Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

89 reviews

christinakann's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Medical content, and Death

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

robyn_elouise's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

4.0

It’s kind of like reading those recipe blogs where you scroll past five paragraphs of deeply personal stories to get to the ingredients list. I don’t necessarily mean that in a bad way; preparing and sharing food can be heavily tied to our memories. It’s beautiful that Michelle Zauner found a way to connect with her Korean family and identity through food. I’m very curious to see what the movie will be like!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Cancer

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Abortion, Car accident, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Grief, and Infidelity

rieviolet's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I can only add to all the praise this memoir has gotten. It was honest, brutal, heartbreaking, mesmerizing, just all-around wonderful. 

I loved the way food was a focal point throughout the narration, how its connection with one's cultural heritage was so strongly and beautifully illustrated. It really prompted me to reflect on the food I've grown up with and its significance for my own selfhood.
The linguist in me also really appreciated the lovely reflections on language and on a mother tongue. 

The writing style was just *chef's kiss*. There were so many passages that I kept re-reading thinking to myself "How could she manage to capture this feeling with such poignant words and turn of phrases?", I was just floored. 

My mother had struggled to understand me just as I struggled to understand her. Thrown as we were on opposite sides of a fault line - generational, cultural, linguistic - we wandered lost without a reference point, each of us unintelligible to the other's expectations, until these past few years when we had just begun to unlock the mystery, carve the psychic space to accommodate each other, appreciate the differences between us, linger in our refracted commonalities. Then, what would have been the most fruitful years of understanding were cut violently short, and I was left alone to decipher the secrets of inheritance without its key. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Violence, Alcoholism, Car accident, Racism, Child abuse, Death, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Excrement, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, and Vomit

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Addiction, Abortion, and Rape

dhritigupta's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

i cried so much what a beautiful book

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Infidelity and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Car accident

bookswithgeorgia's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Vomit, Death of parent, Abortion, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, Cancer, and Blood

asdfghjkl3000's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

bro this book is like a rollercoaster of emotions. It revolves around food which i really appreiciate. michelles relationship with her mom in her teen years and the depression she talked about was also rly relatable. I def shed a few tears when it happened :( the only reason i dint give this book a full 5 stars is because i just wish i could have connected with it a lot more even though it was really reflective at the begining and made me think abt my experiences like that she has, towards the end i dint feel as connected but i still of course felt really emotional. Theres just something i cant put my finger on BUT OVERALL PLS READ THIS ITS RLY FUCKING GOOD I JUST HAVE EMOTION PROBLEMS AS U CAN SEE.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Grief

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

aymyoo's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

kingwow's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

easily the saddest book I've read in a while. However, its so inspiring in how she reconnects to her korean roots and that connection she has with her mother. Brutally honest.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Grief, Medical content, Abortion, Alcoholism, Cancer, Bullying, Alcohol, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Vomit

kurumipanda's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Terminal illness, Cancer, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Alcohol, Car accident, Abortion, and Addiction

erint251's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I'm not crying, you're crying.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Death, Death of parent, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Abortion

Minor: Body shaming, Sexual content, and Alcoholism