Reviews tagging 'Death'

Strong Female Character by Fern Brady

32 reviews

veelaughtland's review

challenging dark funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Drug use, Infidelity, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, and Physical abuse

zara89's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Drug use, Ableism, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Domestic abuse, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Addiction, Alcohol, Eating disorder, Sexual content, and Death

Minor: Bullying and Vomit

lennie_reads's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Ableism

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Classism, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pandemic/Epidemic, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Minor: Biphobia, Vomit, Alcohol, Drug use, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Eating disorder, and Excrement

fluffy1st's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Self harm, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Eating disorder, Drug use, Death, and Bullying

lbelow's review

5.0

Powerful and powerfully relatable memoir. Prior to reading, I was pretty sure I'm not autistic, but so many experiences in this book make me wonder. Maybe that was why I glommed onto this book so hard. Then again, it could just be the engaging and open way Fern Brady writes. This book discusses some heavy topics but, maybe because of the light, casual tone, it didn't feel like a dark book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cursing, Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, Fatphobia, Biphobia, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Body shaming, Drug use, Suicide attempt, Sexism, Gaslighting, Violence, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Alcohol, Self harm, Ableism, and Child abuse

charliereadsthebooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

Fern Brady leaves no stone unturned here when it comes to her autistic experience. As an autistic person myself, the informative element of the book was eye-opening, and I'll no doubt be thinking about it for a long time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Self harm

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

mads_jpg's review against another edition

challenging dark funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Really interesting memoir about life as an autistic woman, I'm a big fan of Fern Brady's comedy and knew about her diagnosis, but was surprised to see this was the main focus of the book. Really well written and very funny, tempted to listen to the audiobook too since I spent most of this book trying to read it in her voice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Classism, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Alcohol, Grief, Mental illness, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Domestic abuse, Lesbophobia, Biphobia, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Physical abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Police brutality, Emotional abuse, Racism, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, Sexual content, Addiction, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, and Misogyny

bb8isbbgr8t's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Self harm, Gaslighting, Death, Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment, Biphobia, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Ableism

aquariusisms's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

Ugh I was really hoping this would be a new favorite, but unfortunately the amount of fatphobic descriptions of other people and "jokes" about  bodies/fatness made this mostly fall flat for me. I did really enjoy hearing about the author's experience as an autistic woman who grew up in Scotland, and I think her perspective is an important and interesting one, but I just wish she hadn't leaned so hard on fatphobia as a way to be "funny". None of those lines were important to include, and if she had hired some sensitivity readers they probably could've told her that. I think with those edits this might be a book I'd rate 4 or 4.5 stars, and just a better book in general- which makes it even worse because it had the potential to be so good :/

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Violence, Self harm, Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Fatphobia, Death, Body shaming, Classism, Bullying, Mental illness, Alcohol, Physical abuse, Eating disorder, and Drug abuse

Minor: Vomit and Pandemic/Epidemic

bearystarry's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.75

I feel incredibly seen by this memoir. I’m… probably going to reread and annotate this almost immediately.

Just wish there was less fatphobia. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Violence, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Eating disorder, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Grief, Self harm, Drug use, Death, Cursing, Adult/minor relationship, Ableism, Abandonment, Toxic friendship, Infidelity, Bullying, and Alcohol

Moderate: Police brutality, Sexual violence, Fatphobia, and Vomit

Minor: Rape, Racism, and Pandemic/Epidemic