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I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

821 reviews

nicola_scutt's review

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Eating disorder, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Cancer, Child abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, and Physical abuse

nikkxtine_'s review

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Dysphoria, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Cancer, Body shaming, Alcoholism, Vomit, Rape, and Grief

jessawilson's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.0

I would have preferred to hear more about her heading journey. The ending felt rushed to wrap things up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Self harm, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Death, Alcohol, Vomit, Mental illness, Abandonment, Body shaming, Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Grief, and Child abuse

solarel's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Gaslighting, Pedophilia, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Body shaming, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Medical content, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Self harm, and Terminal illness

kaylabsimon's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

4.5

Incredible, raw, and very sad at times. I am horrified that no adults in Jennette’s life stood up for her the way she needed them to. She’s an excellent author and I loved the way her prose changed over the length of the book. Getting more mature and complex as she ages in the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Eating disorder, Terminal illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Grief, and Toxic relationship

lucyrudd's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Cancer, Death, Body shaming, Mental illness, Sexual content, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Child abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse

meghan_w's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

This book. It feels weird to sum up in words what I think of someone else’s life story and traumas. For that reason, I’m not rating it, but I’ll try to talk more about how this book made me feel rather than critique the content. 

I’m Glad my Mom Died is a memoir about the author’s experience as a child star on Nickelodeon, having a narcissistic mother, eating disorders, religious deconstruction, OCD, and other things. I highly recommend listening to this 100% on audiobook at 1.0x. It’s worth taking the time to hear the author’s voice inflections as she tells her story. 

This book isn’t light. The quip on the cover saying it’s funny is weird to me because it’s not. It’s heavy and it’s dark at times. I waited to read this until I felt I was in a place to be able to handle it. It made me feel angry, baffled, but most of all sad. Not just for the author, but for so many who struggle with similar issues as her and her mother. What I deeply appreciate the most is she takes a good amount of the book to share her experiences in therapy. It’s a raw account of how hard therapy is and that healing is not a linear process. We don’t get it right immediately and sometimes it’s gets harder before it gets better. 

I’m so grateful for her willingness to share her story with the world. I took pieces I needed out of it for my own life. It was truly a privilege to listen to her story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Medical content, Self harm, Vomit, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Grief, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

nessasreadingnook24's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Death, Cursing, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Grief, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse

maziemouse's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.0

a must-read for anyone wanting insight into OCD disorders. absolutely commend McCurdy for her honesty and bravery in writing this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Self harm, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Grief, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, and Emotional abuse

orlagal's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Chronic illness, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Cancer, Infidelity, Grief, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Abandonment, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Bullying, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Self harm, and Toxic relationship