Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

80 reviews

stephmcoakley's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Grief, Abortion, and Death of parent

katschkekat's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Car accident, Abortion, and Alcohol

paigereitz's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

This was such a wonderful memoir of mom-grief. There were times I struggled with my therapist-hat coming on too strong, but that's very much a "me" problem and not a book problem. The mom grief me, though, was hit over the head by a two-by-four with this book and the depth of feeling wrapped up in it, all told through a lens of the author managing her own biracial identity and what it meant before and after her primary tie to her Korean world died. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, and Alcohol

olekittycat's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

2.5

I don't even really know what to say, but I will try to put something about the reading experience into words.

It was alright.  I teared up a few times.  The descriptions of food were verbose and evocative, sometimes excessively so.  I love Maangchi.

This is a story of grief and mourning, of finding your identity and how it changes as you grow, relationships and connections.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Death, Fatphobia, and Excrement

Minor: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Abortion, and Cultural appropriation

vulcandropout's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

I thought she was japanese this whole time bc band name and  can you make me breakfast in bed? And when I wake up in the morning will you give me lots of head?  This is my first audiobook I actually listened to the whole thing.  I feel like there is a lot of trauma here she still hasn't fully accepted as trauma while the whole book is about trauma until the very end.  Probably the only memoir Ill ever listen to .  I felt like I had to since since last year  I listen to japanese breakfast everyday.  Especially heft and sweet sounds of a distant planet. Hits me so hard. I actually never knew they were this popular like 20 million listens on spotify popular bc I never heard of them spotify reced them to me one day. All the listens are from me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Car accident, and Abortion

Why I tagged as sexual assault: i forgot what that thing kakashi does is called but she was like its not sexual assault and procedded to respond to being on the recieving end like if it were sexaul assault. It is also not an isolated incident.

toffishay's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

A beautiful, emotional memoir about family and turmoil and loss and grief. I cried as my stomach growled reading about the delicious food that held so many memories. Our lives are these complicated tapestries of feelings and events. What an honor to read this exercise in exploring a life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Xenophobia, Car accident, Abortion, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

taroroot's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

loved the descriptions of food and how that reminded her of her mother

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug use, Blood, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Emotional abuse

iamninjabuni's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

1.0

 

I do not recommend listening to this as an audiobook as the author (who reads it) is incredibly monotone and difficult to listen to. I often found myself having to go back because I had completely zoned out to whatever she was droning about due to her complete lack of tone. My review does not reflect how difficult it was to listen to her, but the content of the book itself. 

That aside, I think that this book was written for the author herself and it probably should have stayed in her journals. I understand that this is a book on grief and have tried to view it through that lens, everyone grieves differently. I had hoped to find something to relate to in the realm of parental loss or the difficult relationship between mother and daughter but did not find the author relatable at all. That wouldn’t be a big deal, but the author seems to have gone out of her way to alienate her audience. 

She comes off as whiny, spoiled, petulant, and ungrateful – maybe it is an only child thing? There is no introspection. She bemoans her disconnection to her culture while also stating that she never bothered to learn it. She gives no thought to what her family members may be feeling and comes across as self-centered. Again, something I could dismiss to grief if she didn’t spend so much time talking about how angry she was that her sick mother wouldn’t eat the food she made and how difficult it was for her to care for her. That could also be chalked up to her mentally and physically abusive upbringing, which the author brings up in an offhanded way and does not really address. Again – maybe this should have stayed private 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

phdoyle's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Body shaming, Cancer, Death, Medical content, and Death of parent

Minor: Addiction, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Excrement, Car accident, Abortion, and Alcohol