Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair

28 reviews

millywebster's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Death, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Medical content, Antisemitism, Sexual violence, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Addiction, and Rape

Minor: Pregnancy

itschelseaw's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

Selma Blair is an actress I grew up loving for her roles in Legally Blonde and Cruel Intentions. I had no idea her life was so difficult and rife with personal tragedies until this book. Hearing her read it made it that much more emotional; you could hear the times when she worked to compose herself, when she was protecting herself from her story, and when she was delighted by what she was talking about.
Overall a good celebrity memoir!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Alcoholism, Sexual assault, and Medical content

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

kshertz's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

3.5

It was fascinating to hear her life story. I love that she’s always wanted to be an author and took us through her mom, her love life and her diagnosis of MS especially. I enjoyed learning more about her and I like that she appears to have grown up with the diagnosis. I am happy to have read and learned from her story. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Medical content, Body horror, Alcohol, and Chronic illness

zehrrz's review

challenging emotional funny medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, and Rape

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Eating disorder

funkyauntjules's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

so incredible. i had been wanting to read this for months after picking it up and i'm so glad i finally got to. blair's style is just so visceral, clear, and open. she cracked herself right open to write this! the true theme of labels and language and how it connects to her relationships (her mother, her son, herself) is so beautiful. i absolutely loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Alcoholism

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

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

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.25

 - I didn't know much about Selma Blair before starting this book, other than having seen her in a few movies and knowing about her MS diagnosis. Her memoir takes readers inside what has so far been a fairly private life, and I'll remember it forever.
- This book is a hard read. Blair has been through a lot in her life. I also read the audiobook, read by Blair herself, and she breaks into tears at many points in the story.
- However, MEAN BABY also delivers on the celebrity front. Blair name drops with abandon, and takes us with her to fancy award show parties, photo shoots, and to hang out with the likes of Carrie Fisher and Karl Lagerfeld. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Sexual harassment, Vomit, Ableism, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Suicide attempt

leighannebfd3b's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Ableism, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Grief, Pregnancy, and Sexual assault

megang519's review

dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

The memoir I didn't know I needed until I cracked it open! Beautifully written, vulnerable, and enlightening.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death, Medical content, Sexual violence, Drug use, Self harm, Body shaming, Rape, Pregnancy, and Sexual assault

Minor: Animal death and Death of parent