Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

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

25 reviews

stefanies_books's review against another edition

DNFed at 46% 
I think as individual columns this works but as a collection it felt condescending and repetitive. If I could have read one chapter a week (instead of a library loan) it might have been a better experience but I’ll also be fine not finishing this one. IMO this is blog content that should stay that way rather than published in a book format 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Rape, Infertility, Death of parent, Abortion, Suicide, Miscarriage, and Emotional abuse

nuuamuikkunen's review

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Incest, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Drug use, and Rape

pennyforyourthoughts's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

I don’t know exactly how to review this book as it’s a collection of advice columns that are only connected with overarching narratives from Sugar and not much else. Some sections made me cry while others felt like a slog to get through. Not all of the advice will impact everyone the same. I think I did the book a disservice by pushing myself to read it all rather rapidly as taking the sections in more bite-sized chunks when you need them may have been the better option. Overall I enjoyed the realness that this collection provided, showing humanity in all its different forms.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Alcoholism, and Child death

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

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

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.

melissakoe20's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abandonment and Death of parent

sophiegrubben's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective

5.0

life-affirming 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Incest

Moderate: Abortion, Body shaming, Cancer, Death of parent, and Child abuse

amberlfaris's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Panic attacks/disorders, Homophobia, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Car accident, and Child death