Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

17 reviews

orangepeaches's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book is really informative in the native ways of thought and theory. I'm reading it for a native American Literature class and it really is a decolonized lens through the whole book. Everything is cyclical and the timeline is jumbled but in a way the story makes sense and shows growth, place, and time as cyclical. Most of the book I would say is also dedicated to the place, the setting, in that there is strong connections to the land and the place the story occupies. It is a story of resistance healing and love at the end of it all. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, War, Grief, and Alcoholism

Minor: Abandonment, Colonisation, Death, Racism, Medical content, Torture, and Medical trauma

laindarko2's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Blood, Colonisation, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Grief, Violence, Death, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Animal death, War, Xenophobia, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, and Adult/minor relationship

coolfijiwater's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Racism, and Colonisation

Minor: Gun violence, Vomit, and Sexual content

dxlltopia's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Violence, Cursing, Death, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, War, Alcoholism, and Torture

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Body shaming, Cultural appropriation, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Sexual assault, Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, Colonisation, Classism, Rape, Trafficking, Racism, Physical abuse, Animal death, Sexual content, and Misogyny

Minor: Genocide, Drug abuse, Colonisation, Vomit, Dementia, Medical content, Car accident, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, and Animal death

cmbohn's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Mental illness, Colonisation, and Alcoholism

katharina90's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.0

I just couldn't connect with this one. I found the nonlinear storytelling hard to follow which definitely wasn't helping.

The audiobook narration was very oldschool. Announcements like "this is the end of disc 1" were a real throwback.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Alcoholism, Colonisation, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Sexual content

pallasreads's review against another edition

challenging hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Weaves different threads of stories together beautifully 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Addiction

Moderate: Blood, Sexual content, War, and Racism

c_lizziebeth's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Medical trauma, Medical content, Death, Mental illness, Grief, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

Moderate: Genocide, Body horror, Torture, Blood, Colonisation, Sexual harassment, Racism, Murder, and Cursing

Minor: Gun violence

lonnahroyale's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

Such interesting views of Indigenous religion, eye opening to what colonization has done to Indians but also takes the stance on not treating American Indians like the victims. Really really loved this, it has haunted me for a while.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Animal death, Racism, Rape, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Addiction, and Torture

helenasiuzmu's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Colonisation, Death, Forced institutionalization, Racism, Sexual content, Alcoholism, and Violence