Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell

16 reviews

annabunce's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

skillwithaquill's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Moving. Emotional. Resonant. As someone with several chronic illnesses, this book was especially poignant and salient for me. 

None of the usual trappings of inspiration porn, healing through Jesus, or spiritual woowoo that many memoirs about illness and near-death experiences fall into. It’s thoughtful, but not preachy. Meaningful, but not maudlin. I’ll definitely revisit it in the future. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Confinement, Medical content, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, and Sexism

Moderate: Misogyny and Death

Minor: Abortion, Blood, Excrement, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, and Vomit

Other content warnings & specifics: medical sexism, graphic discussions of childbirth & c-section, attempted assault & kidnapping, child in peril, graphic depiction of a near drowning, claustrophobia, abortion (in the context of a missed miscarriage requiring surgical intervention).

qtcarolyn's review

emotional tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Blood, Miscarriage, Bullying, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Confinement, Infertility, Infidelity, Murder, and Vomit

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Sexual violence, Dysphoria, and Animal death

leefox's review

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Chronic illness, Sexual harassment, and Medical content

elinorrae's review against another edition

5.0

incredibly well written and the story was just so heartbreaking but full of hope

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage and Medical content

Moderate: Bullying, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Sexual harassment

gabilaras's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Chronic illness, Abortion, Medical content, and Bullying

Moderate: Rape and Infertility

Minor: Pedophilia

edgaranjapoe's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Medical content, Death, Infertility, Child death, Blood, Medical trauma, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Chronic illness

Minor: Abortion, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Violence, Physical abuse, Bullying, Car accident, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Rape, Sexual violence, Ableism, Murder, and Gaslighting

cmbohn's review

reflective slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma and Medical content

Moderate: Miscarriage, Violence, Pregnancy, Infertility, and Injury/Injury detail

gluten_full's review

dark hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

Her ability to write about the way Illness, pain, fear, and grief manifest in a person has dazzled me since Hamnet, and this book did not disappoint. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Chronic illness

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

It’s about a woman’s near death experiences, which include instances of illness in her childhood, threats by men, drowning, pregnancy and childbirth complications, and her child daughter’s own near death experience

msteinhaus's review

reflective medium-paced

4.0

Maggie O'Farrell's writing is lovely--very evocative without being over-the-top or cloying. I appreciated that while near-death experiences are the thread around which this memoir is organized, they aren't always the primary focus of a given vignette. My only complaint is that the last chapter about her daughter felt out of place--it is a sharp evolution/departure from the other stories and I would have preferred its exclusion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Chronic illness, Medical content, and Miscarriage