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kimbyy's review
4.0
really very moving …. not sure that i can comment on it from a non CWL 315: Literature And Medicine perspective until after class so i will write something better later!
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it's later & i'm writing this review instead of writing my discussion post about this!
this was quite nice to read. i didn't realize how mixed media or whatever the format was because it just felt like a look into lorde's mind (& i kind of think the same way -- in journal entries, in nonlinear thought processes, and in the kind of Looking-Back-On-This-Experience way). i feel like cancer has been one of the ideas that i've been desensitized to just because of how many people around me have been touched by it (which is a horrible, horrible thing) and it was just eye opening to read about lorde's experience in such an honest and open way.
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it's later & i'm writing this review instead of writing my discussion post about this!
this was quite nice to read. i didn't realize how mixed media or whatever the format was because it just felt like a look into lorde's mind (& i kind of think the same way -- in journal entries, in nonlinear thought processes, and in the kind of Looking-Back-On-This-Experience way). i feel like cancer has been one of the ideas that i've been desensitized to just because of how many people around me have been touched by it (which is a horrible, horrible thing) and it was just eye opening to read about lorde's experience in such an honest and open way.
candidlycaitlyn_mph's review
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
baylee_ro's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
4.5
juliloops's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
francienolans's review against another edition
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
3.5
going back & forth on a 3.5-4 for my rating. i enjoyed the books. it was a quick easy read. i thought it would have more journal entries. one part that rly stuck with me was her going to her doctor's office not wearing a prosthetic breast & how the nurse told her off because it brought down the "morale" for other breast cancer patients & it just rly struck me because it's like it's her decision not to wear one & i truly don't think the other women in the waiting room noticed because let's be real when you're going thru something sometimes the world around you isn't there so it's very demoralizing to tell someone off for something that stupid. the book was very insightful.