Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

14 reviews

culzean's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Torture, Vomit, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Body horror, Body shaming, Classism, Confinement, Medical content, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Cancer, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Grief, Violence, Self harm, and Sexual content

reckenreiter's review

challenging emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Difficult read, check trigger warnings 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Classism, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Confinement, Terminal illness, Torture, Addiction, Alcohol, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Misogyny, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship

kelseyr713's review

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Jennette is so strong and brave for writing this. I hope it has given her the start of some catharsis. I would love to read more from her someday. Her writing style is blunt but pulled me in. I appreciated her sense of humor too.

Massive content warnings for eating disorders (anorexia and bulimia), child abuse (detailed emotional abuse, along with her mother starting/encouraging her eating disorders and two brief mentions of sexual abuse), OCD compulsions, and alcoholism.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Grief, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Cancer, and Confinement

Moderate: Addiction, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, and Sexual content

Minor: Sexual assault, Infidelity, and Stalking

dianaschmidty's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

“We all crack up around her, harder than we would have if she wasn’t dying. There’s something about these life-or-death moments that just beg for some levity. They’re too difficult otherwise. Too excruciating.”

That quote from the book perfectly sums up the book. This books is some amazingly weird combination of traumatic, depressing, and hilarious. It is so well written and so emotional that I can’t even say anything more eloquent about it other than that it was perfect.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Body horror, Body shaming, Medical trauma, Addiction, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Cancer, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, and Vomit

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Stalking, Blood, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, and Suicidal thoughts