Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

1367 reviews

alexashabit's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer

Moderate: Emotional abuse

emmabjones's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Oh wow. I loved this very much. Not usually a fan of audiobooks but it was told beautifully and I wouldn’t have had it any other way. Seriously you should go listen to it on Spotify. I loved this book very much. 

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Abortion

psellars11's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, and Cancer

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Racism, Car accident, Terminal illness, Alcoholism, Addiction, and Body horror

hanandcheese's review

challenging emotional funny inspiring reflective relaxing slow-paced

4.25

i loved the way michelle focused so much of her relationship with her mom on food they shared and how it healed her after her mom’s death 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer

amkleintje's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Cancer, and Death of parent

kirstym25's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Car accident and Alcoholism

melissa_cosgrove's review

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Abortion and Rape

theotherlindsay's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Cancer

thursdd4y's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

One of the best memoirs I’ve read, so beautiful, raw and honest, and it completely speaks to me as someone who is mixed heritage.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Death of parent

linearev's review against another edition

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

4.75

So, I have been reading a lot of Korean and Japanese book lately, a campaign kicked off by the ‘before the coffee gets cold’ series and intensefied by Sayaka Murata. And so when I picked up this book, I fully expected to at least like it. 
However, I was not in the slightest, ready, for the heavy hitting force of the fact, that this is a self biography. A portrait of no the the Korean minority in USA but also of a complicated relationship between a mother and daughter. A generational tradition of complicated love and amazing food. It introduces the reader to the inner workings of someone who is both rather relatable as she is partly American, yet also somewhat astranged (from someone who grew up so differently). And yet, the brilliance of her writing reveals itself by letting us into her Korean side and guiding us through that world. It left me feeling both entertained yet also more knowledgeable each time I finished a chapter. Because somehow she balanced this complicated self portrait with humor which created the sort of entertainment often found in fictional books. 
All to say that this was very good. It sort of reminds me of the new and popular “I’m glad my mom died” which ironically takes the opposite stance of the maternal relation between the main people, yet left me with the same feeling of stepping out of the life of someone compelling and complicated. I liked it enormously and hope to read more from her soon.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Toxic relationship, Grief, Mental illness, Death of parent, Medical content, Vomit, and Terminal illness