Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family by Mitch Albom

3 reviews

book_addict's review

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

melancholymegs's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Medical content, Death of parent, and Medical trauma

Minor: Racism, Infertility, and Vomit

lacunaboo's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

This book had me in tears, but it was well worth it because Chika's life deserves to be recognized. I enjoyed learning about this little girl and her big personality. The author also includes inspirational lessons on parenting/family/love. I did not agree with everything pertaining to the Alboms' thoughts about Chika's medical providers, but these things were always treated in a respectful way in this book, with the acknowledgment that no one in these situations knows the "right" thing to do. 

Thank you, Mr. Albom, for sharing Chika's story with us. 

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Abandonment, Death of parent, Infertility, and Vomit