Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair

28 reviews

millywebster's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Antisemitism, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Minor: Pregnancy

itschelseaw's review

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

Selma Blair is an actress I grew up loving for her roles in Legally Blonde and Cruel Intentions. I had no idea her life was so difficult and rife with personal tragedies until this book. Hearing her read it made it that much more emotional; you could hear the times when she worked to compose herself, when she was protecting herself from her story, and when she was delighted by what she was talking about.
Overall a good celebrity memoir!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Sexual assault, Medical content, and Alcohol

wendym3's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

Though some subject matter is hard, her tone is reflective, empowered.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction and Emotional abuse

Minor: Eating disorder, Rape, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt

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

zehrrz's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Eating disorder

funkyauntjules's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

so incredible. i had been wanting to read this for months after picking it up and i'm so glad i finally got to. blair's style is just so visceral, clear, and open. she cracked herself right open to write this! the true theme of labels and language and how it connects to her relationships (her mother, her son, herself) is so beautiful. i absolutely loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Alcohol

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

thenovelbookshelf's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

A beautiful, heart-breaking, heart-wrenching, emotionally compelling memoir of Selma Blair's life from the early years to now.
  
We all like to think that stardom and celebrity is easy, beautiful, graceful, healthy. This proves that you never know what people have gone through in their lives.
  
From the first drink at age 3, to daily drinking to numb the pain from unbeknownst MS, Selma Blair tells a frank & honest recollection of her memories.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Rape, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Drug use, Toxic relationship, Dementia, and Injury/Injury detail

caseythereader's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.25

 - I didn't know much about Selma Blair before starting this book, other than having seen her in a few movies and knowing about her MS diagnosis. Her memoir takes readers inside what has so far been a fairly private life, and I'll remember it forever.
- This book is a hard read. Blair has been through a lot in her life. I also read the audiobook, read by Blair herself, and she breaks into tears at many points in the story.
- However, MEAN BABY also delivers on the celebrity front. Blair name drops with abandon, and takes us with her to fancy award show parties, photo shoots, and to hang out with the likes of Carrie Fisher and Karl Lagerfeld. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

leighannezinsmeister's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

megang519's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

The memoir I didn't know I needed until I cracked it open! Beautifully written, vulnerable, and enlightening.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

Moderate: Body shaming, Death, Drug use, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Minor: Animal death and Death of parent