Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Making It So by Patrick Stewart

5 reviews

kirkspockreads's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Infidelity, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

grey_jayne's review

funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

This memoir is quality and I highly recommend the audiobook, read by Sir Patrick Stewart himself and he acts out so many bits and does all the voices, it's gotta be the superior version.

There are many years to cover but at 19 hours, this is probably the longest memoir I've read. At a certain point, some of the theater stuff begins to blur together. With Stewart reading, it was all part of the fun but I would have found those sections harder to get through in print.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Child abuse

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Classism, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Animal death

Moderate: Misogyny, War, Pandemic/Epidemic, Xenophobia, Cultural appropriation, and Racial slurs

just_one_more_chapter_ok's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

squinnittowinit's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

I don't normally enjoy memoirs, but I'm a fan of Sir Patrick Stewart, so I had to see what this book was all about. I definitely recommend the audiobook; listening to it in his own voice is a great experience with how good of an actor he is. He does accents, voices, dramatic timing, and so much more.

While I was interested in his stories overall and hadn't heard any of them, being a very casual fan, there were a few that I wasn't quite sure why he included them. They weren't bad, they just felt like non-sequitors in the grand scheme of the book's narrative.

That being said, I appreciated how Patrick Stewart told these stories from his life with humility and respect for those involved. While he did grow up with a certain amount of prejudice, he tells these stories now as someone who has since grown into a very accepting and progressive-minded individual. Of course, there's always the possibility that something is being omitted or falsified, but even if this were a true work of fiction it would still be a good book to me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Grief, Alcohol, Mental illness, Cursing, Infidelity, Sexual content, Addiction, Misogyny, and Racism

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Murder, War, Dementia, Drug use, Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Antisemitism, Cancer, and Car accident