fend off forgetting my 6.5 years of language education…)
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- Class Of 2013 - Mitski
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Graphic: Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Cancer, Death, Chronic illness, Death of parent, and Grief
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