Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair

36 reviews

itsgnat's review against another edition

informative sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Cancer, Bullying, Death of parent, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Grief, Pregnancy, Rape, and Sexual violence

anjasshelf's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Addiction, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Rape, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, Animal death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Fatphobia, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

kilonshele's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Rape, Toxic relationship, and Chronic illness

Minor: Suicide attempt and Death of parent

acresofclams's review

hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Violence, Rape, Sexual violence, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, and Pregnancy

Minor: Death, Dementia, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

paigicus's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Rape, and Medical content

Moderate: Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Death, Animal death, and Death of parent

Minor: Toxic relationship, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Adult/minor relationship

cinderrunner's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

A beautiful and insightful read. I wouldn't consider myself a Selma Blair fan and have always been indifferent to her as a performer. This book is a worthwhile read for anyone who enjoys powerfully human memoirs. It completely stands on its own merits regardless of Blair's stardom. This book was so painful yet beautiful. There is a rather lyrical quality to Blair's writing that I adore. I loved her honesty, self reflection, and openness with the intense hurt of her life. This is very much a book about the struggles of addiction, illness (both phsyical and mental), and finding a sense of belonging/home in a world that can be really painful. Please do check trigger warnings for this one cause the author has been through some rough stuff. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Sexual violence, Self harm, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Death of parent, Chronic illness, Sexual assault, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

melissa_h's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

I have been wanting to pick up this book for a while now. Selma was not an actress I watched but I certainly knew of her and her career. 

I really appreciate her oppenness. I want to watch her documentary 😭 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Eating disorder, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, and Chronic illness

lexa's review against another edition

5.0

Emotional and raw and heartbreaking and beautiful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, and Vomit

mjscooke's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75

A solid decades spanning memoir that explores grief, health, assault, and addiction amongst other things. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, Chronic illness, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Death of parent, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, Eating disorder, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic

katieconklin's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

I knew almost nothing about Selma Blair before reading this book-- I just thought she was a cool and chic it-girl of the early 2000s. But man, she is pretty weird. Her honesty in this book is incredible, major content warnings in this one. Listening to the audiobook was a bit jarring due to the sheer amount of times she cried while reading it (it felt like at least once a chapter, typically more). I did find the book very interesting, but since I'm not a huge fan of hers it didn't have a lasting impact on me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Chronic illness, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Drug use, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Eating disorder, and Sexual violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Body shaming