Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley

15 reviews

jerichoknopp's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Medical content, Adult/minor relationship, Terminal illness, Cancer, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

jjha's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

4.25

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Medical content, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Chronic illness, Gaslighting, and Grief

Minor: Blood and Miscarriage

ems888's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, and Injury/Injury detail

ssorchaa's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective tense slow-paced

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Stalking, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual assault

bookworm_ohsea's review

challenging dark inspiring reflective sad tense

3.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Pregnancy, Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Grief, Sexual harassment, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Child abuse

bobbyheddy's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Rape, Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Death of parent

eringaudet's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Death of parent, Medical content, Rape, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Gaslighting, and Sexual assault

shelbycf27's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, and Cancer

zosiablue's review

dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

4.5

This was really remarkable. I'm not typically into memoirs & especially ones with personally triggering subject matters (old men taking advantage of teenagers), but this one felt like a public service. This is about the good men and bad men of the world, and Polley highlights them equally - she shows how easy it is to be a good man, how important it is to the health and future of young girls. She looks out for other girls through telling her own experiences, and it's just so beautiful.

Couple of ancillary things I found interesting - she talks about how defense lawyers in sexual abuse cases damage the victims, BUT wonders if keeping people out of jail in service of prison abolition makes this the greater good. She doesn't go into the nuances but just floating the idea made me 😦.

Second, the title - "running towards the danger" - challenges some of the current messaging of "be gentle with yourself." This is a cycle obviously - society says man up, then be gentle, then man up again. But I personally needed to hear this. I hide, I am often too gentle with myself. Sometimes I need to hear to run towards the danger. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Chronic illness, and Death of parent

strugglecity's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.75

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual harassment, Panic attacks/disorders, and Death of parent