Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Easy Beauty by Chloé Cooper Jones

10 reviews

cococorycollins's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Ableism, Animal death, and Body shaming

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Pregnancy, and Infidelity

breadbummer's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

No wonder this book got so much hype! I truly don't have any critiques about this book. I didn't think I would be so engrossed in a travel memoir (StoryGraph reading challenge moment), but this is superbly written, and every story merges perfectly with their designated flashbacks. There were times at which I was wondering what the connection was between the two, but Jones never failed to wrap it up nicely and top it with a bow.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Ableism, Animal death, and Body shaming

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Minor: Abortion, Alcohol, Confinement, Gun violence, and Genocide

Very graphic deaths of dogs in two different chapters. If this is something that bothers you, either prepare yourself when she first discusses her parents being in Kathmandu and after she visits the Killing Fields, or find a way to skip these segments entirely.

creativerunnings's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Ableism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, and Pregnancy

directorpurry's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Ableism, Animal death, Genocide, Medical content, Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Child death, Medical trauma, Blood, Chronic illness, and Death

Moderate: Murder and War

Minor: Infertility and Rape

clarabooksit's review

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Pregnancy, Animal death, Ableism, and Body shaming

Moderate: Classism, Sexual content, Grief, Infertility, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Genocide and Misogyny

dogbuttsandbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Blood

Minor: Addiction

alayamorning's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Genocide, and Animal death

Moderate: Pregnancy

caseythereader's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual content, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Blood, Infertility, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Ableism, Alcohol, Medical content, and War

Moderate: Car accident, Confinement, Abortion, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and War

purplepenning's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Ableism, and Body shaming

Moderate: Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, and Chronic illness

Minor: Pregnancy and Toxic friendship

ashleyvharris's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

“If love is the name of the pursuit of the whole, what is the name given to finding it? I close my eyes and focus on the feeling of the world getting a little wider.”

I had never heard or read any of Chloé’s writing before Easy Beauty, but I think there’s nothing I want more in this moment than to sit with her and talk for hours. She writes in a way that makes me think I could be her friend, as if reading her memoir has somehow enlightened me to her uncensored, unedited personality.

Chloé’s memoir jumps around to different stories and vignettes of her life, some brief glimpses and others detailed adventures or conversations. Each one offers another piece of the puzzle, another step toward understanding. Standout passages include her trip to Cambodia, the Richard Serra exhibit, and the magic show in Prospect Park.

The beauty of this book is that it while it exposes the rawness of Chloé’s disability, it ultimately whittles us all down to the fears, faults, and difficult beauty we hold inside ourselves.

I really think Chloé expresses it perfectly in the final pages, “Beauty helped us be attentive to a world outside ourselves.” In a world where we are all so caught up in ourselves, our anxieties, our inadequacies, our fears… beauty allows us to step outside of that. 

Reading Chloé’s words, I could feel my world getting a little wider.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming

Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Minor: Pregnancy