Reviews tagging 'Death'

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death by Caitlin Doughty

122 reviews

finnickdeservedbetter's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.5

Baby's (23yo's) first audiobook ✌🏻

This is my second book from Caitlin (I still need to read her memior but rest assured, it's on the shortlist). I read From Here To Eternity a couple years ago now but I still love it. It's my number one non-fiction rec that I'll badger anybody about that's unlucky enough to ask about it. Needless to say, I knew I was going to like this one.

I've watched Caitlin's YouTube videos for years. I nearly applied to mortuary school becuase of them. Because of that, I opted to listen to the audio version of Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs, despite never listening to audiobooks (hence this being my first). Now I haven't been completely converted...but I am running to listen to her other two books on audio now. 

My problem with audiobooks is that I can never get into them because the voices just aren't right somehow, and even if I can get into them, I get distracted too easily and stop listening on accident. The author being the narrator circumvents a lot of that. Her tone and cadence fits the writing perfectly (imagine that) and she held my attention easily as I listened to it all in one go.

My only complaint really, is that it's too short. I was left almost unsatisfied by the end because I just wanted more. Alas, back to the YouTube channel I go.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, and Blood

Moderate: Animal death and Death of parent

Minor: Cannibalism, Suicide, and Cancer

wildbookbear's review against another edition

3.0

Morbid, interesting, and funny. Some chapters are great, and others I had to skip parts of. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Medical content

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

halfling_stories's review against another edition

challenging funny informative lighthearted medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Cancer

easypeasy17's review against another edition

dark funny informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

This book is helpful for people who may not understand a lot about death. However, the writing was a little childish and felt very average overall.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

ceedy's review

dark funny informative lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Body horror, Death, and Gore

revoli's review against another edition

funny informative lighthearted medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, Death of parent, Animal death, and Medical content

laura_awkward_fox's review

funny informative lighthearted reflective fast-paced

5.0

The author included facts and funny quips to make this a book that talks about death in a light-hearted way. It helped me ease some fears and think harder about how I want my corpse treated.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Medical content

arrowlyn's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

savvy999's review

dark funny informative lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

Doughty’s signature wit and humor is condensed for younger(?) readers. Her honesty and frankness is always refreshing but here it definitely seems  less  potent and touching, but definitely because the target reading group is less intense than her previous books intended readership. Satiates curiosity and has great illustrations! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Medical content

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Cannibalism

a_novel_craving's review against another edition

funny informative inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Medical content, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Blood, Excrement, and Cannibalism