Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney

13 reviews

laurencampbell's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Child death, Grief, Pregnancy, and Terminal illness

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

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

bella_cavicchi's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

Oh, I wasn't prepared to cry this morning. The writing here is not literary. It is—dare I say—somewhat crass. But it oozes love and sincerity and grief, the big human feelings that are intensified by such a tragedy of losing your son when he's only two.

Reading it has me wanting to give my parents a hug and thank them for loving me unconditionally. For that is all we can offer!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Child death, Cancer, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Pregnancy

lavenderlemonade's review against another edition

emotional funny sad

Beautiful, heartwrenching, honest, and funny. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cancer, Vomit, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Grief, Death, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Mental illness

ambersbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad fast-paced

5.0

Cried so hard I gave myself a headache. I expected the sadness and pain, but not the humor and beauty also contained within these pages. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Pregnancy

molliekneath's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

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

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