Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed

22 reviews

storytimejess2's review against another edition

The second essay was about grieving a miscarriage 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Fatphobia

kaleidoscopic_roses's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Pregnancy, Grief, and Sexual assault

readbyroska's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

5.0

Read it if any of the following applies to you, and you can’t find your peace:

you’re feeling lost, hopeless, not good enough, deserving but unlucky, regretful, guilty, ashamed, disempowered, confused, heartbroken, lonely, isolated, alone, misunderstood, underachieving. 

Read if you are a partner, wife, husband, mother, father, boyfriend, girlfriend, daughter, son, child, friend, fuck buddy, teacher, student.

Read it if you don’t have anyone in your life who can love you and know you but still tell it to your straight. 

You will find something here for you, so sift through and find it.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Miscarriage, Infidelity, Dysphoria, Alcoholism, Toxic friendship, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Death, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Mental illness, Homophobia, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Suicide attempt, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Child death, Classism, Car accident, Religious bigotry, Bullying, Abortion, Incest, Addiction, Cancer, Transphobia, Rape, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Eating disorder, Drug use, and Drug abuse

throwback682's review against another edition

I got through the first 2-3 letters. I cringed when Sugar didn’t address medical fatphobia levied against a grieving mother. As a queer person I turned it off when Sugar talks about crying with joy at a Pride parade featuring police and republicans. I’m sure this book is beloved by many, but it’s certainly not for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Eating disorder, Miscarriage, Grief, and Homophobia

tiphtap's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Homophobia

koplomps's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Incest, and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Car accident, Child death, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Cancer, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Toxic friendship, Abortion, Bullying, Grief, Addiction, Abandonment, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Infertility

meecespieces's review against another edition

emotional hopeful fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Pedophilia

Moderate: Child abuse

fanchera's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Death, Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Abortion

tinyy's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

I think I desperately needed to hear this:

”There is nothing more boring and fruitless than a woman lamenting the fact that her stomach is round.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Animal death, Pedophilia, Death of parent, Death, Grief, and Incest

Moderate: Child death, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Self harm, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, and Rape

I definitely missed some trigger warnings but there were so many I can’t remember them. If I had known about them, I wouldn’t have read the book. It’s so heavy. Despite that, I know that it helped me a little bit, deal with some of the things that have happened to me.

marycage's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief