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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell
20 reviews
veposve's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Chronic illness, Blood, Death, Infertility, Medical content, and Miscarriage
Minor: Sexual harassment
skillwithaquill's review against another edition
5.0
None of the usual trappings of inspiration porn, healing through Jesus, or spiritual woowoo that many memoirs about illness and near-death experiences fall into. It’s thoughtful, but not preachy. Meaningful, but not maudlin. I’ll definitely revisit it in the future.
Graphic: Pregnancy, Confinement, Medical content, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, and Sexism
Moderate: Misogyny and Death
Minor: Abortion, Blood, Excrement, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, and Vomit
Other content warnings & specifics: medical sexism, graphic discussions of childbirth & c-section, attempted assault & kidnapping, child in peril, graphic depiction of a near drowning, claustrophobia, abortion (in the context of a missed miscarriage requiring surgical intervention).qtcarolyn's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Grief, Blood, Miscarriage, Bullying, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Confinement, Infertility, Infidelity, Murder, and Vomit
Moderate: Car accident
Minor: Sexual violence, Dysphoria, and Animal death
leefox's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Chronic illness, Sexual harassment, and Medical content
frankieclc's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Medical content, Miscarriage, Blood, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Violence
edgaranjapoe's review against another edition
2.5
Graphic: Pregnancy, Medical content, Death, Infertility, Child death, Blood, Medical trauma, and Miscarriage
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Chronic illness
Minor: Abortion, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Violence, Physical abuse, Bullying, Car accident, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Rape, Sexual violence, Ableism, Murder, and Gaslighting
alexhaydon's review against another edition
Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Ableism
Moderate: Medical trauma, Chronic illness, Murder, Blood, and Ableism
sirri_sivutiella's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Stalking, Death, and Chronic illness
Moderate: Blood
massivepizzacrust's review against another edition
4.0
I'm not sure I really understand why the chapters were arranged the way they were. By the end of the book I didn't really have a sense that there was an overall arch to the book (past the connection between her childhood death experiences and her daughter's). I thought some of the stories brought more to the table than others - the stories centering on her pregnancies and her childhood were mostly beautiful, but the story with the mysterious man and the dog was confusing and weirdly half-confessional.
Reading about someone else's preoccupation with death was a relief to me. It's something that's been hard for me to deal with sometimes and this was a really different view on it. I don't think I'll be making any unprepared trips to remote countries any time soon though.
Graphic: Medical trauma, Ableism, Blood, Miscarriage, Violence, Bullying, Chronic illness, Medical content, and Infertility
Minor: Rape and Pedophilia
pipss's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Medical trauma, Blood, and Medical content
Moderate: Grief, Vomit, and Pregnancy
Minor: Infertility, Miscarriage, Abortion, and Death