Reviews tagging 'Blood'

A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney

10 reviews

tinkerbell2706's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny inspiring sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Alcohol, Suicide, Terminal illness, Vomit, Blood, Cancer, Child death, Car accident, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, and Chronic illness

dhiby's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

very touching. i am always a sucker for stories involving the love a parent has for a child, which was discussed or portrayed in this book. i cant imagine the amount of pain the author went through and of course i look up to how he handled it all selflessly. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Excrement, Child death, Chronic illness, Medical content, Cancer, and Blood

jen_again's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Alcoholism, Blood, and Drug use

theyellowbrickreader's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Blood, Medical content, Child death, Alcoholism, Terminal illness, and Mental illness

Moderate: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

jourdanicus's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

5.0

I picked this up because I was in the mood for a book to make me cry, but this... Didn't? I actually laughed more than I cried?

I really appreciated Delaney's straightforward writing style. I have lost pets, and my pets feel like my children, but I know I will NEVER know what it's like to lose a human child. Delaney doesn't try to make you understand. He just tells his story as it was for him with little embellishment, and it's such good writing.

I don't give memoirs (or any book, honestly) objective star ratings because that feels unfair, I'm not a professional critic and haven't read enough to know how this compares to other memoirs. But this was easily a 5 star read for me.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Blood

grise's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Vomit and Blood

Minor: Alcoholism

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

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

 - I am writing this review of A HEART THAT WORKS while curled up crying on the floor forever. What an incredible, painful, beautiful gift to the world this book is.
- I knew Delaney primarily as a comedian on Twitter, and that joyful, weird spirit of his is present in this writing, even on such a horrific topic.
- And Delaney does not hold back on the unending horrors of what he and his family went through. This is one the hardest books I’ve ever read, and I don’t even have children.
- Through it all, even as Delaney unleashes this primal scream, he still shows us the love and joy he found in his son. This book is full of pain, yes, but we also learn about all the little everyday things about a child that only their parent knows, and I will carry a small piece of Henry with me now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Medical content, Pregnancy, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Alcoholism, Blood, Car accident, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Vomit

sam_sim's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Blood and Medical content

Minor: Vomit

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