Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos by Lucy Knisley

10 reviews

bookshelfmystic's review against another edition

emotional informative tense fast-paced

3.25

 I don't know, for some reason Kid Gloves didn't resonate as much with me as the first Lucy Knisley graphic novel I read, Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride. Maybe the experiences were too foreign to me and I'll feel differently once I have a kid. I also didn't love the mid-chapters about pregnancy and birth information, since I think I already knew 90% of it. I was interested in hearing more of her feelings (and her husband's, who I know didn't want kids as of the start of Something New) and less about the medicine behind childbirth.

I still enjoyed Knisley's poignant and heartfelt drawings, and I did cry a lot at the end of the book (

during the author's traumatic medical experience with eclampsia

), but I think that was more out of terror than anything. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Infertility

ghmcculloch's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Medical trauma

Minor: Mental illness and Blood

tabbynationevents's review

emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Infertility, and Medical content

theliteraryagenda's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Infertility and Miscarriage

Minor: Blood

whitzilla's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

A beautifully created memoir. Occasionally sad, often funny, always informative, this book portrays conception and pregnancy with realism and attention to detail that's often lacking.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Medical content, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Infertility

Moderate: Vomit

christiecaitlin's review

emotional funny informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage

Moderate: Infertility

dotshoes's review

emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, and Infertility

Moderate: Infertility

nicolelovesbooks's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility and Miscarriage

sarz's review

emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Medical content, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Vomit, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Infertility

Minor: Abortion

sandyd's review

emotional funny informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Amazing and excellent but graphic in the omg that is disgusting (vomit, so much vomit) and horrible (eclampsia near death experience) sense of the word as well as being a graphic novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Medical trauma, and Medical content

Moderate: Infertility and Miscarriage