Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Just Kids by Patti Smith

24 reviews

haileyeh's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

2.75

The codependency is off the charts

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Sexual content

Moderate: Pregnancy

theinkdrinkerhouse's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

For a nonfiction read, 5 stars. However, I’d dock it a 0.5 on a personal thing due to moments where I had to research people she was referring since there were names I either had no idea or knew of them but not their name. So, it took me out of my immersion at times. But, once again, personal experience issue and not the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Death, and Drug use

Moderate: Pregnancy, Addiction, and Sexual content

Minor: Suicide

emabled's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

i never read non fiction. i picked this book up purely because a single person said it was good. instinct drove me to read it and i'm very glad i did.

what a beautiful book. a love letter to art, and even more so a literal love letter from patti to robert. their story is rich and encompassing. you feel the need to pay attention while reading, you feel the eminence of robert and patti's significance.

i will say that the countless names, of famous musicians, poets, photographers, producers, etc. was what took me out of the story a bit. i am not well read in hollywood or adjacent culture, especially not that of the 60s-90s, so this had me very confused. there was, most of the time, apt description of these celebrities so i would have enough context to continue, but sometimes it was like i was expected to know these names and histories.

anyway, the prose was gorgeous. patti smith has poetry in her veins. her storytelling is captivating and gorgeous simultaneously, her love for others and theirs for hers so present in her recollections. i did just talk negatively about the constant name dropping, but i will say that it also creates a lovely metaphor: we are who we meet. we are mosaics of everyone we interact with. patti depicts that like a true artist.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Medical content, Drug use, Grief, and Suicide

Moderate: Sexual content and Body horror

Minor: Addiction

pernillelsk's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Death, Terminal illness, and Drug use

Moderate: Grief, Addiction, and Pregnancy

Minor: Suicide

chrissysbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

Really enjoyed Patti Smith's biography, I read it without knowing anything about her or Robert. So melancholic but has a deep sense of nostalgia towards a time I wasn't even alive. Beautifully poetic and raw.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Sexual content, Homophobia, and Terminal illness

Minor: Pregnancy

siebensommer's review against another edition

adventurous reflective medium-paced

3.5

das geht gar nicht. das ist wie schlagzeugspielen - wenn man den einen beat auslässt, erzeugt man einen neuen. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Addiction

Moderate: Suicide and Eating disorder

Minor: Abortion and Pregnancy

thesupermassive's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Homophobia

tellmemore's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Terminal illness and Medical content

Minor: Kidnapping and Pregnancy

thmei's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Death

Moderate: Drug use, Addiction, and Grief

Minor: Pregnancy

for the addiction & drug use tags: she & especially robert use drugs casually, mostly hallucinogens and later weed, and if i remember correctly they befriend some alcoholics but nothing particularly distressing or graphic is described, it’s just frequently mentioned. they have some bad trips but mostly lots of fun and creativity. for the pregnancy tag:

patti is briefly pregnant at 19 towards the beginning of the book and describes being treated badly during labor and the bittersweet sadness of giving up a child. she is also pregnant again as a married adult during the last chapter.

nothing is graphic at all. for the grief and death tags: robert’s death

from aids, as well as the death of his partner sam wagstaff,

is the primary focus of the last two chapters. you know from the prologue that he will die. these chapters are quite short and i personally didn’t find them overwhelming, but they are sad and the hopefulness at the beginning of this ordeal is very sad to the reader, who knows what will inevitably happen. it’s also quite easy to predict what will occur given the events of the book and any knowledge of the era, even with no knowledge of patti smith’s life. it is still extremely upsetting.

joensign's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, and Terminal illness

Minor: Pregnancy and Suicide