Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

100 år med Lenni och Margot by Marianne Cronin

41 reviews

laurenw's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

5.0

This was a delightful read. Lenni's voice draws you in, and then her and Margot's story fits in so well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child death, Death, Dementia, Medical content, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, and Pregnancy

Minor: Alcoholism, Blood, and Bullying

ambersbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

5.0

If I could give this book a million stars, I would. I didn’t believe everyone who said it was going to break me. I should have. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Child death and Cancer

allweseeorseem's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Grief, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Terminal illness

phangaea's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Adult/minor relationship, and Abandonment

cereads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Grief, Child death, and Cancer

Moderate: Dementia, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Miscarriage, and Vomit

catladyreads's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Mental illness, Medical content, and Pregnancy

planetarysilver's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

just realized i put the review for a different book than this one in here but whatever.

1000000/5 stars

in my probably 13 years of reading, i do not have any memory of crying over a book and definitely not as i was reading it. but thanks to this book, that’s not true anymore! there was a whole chapter near the end where i just had my shirt stuffed up my nostrils because i couldn’t stop my nose from running; then a couple pages later i had to stop reading for 30 seconds because i couldn’t see the words through my literal tears. then at the very end i watched teardrops fall from my face onto my bed. i didn’t even realize i was crying. this book has WRECKED me. highly recommend

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, and Medical content

reading_ladies_blog's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Abandonment, and Medical content

themixedpages's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Medical content, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Dementia

Moderate: Homophobia and Pregnancy

hollyd19's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

The Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot follows the friendship of the eponymous women who are both residents in the terminal ward of the  Glasgow Princess Royal Hospital. Lenni is seventeen and Margot is eighty-three, making their collective lives span one hundred years. When the pair meet in a patient art class, they decide to share their stories with one another as they paint matching vignettes.

I thought this book was so lovely. It's slow and soft, charming in a way that is unique to inter-generational relationships. The two help one another to process some of the harder bits of their past, but also help each other live fully in whatever time they've got left. Lenni and Margot get into light mischief and show each other deep respect as committed friends. It'd be a great pick for folks who enjoyed A Man Called Ove or Major Pettigrew's Last Stand. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Medical content

Moderate: Terminal illness, Mental illness, Death, Dementia, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Death of parent, Animal cruelty, and Vomit