Reviews tagging 'Rape'

The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

8 reviews

michaelion's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Very respectful of people with different minds. Very kind. Very well reseaeched into the intersections of people's lives and how their mental illnesses or impairities can / may be affected by outside factors. Very very, very real, living, loving book. 🥰 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Ableism, Classism, Grief, Mental illness, Self harm, Confinement, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Blood, Drug use, Fatphobia, Medical content, Police brutality, Forced institutionalization, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Car accident, Racial slurs, Violence, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Bullying, and Death

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Pandemic/Epidemic, Homophobia, Rape, Cancer, and Pedophilia

hail_archangel's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Drug abuse, Self harm, Alcoholism, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Bullying, Rape, and Blood

knupselmaus's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Alcoholism

Minor: Rape

funktious's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Amazing book. Absolutely loved it. I wanted to climb into the pages and give Annabelle a hug. A must read for those who loves books and stories and the potentiality of libraries and blank pages. Although I must now go and apologise to the books on my TBR shelves for leaving them there so long.

A small note of warning for Vocational Awe re librarianship though. As a librarian I feel duty bound to point out that we aren’t all left wing activists, there’s plenty of right wing librarians too that you wouldn’t necessarily know by looking at them and there’s also plenty of curmudgeonly arses in the profession. Like all professions, we contain multitudes. And yes, some of them are amazing bad ass women, but they’d be amazing bad ass women whatever job title they had. And the lack of respect and funding, plus constant attacks from the government / public will eventually break a lot of those women and it won’t be their fault if they stop going above and beyond for their users. Libraries are amazing, librarians are just people, and they both need your support. The end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Grief, Mental illness, Death of parent, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Rape

willows's review

challenging dark reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

 That was absolutely bonkers and had very memorable characters. Literally wack, it's been weeks and I still think about it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death of parent, and Mental illness

Moderate: Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Grief, Pregnancy, Self harm, and Violence

Minor: Rape, Racial slurs, Police brutality, and Racism

qqjj's review

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Fatphobia, Cannibalism, Rape, Grief, Bullying, Mental illness, Self harm, Death of parent, and Sexual assault

ukki's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Body shaming, Medical content, Addiction, and Fatphobia

Minor: Self harm, Police brutality, Rape, and Drug abuse

odyssia's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Car accident, Death of parent, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Police brutality, and Self harm

Minor: Mass/school shootings and Physical abuse