Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair

4 reviews

sierrabowers's review

emotional informative reflective relaxing medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Classism

teacupsandfirereads's review

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

I'll be honest, I haven't watched anything Selma Blair has been in, but I still wanted to pick this up for the learning about MS. I will say it didn't cover this as much as I thought or hoped it would. While the writing is real and raw, I felt lost in the story and the timelines. It portrays many ups and downs in her life; ways she was enabled, but also how she progressed through the various decisions she made and their consequences. While I love when a memoir is read by the author, Selma showed many emotions throughout, that while you would hope it would add to the story, I found it distracting. What I enjoyed most was the reflection throughout the story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Body shaming, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Cursing, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

kshertz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

3.5

It was fascinating to hear her life story. I love that she’s always wanted to be an author and took us through her mom, her love life and her diagnosis of MS especially. I enjoyed learning more about her and I like that she appears to have grown up with the diagnosis. I am happy to have read and learned from her story. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

decembermagpie's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Deportation