Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen

10 reviews

okapipo's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Classism, Abortion, Domestic abuse, Cancer, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Medical content, Drug abuse, Addiction, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Death, Terminal illness, and Pregnancy

poisoned_icecream's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Pregnancy, and Infidelity

Moderate: Abortion

ldawson's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Pregnancy, Drug abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Infidelity, Alcohol, Mental illness, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Sexism, and Abortion

georgiarybanks's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Abortion, Infidelity, Cancer, Drug abuse, and Pregnancy

lghrndn's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, and Addiction

Moderate: Infidelity, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, and Medical content

Minor: Pregnancy, Adult/minor relationship, and Cancer

samarakroeger's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Mental illness, Abortion, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

chezler24's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

I was not previously familiar with this author's works prior to reading this series of memoirs by her so it was interesting to see this person's life from youth going into adulthood. At moments, it was hard for me to fully connect with Ditlevsen and her choices; however, this could easily be explained by generational and cultural (and honestly just personal) differences. It was interesting to see the development of a woman writer and a poet as she had to deal with a poor upbringing, difficulties being taken seriously, and the expectations of a woman/mother. The turn at the end with the addiction and rehab kind of caught me off guard. Up until then Tove had been able to handle and work through any difficulties, but this particular thing (exacerbated by her husband's psychosis) really hampered her writing and overall quality of life until she was able to find a more stable sense of recovery. Collectively, this is a raw, intimate look into the life of an individual.   

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Medical content, Abortion, Death, and Pregnancy

Minor: Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Terminal illness, and War

ardodge's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Abortion, Addiction, and Alcoholism

okarenhelena's review against another edition

dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Cancer, and Eating disorder

Minor: Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Infidelity, War, Abandonment, Self harm, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Medical content, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, Classism, and Vomit

miaaisha's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This trilogy is so beautifully written and translated, I think writing a review would diminish that. What I find so fascinating is how each book is written with such an untarnished point of view depending on the time period. It's also interesting that the third book lacks quotation marks which reminds me very much of Sally Rooney's writing style where the fluidity of things are reflected by it. My favourite of all three would definitely be Childhood. Though the other two were equally good, I just found the first one to be so important and poignant to the whole story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Toxic relationship

Minor: War, Pregnancy, and Infidelity