Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

33 reviews

minibean24's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Truly beautiful prose and a gut wrenching story. Chanel tells her story with so much truth, humor, and brutal honesty. Everyone should read this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence

coderedkira's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

Powerful. Necessary. Thank you Chanel!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Sexual content, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Rape, Sexual assault, and Grief

izzyf16's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Rape

Moderate: Bullying, Racial slurs, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mass/school shootings

carmenacc's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Rape

marianacorrea's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

this should be an obligatory read for absolutely everyone, i’ve never learned so much from a book before

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, and Rape

biblioghoul's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Bullying, and Rape

Minor: Death, Gun violence, Racism, Suicide, and Mass/school shootings

zakcebulski's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Cursing, Body shaming, Bullying, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Grief, and Medical content

deborahsebastian's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexism

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Mass/school shootings

zahraa_aj's review against another edition

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

5.0

“I did not come into existence when he harmed me. She found her voice! I had a voice, he stripped it, left me groping around blind for a bit, but I always had it. I just used it like I never had to use it before. I do not owe him my success, becoming, he did not create me. The only credit Brock can take is for assaulting me, and he could never even admit to that.”

I've had my eye on this book for over 8 months now, thinking I'm going to read it when I'm emotionally capable of handling the topic, but alas there's no such time in the near future. I wish I could give this to the man who circled my coworkers & me, following us to our workplace, speeding away only when we tried taking a picture of the plate number. Or to the two boys who were too young to be on a motorbike, but old enough to yell, "wh*res", as a group of us walked back from lunch. I wish I could give it to the men who whisper, call & shout cruelties to me in the street, while I'm expected to walk my path, unchanged, as their words simmered inside me.

When I was younger, I had so much respect for people in the justice system, I thought that everything could be solved if only we had the right laws, the right people enforcing them. In my naive mind, witnessing the corruption consume members of the legal system felt like seeing a mascot taking off their costume, seeing them for the first time, and thinking, "Oh, you're a person." I knew they were a person, but I guess I never realized it.

Looking at the reviews, I was surprised by the number of them mentioning how this book got "too political" at the end when the elections were mentioned in a paragraph, and the challenges victims of police violence were facing in the legal system were brought rightfully, as the frustration and accusations Miller faced in the legal system despite being the victim, mirrored that of theirs.

In the end, I don't think I can really "review" this book so I'm writing this for myself because I view it as a memory, and a yet-to-end story a friend told me as we sat on a bench in a garden.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Sexual assault, Sexism, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Bullying and Mass/school shootings

achablani's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Bullying, and Sexual assault