Reviews tagging 'Excrement'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

68 reviews

phdoyle's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

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

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

gagereadsstuff's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Grief and Car accident

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Excrement, Mental illness, and Vomit

rotatinglibrary's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Rape, Excrement, Drug use, Abortion, Vomit, and Drug abuse

mpurdy's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

So well written. I was moved to tears in many parts. It was difficult to read her raw storytelling of her mother's journey battling cancer and her ultimate loss. Her writing was so effortless that it made the discussions on grief, guilt, regret easy to feel and understand. 
I loved the descriptions of food and how she connected not only to her mother but to her korean roots through it.
I just wanted to give Michelle a hug 🫂 and tell her how proud her mother would be of her. And how we all make mistakes as adolescents and young adults but its how we grow from them.
What a great start to the new year.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Body horror, Excrement, Terminal illness, Vomit, Car accident, and Medical content

olivia_piepmeier's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

I had heard this was good so I started reading it and couldn't stop. Zauner has a way with words, capturing adolescence, grief, the honesty of emotions, and challenging parental relationships indescribably well. Further, she ties her story up so neatly with the loss of her mother. It would be easy to stray from the focus but especially with our relationship with our parents, they work their way into many facets of our lives. Anyone that has lost someone, particularly to cancer, will have some sort of hard time with this. In summary, it's a devastating read written with heart and honesty.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Body shaming, Excrement, and Alcoholism

Minor: Car accident

deetabz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcohol, Mental illness, Racism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Car accident, Drug use, Medical content, and Abortion

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Excrement, and Infidelity

montyalmoro's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Excrement, and Medical content

dustghosts's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, Excrement, Infidelity, and Racism

pun1sher's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad

5.0

There are many things I'd like to write about this book but most of them seem cheap and fake.
I guess this is the kind of book you call "raw" "emotional" or something along the lines, but i won't do it.
This is a book that knocks a real punch into you. Reading it felt kind of like watching a movie, i can't pinpoint exactly why. There were many moments where I was on the verge of tears, am I even now as I write down my review. 
The formula was different than what I expected. From the blurb i thought each chapter would start with a trip to H Mart. Instead it's more of a continuous story.
I have one regret on this book and it's my poor vocabulary regarding various products. I wasn't able to imagine many dishes because simply I've never heard about or taste many ingredients, and even if i did, i wasn't aware of their English names. But this is just my personal struggle as a non native speaker 
This book also provides a special bond with Michelle's music. as you read into many of her lyrics you can track were they came from and why. It's one of a kind experience 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Abortion, Excrement, and Vomit

mariahlindz's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Well, for starters, ow. I don't know what else to say. If you've lost a loved one you will cry. If food is a love language for you like it is for so many, you will be inspired, but you will also cry. Lots of crying will be involved. Be nice to your fucking mom, dude.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Excrement and Vomit

Minor: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Car accident, and Drug use