Reviews tagging 'Death'

A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

5 reviews

tenderbench's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative relaxing tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Colonisation, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, and Gun violence

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Racism, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Homophobia, Mental illness, Medical content, Grief, Death, Hate crime, Genocide, Colonisation, Gun violence, Murder, Blood, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Violence, Suicide attempt, and Police brutality

Minor: Infidelity, Rape, and Transphobia

vigil's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.75

this is a very personal book, deeply entrenched in his own experience that makes it difficult to rate.

billy-ray belcourt has a very strong and specific command of language, (in a way that likely intentional, judging by a later entry) that is enticing but also difficult to comprehend due its strong roots in academia. he has a very immersive writing style that transports you directly into his brain, for better or for worse. 

for personal enjoyment, it’s a 3 star, but i respect the author and what he’s doing with this collection that i bumped it up to a 4.75.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Rape, Genocide, Medical content, Medical trauma, Police brutality, Racism, Violence, Death, Grief, Homophobia, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia

deadpoetsam's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Homophobia, Grief, Colonisation, Murder, Toxic relationship, Cultural appropriation, Racism, and Sexual content

Moderate: Gun violence, Hate crime, Religious bigotry, Child death, Suicide attempt, Mass/school shootings, Police brutality, Sexism, and Suicide

Minor: Death

earthbound_edits's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Homophobia, Racism, and Death