Reviews tagging 'Child death'

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

4 reviews

hjcomic's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

This is very well written but I felt like I was lurching from trauma to trauma. I was quite triggered by some of the sections.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Child death, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Sexual assault, Murder, and Violence

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

jamihoneycutt's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I promised myself that I would read more of Maggie O’Farrell after reading Hamnet and falling in love with her writing style. Unsurprisingly, I loved this and was so sad when it came to an end. The audiobook performance was phenomenal and I am baffled by the life this woman has lived. So many of the passages have been floating around in my mind since reading them. This might be the first book I buy a physical copy of for the purpose of highlighting and annotating. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Child death, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Medical content, Death, Infertility, and Violence

aislinn_mcd_harrison's review

emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

4.5

O’Farrell’s writing is incomparable in its atmosphere and style. I have found myself profoundly moved by several parts of this book, though others slightly less. It has inspired me to reflect on my own life and how I have treated and considered it throughout, and has bored it’s way into my brain in the days I have been reading it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Death, and Child death