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I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee

26 reviews

apersonfromflorida's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Body shaming, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Alcoholism and Emotional abuse

Minor: Homophobia, Domestic abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

genzea's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.5

Baek Sehee went to therapy so you don’t have to (I’m kidding, find a good therapist if that’s accessible to you). The first 14 out of 15 chapters are direct conversations with her and her therapists with her giving commentary before and after. I appreciate how extremely vulnerable she had to be for that, expressing dark things she doesn’t like about herself, flaws that she knows is a constant work in progress. Chapter 15 is filled with various short essays that are poetic like about different aspects of her life and her thoughts. Very different memoirs style. It’s also painfully relatable 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism

Minor: Fatphobia, Domestic abuse, Suicide, Sexual harassment, and Homophobia

litematcha's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Homophobia

parasolcrafter's review against another edition

emotional hopeful fast-paced

4.0

this book wasnt what i thought it was going to be when i went into it (story-telling wise!) but it was a really interesting & raw look into one persons life and her struggles and how she tries to overcome it with therapy and medication and how it isnt a quick, immediate fix like some people think it is

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Alcohol, Body shaming, Bullying, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse

Minor: Homophobia

katharina90's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

2.0

I saw the title and laughed out loud, so I went into this book expecting it to be super relatable and full of dark humor... Sadly the title isn't really representative of the book's content or tone.

While initially excited to read transcripts of real-life therapy sessions, I ultimately felt those conversations were dry, lacking in depth, and repetitive. 

I also struggled to relate to the author's difficulties and perspectives, even though the book's blurb suggested a lot of similarities between myself and the author.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Fatphobia, and Homophobia

Minor: Classism and Domestic abuse

myeonmae's review against another edition

inspiring reflective slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Body shaming, and Mental illness

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Homophobia, Bullying, and Racism

joshuahc's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Mental illness, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Emotional abuse

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Xenophobia

cooper_reads_books's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Body shaming, Dysphoria, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Domestic abuse

lauxreads's review against another edition

medium-paced

2.5

When I initially saw the book at the bookstore, I was intrigued by the title and the cover, and the blurb also caught my eye.

Upon taking another look, I quickly realized that I want to die but I want to eat tteokbokki wasn't a fiction book about a woman suffering with mental health issues, as I initially thought, but is instead a memoir of a woman's experience with therapy and working through her problems. I was very interested in the way the author would portray her experience, so of course I bought the book.

Now that I finished, I'm not sure what to think about it. Certainly, the matter of the book and the described exoeriences are deeply personal to the author so I don't want to go too deep into describing how I only found myself relating to short passages at the time, while other experiences were strange to me.

As far as the style of the book is concerned, the fact that it is largely made up of transcripts from therapy sessions is interesting to me. Since therapy is usually a confidential setting between the patient and the therapist, being the 'third person in the room' as a reader was interesting. However, I didnt enjoy the parts in between as much and the epilogues felt a bit distracting to me.

I would probably have enjoyed the book more if it was entirely made up of therapy transcripts - maybe including the author's thoughts where necessary.

At times, the descriptions also felt superficial, which is why I would have preferred for the book to be longer and to go into more detail.

Nonetheless, it was an interesting and fairly quick read that did include some sentences that I will also keep in mind for myself from time to time.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Fatphobia

Minor: Homophobia and Xenophobia

samchase112's review against another edition

reflective sad fast-paced

3.25

Honestly… just see BooksUnbound's book club episode for most of my thoughts. They said it best! But seriously, this was interesting, but too dry and clinical to get at a lot of the personal parts I was hoping for. But I'd be interested in reading a memoir from this author… as I always am :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Fatphobia

Minor: Homophobia and Lesbophobia