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Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Alcohol, Dysphoria
Moderate: Fatphobia, Vomit, Grief, Gaslighting
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders
i don’t know how to rate a book like this. i don’t think you can love or hate a book about someone’s trama; it’s someone’s life and it’s their story. it’s the first book i’ve finished in three days since before summer started which makes me happy as i’ve been in the mother of all reading slumps. i don’t know how to feel about this book, honestly some of it was uncomfortable to read. the writing style at times bothered me. though i felt like the scenes really helped one understand what she went through as a child, but it just felt weird to read them and it felt like a <i>book </i> book. do you get what i mean? maybe autobiographies are just not my cup of tea.
seeing everything jeanette went through and reading it chronologically made me so happy for her recovery and that she was finally able to put herself first instead of doing the icarly reboot. when i picked this book up I had no idea about her background, no idea about her mom or anything about her story other than her being sam puckett from the tv show I watched when I was a kid. i wish i had known what it was about and there was a content warning beforehand.
overall i’m happy that’s she’s in recovery.
Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse
Moderate: Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Vomit
Graphic: Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Grief
Moderate: Body shaming, Cancer, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Alcohol
Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Death of parent
Minor: Drug use
As a review in The Atlantic pointed out, McCurdy has a knack for capturing her childhood thoughts and feelings. She shares detailed stories of her mother's abuse through the lens of her childhood self, allowing the audience to simultaneously clock her mom's concerning behavior and assess the child-like mental gymnastics that McCurdy went through to justify it. That skill, combined with McCurdy's dedication to exhaustively detailing her eating disorder recovery, pushes this memoir to the next level.
Graphic: Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, Death of parent
Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Vomit
Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment
Its a tough listen, but also very inspiring to hear someone decide to break the cycle of trauma and heal.
Graphic: Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Alcohol
Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment
Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment
Moderate: Ableism
Minor: Transphobia