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lilcogle612's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide attempt, Self harm, Suicide, Death of parent, and Mental illness
bella613's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
funny
inspiring
medium-paced
5.0
Alexi has been someone I looked at as a role model since middle school. I first knew about her because of her running career, but fell in love with her creative and inspiring personality.
This book is so relatable and real. She covers being a young female athlete, but she covers so much more than that. Her voice is very unique and from her university-age poetry, to her films, to thus book, and whatever she comes up with in the future, I'll always want to hear from her.
This book is so relatable and real. She covers being a young female athlete, but she covers so much more than that. Her voice is very unique and from her university-age poetry, to her films, to thus book, and whatever she comes up with in the future, I'll always want to hear from her.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Blood, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Grief, and Gore
saranies's review against another edition
4.0
A good sports memoir because she doesn't just stick to sports. Goes into her mental health and her relationship with her mother. An inspiring read.
cara_ready's review against another edition
4.0
This book was simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking. I feel she described her depression in an honest, relatable way that really struck a chord with me. Also, I am glad she went into detail about what young female athletes go through. I think this would be a great book for a teen athlete. There are things she discussed (like delayed puberty) that I had never even considered. I enjoyed her philosophy on working hard but not beating yourself up. Again, I think this is a great book for young women!
arotella's review against another edition
2.0
I really wanted to like this book, but something about it came across as very immature. There was something about how things were written that felt disingenuous, self important, and/or written because the author was trying to force a specific response from her reader.
The detail in which she described her mom trying to saw off her own arm and the whole chapter on lice, felt out of place and left me feeling icky.
The detail in which she described her mom trying to saw off her own arm and the whole chapter on lice, felt out of place and left me feeling icky.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Self harm
tiffschwartz's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 stars out of 5 stars.
I flipped between liking this book to not really feeling it. I loved how much feeling was in the chapters about her mother, father, depression, running and being able to be strong with all that she was hit with.
But there was something about the memories and the order they came up that seemed disheveled to me. The chapter "lice" seemed a little out of place, but there is a chance I probably just zoned out and scratched my head too much.
I flipped between liking this book to not really feeling it. I loved how much feeling was in the chapters about her mother, father, depression, running and being able to be strong with all that she was hit with.
But there was something about the memories and the order they came up that seemed disheveled to me. The chapter "lice" seemed a little out of place, but there is a chance I probably just zoned out and scratched my head too much.