Reviews tagging 'War'

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

28 reviews

clarabooksit's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

3.5

I liked Minor Feelings but I didn’t love it. Some essays really struck me, especially Hong’s discussions of racism, pop culture—loved her dismantling of Moonrise Kingdom—being Asian America and Korean, and how she confronts race head on, but others I struggled with—notably the essay about art school and her two college friends had some excellent parts but overall didn’t work for me.

Her writing is bold, judgmental and brutally honest. I admired her consistent interrogation of her own thoughts and motives as she ruthlessly questioned those of others. I definitely think it’s worth a read but it’s not a new favorite.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racism, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Murder, Violence, and War

Minor: Physical abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, and Rape

minty_3's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Toxic friendship

Moderate: War, Miscarriage, Rape, Racism, Sexual violence, and Genocide

lilybear3's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

This book wasn't what I was expecting, but in a good way.  This book was a collection of essays and felt like a memoir. She talks about Asian Americans in history that I had never hear of until now and I am so glad that I could learn more about them.  As an Asian American myself, this book made me do a lot of self-reflecting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Hate crime, Drug use, Death, Racism, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Murder, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and War

Moderate: Colonisation

Minor: Suicide

kayladaila's review against another edition

challenging informative sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Murder, Rape, Racism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexism, Sexual violence, Violence, and War

Minor: Dementia, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Suicidal thoughts

carmenreads's review against another edition

emotional sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, and War

annabella's review against another edition

medium-paced

4.25

So many things I felt I related to but never found the words to express myself. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Rape and War

ntvenessa's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Exceptional. This collection of essays is unbearably precise, striking the most vulnerable of emotions with masterful, incisive language. I feel my own untangled, dark and shameful vulnerabilities cast under a bright white spotlight to be dissected with great precision, confidence, and relevance. What does it mean to be Asian in a neoliberal, colonised, modern world? Why am I enraged and yet why am I invisible? This is essential reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Emotional abuse, Xenophobia, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Racism, Murder, and Mental illness

Moderate: Addiction, War, Violence, Torture, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexism, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Rape, Misogyny, Hate crime, Grief, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Dysphoria, Drug use, Drug abuse, Chronic illness, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Antisemitism, Eating disorder, and Islamophobia

jacquelineyu's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

Beautifully written, poetic reflections on race, history, and life. Learned a lot about Asian American history and finally found the words for  phenomenons that I have experienced personally as an Asian American. Later chapters didn’t hit as hard as the beginning ones and the organization was occasionally confusing, but I generally really enjoyed the read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, and War