Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Shrill by Lindy West

11 reviews

ttorisaurus's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Fatphobia, Body shaming, and Bullying

Moderate: Rape, Sexual harassment, Grief, Abortion, Cancer, Death, Sexual assault, Death of parent, and Sexual violence

Minor: Blood and Vomit

wixojord's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Rape, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, and Abortion

shea_proulx's review

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Body shaming, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Sexual harassment

Minor: Abortion, Rape, Grief, and Death of parent

emmettdakool's review against another edition

challenging funny hopeful medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia, Death of parent, Cancer, Bullying, Body shaming, Abortion, Rape, Sexism, Misogyny, and Grief

sammantha's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Misogyny, Cancer, Death of parent, Grief, Abortion, Pregnancy, Fatphobia, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Rape

greatexpectations77's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

4.75

I loved this book. It's quite funny, but not all fun because Ms. West addresses a lot of really tough subjects. But I love reading her thoughts.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, and Misogyny

Moderate: Gaslighting, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Terminal illness

brookey8888's review

hopeful informative inspiring mysterious medium-paced

4.0

I related to a lot of what was discussed in this book. Some of it I obviously couldn’t relate to and I understand why she wrote about it, but it wasn’t what I was expecting to read about. This is also very much not intersectional( I feel like I’m using the wrong word). It’s kind of white feminism, but not if that makes sense. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Abortion, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, and Sexism

anniefwrites's review

dark funny inspiring reflective fast-paced

There's no doubt that Lindy West has a strong, impassioned voice. Her honesty in the face of a great deal of trauma is really remarkable. I especially loved the parts where she untangled the knots of grief and lessons learned in childhood. Some of the essays just made me... so angry?? Which I guess is the point, but man, I can't believe so many humans are so awful. The story about talking to her troll was really moving, and I wish it was a more common occurrence. A solid, bold read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Grief, Hate crime, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual harassment, and Terminal illness

jmcordero's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual harassment, and Body shaming

Moderate: Abortion, Bullying, Cursing, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, and Sexual violence

Minor: Cancer, Racism, Infidelity, and Alcohol

meghan's review

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Sexism, Misogyny, Death of parent, Abortion, Grief, Death, Cancer, and Body shaming