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slinney's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault
busybusyreading_asako's review against another edition
5.0
This book is a tapestry of Osbourne-Crowley’s own experience with abuse, chronic illness, and disordered eating - as well as those of more than 100 women and non-binary people that she interviewed for this project. She treads with extreme respect and care to the stories she tells, and the result is a book that is eye-opening, highly emotional, and somehow also compulsively readable.
This was such an ambitious concept and it was so well executed. The breadth, depth, and variety of research undertaken was incredible - a combination of classic and contemporary fiction and non fiction, as well as scientific texts were referenced to create a rich and diverse backdrop for stories of the female and nonbinary experience with trauma, abuse, and the body’s reckoning.
By the way, I don’t think I’ve ever read a Non Fiction book that referenced Fiction books… Have you?? I really enjoyed little ‘aha’ moments when a book I’d read was mentioned, which usually doesn’t happen in Non Fic! Some examples are Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Dept of Speculation, Conversations with Friends, and The Crane Wife. I found these references quite refreshing and made some aspects of this text particularly accessible and relatable.
I honestly can’t recommend this highly enough. It’s heavy but readable, and so necessary.
Graphic: Eating disorder, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence
megabookdork's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Medical trauma, Abortion, and Gaslighting
ninaszewczyk's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Mental illness, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Murder, and Alcohol
j_ash7's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Grief
madelonpaige's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts