Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney

8 reviews

sineadlgull's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Suicide, Grief, Medical trauma, Cancer, Child death, Terminal illness, Death, Mental illness, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Pregnancy, and Addiction

lindsmann's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

What a special book. I've been a fan of Rob Delaney's online presence for a while (and wow that feels like a weird thing to say haha). But I originally knew of Rob through his Twitter account, and never really knew much about him outside of that. 

I heard about how his son had passed, and later found this book. I'm lucky in that I've never really had to deal with much grief in my life thus far. But I still found this book incredibly touching, heart-breaking, and thoughtful. 

While talking about an extremely emotional and delicate subject matter, Rob is still able to bring a levity to it that I can only imagine someone adept in the comedic arts could do—all without minimizing the seriousness of the topic. 

I cried, laughed, and cried some more while reading this. I can't recommend it enough. Read this book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Suicide, Death, and Addiction

The whole book is about grief and dealing withe the loss of a young child.

franklybookish's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Child death, Cancer, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Alcoholism, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Pregnancy, and Blood

annabunce's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Cancer, Medical content, Child death, Suicide, and Death

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Addiction

madisonfrank's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Cancer, Addiction, Chronic illness, Classism, Child death, Cursing, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Vomit, Death, Grief, and Medical trauma

brooklynchaise's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Wow. I’m blown away by my overall experience with this book. It was a beautifully crafted story about grief, with some stand-out passages that were touching, devastating and insightful. Not a book I will soon forget. Delaney bravely shared this story and his son, Henry, with us — I will think of them often 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cancer, Terminal illness, Grief, and Medical content

Moderate: Suicide, Vomit, and Blood

Minor: Car accident and Addiction

Detailed depiction of childhood cancer, the death of a child a grief

christynhoover's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

A very moving, gripping little book.

The honesty blows me away. 

The imagery in the FINAL PARAGRAPH was especially striking to me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Medical content, Cursing, Cancer, Grief, Terminal illness, and Vomit

Moderate: Addiction and Suicide

Minor: Sexual content

erinshinereads's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Vomit, and Addiction