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I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

370 reviews

maryamthehobbit's review against another edition

fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Child abuse

Moderate: Sexual violence

livimarie's review against another edition

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Vomit, Sexual violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Eating disorder, Body shaming, Cancer, Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Body shaming, and Stalking

Minor: Religious bigotry and Stalking

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

sarahkorn's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Fast, juicy read. Jennette McCurdy is a talented writer. She never minimized or hid her abuse, the way she tells it it's clear as day, yet she managed to tell her truth with humor and vivid detail, and I could picture every scene. I felt sad for Jennette but felt her resilience throughout the entire story. Overall this book deals with tough moments but is not particularly sad or dark -- still, check the trigger warnings on this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, and Vomit

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

hellokira's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Death of parent, Child abuse, Cancer, Sexual violence, Grief, Body shaming, Alcoholism, Violence, Terminal illness, Sexual harassment, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, and Self harm

clusterf_cked's review

dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Cursing, Vomit, Eating disorder, Child abuse, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Fatphobia, Cancer, Gaslighting, Body shaming, and Addiction

Minor: Blood

sandramarinis's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Great book. A very dark life story about Jennettes terrible upbringing with an extremely controlling narcisistic mother. I couldn't stop reading it. To anyone reading this book who relates to her story, please read Dr. Ramani Durasulvas books about navigating narcissism. I highly recommend them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Cancer, Sexual violence, Bullying, Sexual harassment, Grief, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Addiction, Cursing, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

rach_fornow's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

pairs well w/ 🍷: I would put this book up there with Heavy by Kiese Laymon and Hunger by Roxane Gay in being great memoir books that really go into the eating disorders the authors struggled with. 

Thoughts

Jennette really is a good writer. It's really cool reading this and thinking about how she's finally doing the thing she wanted to do since she was young (but her mom discouraged). 

The first half of the book McCurdy lays out her life when her mom is alive, which mostly coincides with her acting career. With all that's being talked about re Nickelodian and "the Creator", I think this account is one of the most impactful bc it's her telling what she wants to say, vs a curated selection produced by someone else for whatever their own reasons are. There was a lot of difficult aspects to this first bit, like how good she was at crying on cue bc she was just so emotionally wrecked all the time. 
 
The second half of the book is about her recovery from an eating disorder but all throughout the book she talks about the decade + of those eating disorders.

I really appreciated this title and will be thinking about this for a while. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Rape, Child abuse, Eating disorder, and Sexual violence

esophagus18's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Cancer, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Death of parent, Vomit, Grief, and Body shaming

Moderate: Drug use, Sexual violence, Dysphoria, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Drug abuse

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Stalking, Infidelity, and Cursing