Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

95 reviews

onlyonebookshelf's review against another edition

challenging inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

aqtbenz's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Toxic friendship, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Suicide attempt

orangegirl22's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective tense slow-paced

4.5

Hong is an amazing writer, you are taken into the worlds she creates in her essays fully. With dark and powerful themes this book leaves you ready to listen and listen until either you can’t anymore because you have to do something else or because it has ended. Hong’s writing, above all, is brutally honest. It’s clear that unless she had to (due to the wishes of friends) she was completely and utterly truthful. It is now one of my favorite autobiographical works. Yet, I wish we knew more about certain individuals, and stories.

I wanted to know more about her friend from college, her family, and her immediate post-grad experience, but I also recognize I’m being greedy. When you read something this good, that tends to happen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Racism, Sexual violence, Murder, War, and Suicide

levc's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Murder, and Rape

allisonplus's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, and Murder

herceia's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

3.0

Not a memoir like I expected and i had a hard time connecting the people in the author's lives to the greater story theme, but it was very informative and spoke a lot of the things that i've always had in my mind

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Racism, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Gaslighting and Emotional abuse

deetabz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Blood, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Murder, Violence, Rape, Racism, Racial slurs, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death, Hate crime, and War

Moderate: Colonisation, Police brutality, Bullying, Cultural appropriation, and Toxic friendship

souplover2001's review against another edition

4.0

all these minor feelings ARE majorly getting to me now.... planning on rereading soon to take some notes and annotate !!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and War

Minor: Suicide

questingnotcoasting's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

This book was definitely too clever for me but I feel like I still got a lot out of it. It's a collection of essays which I found really interesting but I also got a bit lost sometimes. Cathy Park Hong is a poet and some of her writing was a bit dense for me and some of the concepts went over my head. However I'm glad I read it and I don't think I've read another book like it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Hate crime, Murder, Xenophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, and Sexual assault

misscoffeereads's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism