Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair

33 reviews

skysbooknook's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Addiction

wendym3's review

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

Though some subject matter is hard, her tone is reflective, empowered.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Addiction

Minor: Suicide attempt, Eating disorder, Medical trauma, and Rape

gabbyroarty's review

emotional funny inspiring slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction and Alcoholism

Minor: Sexual assault

decembermagpie's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Deportation, Medical content, Rape, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Grief, Eating disorder, Ableism, Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Suicide attempt, and Mental illness

leweylibrary's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

A really solid celeb memoir! I had no idea this actor had been through so much and had that much interaction with "bigger" celebrities. My only qualms were the large amounts of "omg my child is the greatest thing that ever happened to me" bleh and how... inauthentic? the author/narrator's crying in the audiobook felt 😬 sorry, it just felt really sudden and forced every time it happened (which was a lot) and it bothered me 🤷‍♀️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Rape

internationalreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Blood, Cursing, Medical content, Alcoholism, Death, Addiction, Death of parent, Drug use, Eating disorder, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, and Rape

mereileen's review

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Chronic illness, Alcoholism, and Rape

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Drug use, Eating disorder, and Abortion

Minor: Medical content, Cancer, Grief, and Sexual assault

claudianeureads's review

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Chronic illness, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Sexual assault

victorial's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Eating disorder, Alcoholism, Sexual assault, and Chronic illness

thenovelbookshelf's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

A beautiful, heart-breaking, heart-wrenching, emotionally compelling memoir of Selma Blair's life from the early years to now.
  
We all like to think that stardom and celebrity is easy, beautiful, graceful, healthy. This proves that you never know what people have gone through in their lives.
  
From the first drink at age 3, to daily drinking to numb the pain from unbeknownst MS, Selma Blair tells a frank & honest recollection of her memories.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, and Addiction

Moderate: Child abuse, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Animal death, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Rape

Minor: Dementia, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, and Toxic relationship