Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

93 reviews

hermione_gilmore's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Wow this book was just amazing I didn’t expect that. I can’t even tell you why but it just mesmerised me like it’s so well-written and everything that happens I don’t know just wow. I mean it’s horrible of course but still this was a really amazing book, definitely gonna reread it and would recommend it to literally everyone.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Death, and Grief

alexisgarcia's review

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

this was such an interesting book due to the intense feelings of grief paired with feeling numb. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Chronic illness, Medical content, Death, Grief, Blood, and Medical trauma

carolinemwatson's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, and Medical trauma

drrayeraye's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Medical trauma, and Medical content

leonormsousa's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, and Medical content

feelinwitchy's review

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Death

jessicablehman's review

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Medical content

snigd_ha's review

sad medium-paced

3.0

The writing was amazing. But what turned me off was the medical terms. I know it is very much important for the memoir because it is important to her. It's not her it's me. I'm the problem!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Death

cdua's review

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

The book has a writing style that I am obsessed with but one that also makes me feel like I have constantly lost my footing. In the collection of stories, I felt like many chapters were repetitions of one another or repeating similar information with different delivery. Specifically the middle chunk of the book felt like I really had to push through. Still, her reflections on grief were fascinating and I found her last few chapters to be particularly poignant. I think reading this before I have experienced any grief of my own gives me a false sense of distaste for the novel that I might not hold in the future. Maybe not. And warning that Didion always does seem to write a bit pretentiously about her life and can often come across as a bit privileged. Only writing all these as notes, I still enjoyed the book and her work. South and West is up next!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Death

Moderate: Child death

my_plant_library's review

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Chronic illness