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Punching Bag by Rex Ogle

2 reviews

ketchup_chugger_al's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Punching Bag is a beautifully written book about one man’s experience of growing up the victim of domestic violence and all that comes with it. As he struggles to deal with everything happening at home, the loss of his sister when he was a child, and attempting to shield his younger brother from the same fate as himself, Rex Ogle paints a difficult but hopeful story of survival. It’s incredibly difficult read. However, anyone who’s picked up this book who may be in a similar situation or who has lived it, it’s a reminder you’re never truly alone and that there’s always a little hope.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Grief, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Homophobia, Sexism, Stalking, Child death, Blood, and Racial slurs

Minor: Religious bigotry, Self harm, Islamophobia, Suicidal thoughts, War, Misogyny, and Xenophobia

mandi4886's review

challenging emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Blood, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, and Bullying

Minor: Pregnancy, Self harm, Stalking, Vomit, and Abandonment