Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

내 휴식과 이완의 해 by Ottessa Moshfegh

69 reviews

thebookpaiges's review against another edition

challenging emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Addiction, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, and Death of parent

Moderate: Abortion

Minor: Murder, Medical trauma, Ableism, and Medical content

(Uses ableist language)

reneeandreea's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

Honestly, I don’t get the hype. The best parts were the

“Infermiterol” experiment and the visit to Reva’s family home.

This was fully sitting at 3 stars until the very end. I think Moshfegh ruined it all in the last page. Nothing negative to be said for the quality of writing. This was just boring.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Addiction, Eating disorder, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Alcohol, Drug use, and Mental illness

Moderate: Cancer, Vomit, Blood, Death of parent, Infidelity, Death, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Excrement, Chronic illness, and Suicide

Minor: Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Abortion

chloesummerhill's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Vomit, Death of parent, Drug use, Cursing, Grief, Sexual content, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Abandonment, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, and Self harm

cady_sass's review against another edition

challenging dark funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I understand that loving this book is a huge red flag. What can I say, unhinged, mentally unwell women resonate. Depressed woman hates everyone, doesn’t want to leave her apartment, and tries to medicate herself into sleeping as much as she can for a year? Wait, was this book written about me? Just kidding. Kinda. 
This is definitely, without a doubt, a love it or hate it moment. I can’t imagine feeling indifferent towards this.

The only thing that I do hate is the cover. It’s horrible, and for no reason because the main character is blonde. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Chronic illness, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Cancer, Dysphoria, Excrement, Grief, Pregnancy, Suicide, Body shaming, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Self harm

lilacfoxes's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

There’s literally no way to describe this book to anyone wanting to read it. It’s not light, the main character is certainly not lovable but you’ll lap up every page.

Fight Club for the girlies. Sylvia Plath you would have loved this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Addiction, Drug use, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Vomit, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Body shaming, Animal death, Cancer, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Excrement, Abortion, and Chronic illness

sakisreads's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

✨ Thrifted ✨

This book requires quite a few trigger warnings, which I’ll put as content warnings.

I don’t really know how to feel about this book. I was recommended it by someone years ago, but never got around to it until now.

The unnamed main character has a LOT of trauma and is clearly unforgiving of that (and of others around her as a result). Her frenemy Reva is also going through a lot and comes to the main character for some kind of solace, although she never seems to find it. 

The language is incredibly descriptive so I could imagine EVERYTHING that was going on, which I appreciated most of the time (except for when it was triggering) 🥺

I really burst out laughing when the artist Ping Xi appeared with his ‘splattered paintings, à la Jackson Pollock, made from his own ejaculate’ 😂

I’m not sure I would recommend this, but maybe once I know what the deeper meaning of it is I can appreciate it more and come back to review it in a different light ✨

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Chronic illness, Animal cruelty, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body shaming, Medical content, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, and Mental illness

dannilmp's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

This is not a book to read if you don't want to ruin your mood or would like to keep a happy disposition toward life itself. My year of rest and relaxation is certainly one of the more stranger books I have read this year. A story about a young woman wishing to go into hibernation in an attempt to rewire her brain about her views towards herself and life itself. 

Despite not liking any of the characters and the lack of character development throughout the book, I must say I felt compelled to keep reading. I wanted to see if this year of rest and relaxation would accomlish what our MC thought it would and deep down I wanted it to work for her. But I also appreciate that the idea was careless, not well thought through at all and certainly isn't something I would ever recommend anyone to try or even attempt anything remotely similar. 

The only reason I gave this book two stars is due to the fact the ending and the build up to the ending have stuck in my head and I have been tossing and turning ideas relating to them in my mind for days. This book may have been one of my least liked reads of this year however I must applaud the author's capability to get me thinking long after I have put the book down. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Mental illness

Moderate: Vomit, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Abortion, Cancer, Chronic illness, and Addiction

lenka_lenka's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I loved it! There’s something so lonely about the main character, so human. I can see why some people hate the main character, ( that was the purpose ) but i couldn’t help but to root for her. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Addiction, Alcohol, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Sexual content, Abortion, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Medical content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Drug use, Eating disorder, and Toxic relationship

beepbuggy's review against another edition

dark reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Vomit, Terminal illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Mental illness, Grief, Chronic illness, Addiction, Drug use, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Death of parent, Confinement, Cancer, Body shaming, Alcoholism, and Abortion

cimmalex's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

The worst book I’ve read in my adult life. It is shocking to me how this book is raved about, and how horrible it ended up being. My favorite part was the ending, but not because the book was over. The ending was also the saddest part of the entire book. I would’ve opted to not finish it, but I felt like I had to. I’m sorry I wasted the time. The audiobook narrator was insufferable too

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Addiction, Infidelity, Grief, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Ableism, Alcoholism, Classism, Confinement, Death of parent, Death, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Cancer, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, and Eating disorder