Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

2 reviews

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative lighthearted reflective relaxing slow-paced

3.25

The way the author talks about their connection to nature is truly evocative and beautiful.  There’s a familial component to it that, at first, was comforting in that you can find a community all around you if you would but care to look.  But then it began to center motherhood and the assumption that if female, you too will be a mother and experience these things, which was unfortunate.  It became a repetitive narrative that dragged itself to the finish line.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cannibalism, Genocide, Racism, Abandonment, Death, Pregnancy, Animal death, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Cancer, Animal cruelty, Classism, Misogyny, Xenophobia, and Religious bigotry

kaimetcalfe's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Grief, Animal death, and Colonisation

Moderate: Chronic illness, Alcoholism, Forced institutionalization, Animal cruelty, Death, Blood, and Colonisation