Reviews tagging 'Pandemic/Epidemic'

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on by Franny Choi

4 reviews

wanderlust_romance's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

 Is it the end of the world as we know it? If so, why does it feel like we’ve been here before? How do individuals contend with their place in this cycle of anger, violence, revolt, and hope? This collection of poetry is filled with so many raw emotions. The poems examine and reflect on a multitude of themes - colonization, the Korean War, racial consciousness, environmental degradation, the COVID-19 pandemic, SA, gun violence - with much thoughtfulness and wisdom.

If you read Mohammed El-Kurd’s Rifqa and connected to the juxtaposition of nature, destruction, and resistance, then this collection by Franny Choi will also satisfy. It’s an honest reflection on the state of the world: it’s (sometimes) all kinds of awful, and yet we keep moving through it. Excellent on audio and read by the author. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Racism, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Genocide

michaelion's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

4.5

I've been feeling very hopeless / miserable lately and even just the first poem made me be like wow there really is hope for the future / humanity. I paid $28 for this book and it was worth it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Grief, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Violence, War, and Misogyny

Moderate: Death of parent, Gun violence, Police brutality, Hate crime, Pandemic/Epidemic, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Blood, Classism, and Genocide

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Racial slurs

panickedhonking's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

A strange mix of the most tragic and heartbreaking poems which gave me a sense that there's something after every apocalypse. Exhaustive list of content warnings somehow non-exhaustive still.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Abortion, Domestic abuse, Colonisation, Miscarriage, Police brutality, Death, Misogyny, Genocide, Eating disorder, Slavery, Sexual violence, Fire/Fire injury, War, Trafficking, Suicidal thoughts, Mass/school shootings, Body horror, Suicide, Sexual content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Grief, Child death, Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Rape, Xenophobia, and Sexual assault

tmchopra's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, War, Genocide, Misogyny, Colonisation, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic