698 reviews for:

Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

Sarah Polley

4.4 AVERAGE

thesarahsilvester's review against another edition

5.0

emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

breakfastwithstephanie's review

4.25

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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Beautiful memoir. Highly recommend 

alanacca123's review against another edition

4.25

informative reflective medium-paced

discoball_z's review

3.0

hopeful reflective medium-paced

jodimclean's review

3.5

reflective medium-paced

fiberreader's review against another edition

4.0

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

heatherjchin's review

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Death of parent

Minor: Terminal illness

kimcheel's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

siobhanward's review

3.5

emotional reflective medium-paced

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I wanted to like this more than I did. Sarah Polley's life has been fascinating (and honestly, horrifying), and this series of essays reflects on her life, her learnings and where she is today. Some essays resonated better with me than others, and the variety of topics makes it so that there's something for everyone in there. Mostly my takeaway is that the kinds of people who encourage their kids to become child actors are not the kind of people you want as parents.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Pregnancy

kristadoiron's review

3.25

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced