Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell

32 reviews

geocul's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

edgaranjapoe's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

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

emilylikesbread's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

3.75

This is a very unique way to share a life story. The first story in particular was quite chilling. Out of all of them, that will stay with me the longest. It’s insane how many times this woman almost died. Equally unlucky and lucky. I definitely found myself getting a little anxious at times. If you’re sensitive I would suggest reading tw before reading. Great read if you’re up for it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, and Medical content

Moderate: Chronic illness, Pregnancy, Ableism, and Infertility

Minor: Murder, Violence, Miscarriage, Rape, and Pedophilia

kaylamoran's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

Loved the audiobook, I absolutely loved the narrators voice.  I've recently dipped my toe into memoirs and so far, so good.  Will definitely be looking into Maggie O'Farrell's fiction.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Medical content

Moderate: Stalking and Sexual violence

pipss's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective tense slow-paced

4.0

Muito tenso...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Blood, and Medical content

Moderate: Grief, Vomit, and Pregnancy

Minor: Infertility, Miscarriage, Abortion, and Death

samcsmith's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective tense fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage, Medical content, Blood, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Chronic illness

Minor: Ableism, Infertility, Pedophilia, and Violence

cmbohn's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma and Medical content

Moderate: Miscarriage, Violence, Pregnancy, Infertility, and Injury/Injury detail

sshabein's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

After reading Hamnet (and absolutely loving it), I decided to check out Maggie O'Farrell's memoir from the library, and wow, what a book! She tells the stories of her life where she narrowly avoided death, and how those experiences shaped her. It isn't told chronologically, but in a way that definitely unfolds and flashes back in a really compelling way. Her writing is flush with description that never feels overwrought or superfluous.

Some of her brushes with death involve medical treatment, and my jaw quite literally dropped at what people, especially medical professionals, said to her during those times. From her childhood hospitalization from encephalitis to her many miscarriages after a difficult first birth, you'll be ready to fight a couple nurses and doctors ON SIGHT. That said, there is also the very moving moment where one mysterious medical person, about whom she never found out any information, really supported her when she needed it most. If you're a person who has medical trauma of any sort, you may want to check in with yourself before reading.

Between this book and Hamnet being among my favorites this year, I'm ready to delve further into her back catalog. I've had an ARC of Instructions for a Heatwave sitting around an embarrassingly long time, and I will definitely, finally read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Chronic illness, Grief, Miscarriage, Violence, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Medical trauma

icieri's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Medical content, Miscarriage, Chronic illness, and Pregnancy

laurenkimoto's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

3.5

How can someone have 17 brushes with death?????? Wild but eloquently written. 
Parts of this book are written in first person and parts are written in third person and the impact that has on the tone and the emotions is masterful used 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Blood, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Excrement, Infertility, Grief, Body horror, Car accident, Death, Miscarriage, Chronic illness, Gaslighting, Gore, and Medical content