Reviews tagging 'Blood'

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

3 reviews

magicalsocks's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

5.0

(6/19/24)

...& this is how i slipped into the
shed just barely & watched through the cracks
& ate the only sandwich I hadn't abandoned
in the pursuit & watched five cops out of breath
collapsing into the grass field & shaking their heads
& there is the casting away of demons into a herd
though I can't recall which animal but maybe you can

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"But let it be known that some of us never once dreamed of leaving. Never thought about making it out of any place as glorious as this. Tell me if you have ever built a heaven out if nothing, and then tell me what it would take for you to look for a new one somewhere else."

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Hate crime, Police brutality, Gun violence, and Murder

Minor: Blood, Death of parent, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, and Death

sarahyjackson's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

Abdurraqib’s pitch perfect poetic prose winds its way through meditations on home, place, love, death, hate, fear, fury and, of course, basketball. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Police brutality, Racism, Gun violence, Grief, Child death, and Blood

uranaishi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Police brutality, and Racism

Moderate: Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Car accident, Abandonment, Death of parent, Murder, Gun violence, Hate crime, and Violence

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Slavery, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Classism, Drug use, Alcohol, Blood, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Confinement, Addiction, and Sexual content