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Quero morrer, mas também quero comer tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee
96 reviews
chireadsandchill's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcohol, Body shaming, Bullying, Suicide, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Mental illness
ashleybeereads's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness, Fatphobia, and Alcohol
Moderate: Domestic abuse and Bullying
Minor: Suicide
cibani's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
3.5
Content Warnings
Minor: Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, and Body shaming
emminkirjakasa's review against another edition
emotional
informative
medium-paced
2.25
I really wanted to like this...
Sadly, nothing about this book sticks out. I was waiting for something bigger, since this book had so many 5 star reviews. The therapy sessions feel similar to what I had (just a little different topics), but I don't think anyone else would really get anything out of my sessions.
I liked the essays in the end of the book, and the way the book was writen as a conversation. Just everything else about it was meeh.
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Mä olisin kovasti halunnut tykätä tästä...
Valitettavasti kirjasta ei jää mitään käteen. Odotin jotain parempaa ja suurempaa, koska kirjalla on niin monta 5 tähden arvostelua. Terapiaistunnot tuntuvat samanlaisilta kuin minulla oli (vain vähän eri aiheet), mutta en usko, että kukaan muu saisi mitään irti istunnoistani.
Pidin kirjan lopussa olevista esseistä ja tavasta jolla kirja kirjoitettiin keskusteluna. Kaikki muu kirjassa oli vain meeh.
Sadly, nothing about this book sticks out. I was waiting for something bigger, since this book had so many 5 star reviews. The therapy sessions feel similar to what I had (just a little different topics), but I don't think anyone else would really get anything out of my sessions.
I liked the essays in the end of the book, and the way the book was writen as a conversation. Just everything else about it was meeh.
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Mä olisin kovasti halunnut tykätä tästä...
Valitettavasti kirjasta ei jää mitään käteen. Odotin jotain parempaa ja suurempaa, koska kirjalla on niin monta 5 tähden arvostelua. Terapiaistunnot tuntuvat samanlaisilta kuin minulla oli (vain vähän eri aiheet), mutta en usko, että kukaan muu saisi mitään irti istunnoistani.
Pidin kirjan lopussa olevista esseistä ja tavasta jolla kirja kirjoitettiin keskusteluna. Kaikki muu kirjassa oli vain meeh.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness and Fatphobia
Moderate: Emotional abuse and Alcohol
leontyna's review against another edition
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
It was a very interesting peek into somebody's therapy and their depression. It would have been a 5 star but I'm not totally sold on the ending essays.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness
Minor: Fatphobia
superstar_y2k's review against another edition
slow-paced
2.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Alcohol, Body shaming, and Fatphobia
queerloras's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
3.0
I felt really seen, really connected to the author of this book. I understood completely how she was feeling. The only downside was the essays at the end felt very disconnected rather than the topical/related ones that followed the conversation transcriptions earlier in the book.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Toxic friendship, Fatphobia, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship
yuzu_149's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
I think this book falls under the category of "I like it" because I resonate with the author's struggles, but I also get why some people may not enjoy it, because it's just such a raw, candid sharing of her personal experiences. The book is a collection of transcribed recordings between the author and her therapist, with an epilogue at the back where the author and the therapist shares their final thoughts.
The writing is not always polished, and the thoughts expressed sometimes sound convoluted and contradictory. But then isn't that what makes us all human? When we get anxious, stressed or just don't feel well, that's how our thoughts are - when I journal, I also feel like I'm trying to find clarity through a huge fog of jumbled up feelings and emotions.
It felt comforting to read her struggles because I also struggled with similar things. And I found myself highlighting a lot throughout the book - it can be a relief to read and find the words that describe what I've felt a lot of the times. The state where you feel anxious, down and stressed out on a lot of days - and yet, it isn't exactly serious enough to take drastic action.
A paragraph from the epilogue fo the book (written by the author's therapist) sums it all up very well, "This is a record of a very ordinary, incomplete person who meets another very ordinary, incomplete person, the latter of whom happens to be a therapist. The therapist makes some mistakes and has a bit of room for improvement, but life has always been like that, which means everyone’s life – our readers included – has the potential to become better. To our readers, who are perhaps down and out from having experienced much devastation or are living day-to-day in barely contained anxiety: I hope you will listen to a certain overlooked and different voice within you. Because the human heart, even when it wants to die, quite often wants at the same time to eat some tteokbokki, too."
The writing is not always polished, and the thoughts expressed sometimes sound convoluted and contradictory. But then isn't that what makes us all human? When we get anxious, stressed or just don't feel well, that's how our thoughts are - when I journal, I also feel like I'm trying to find clarity through a huge fog of jumbled up feelings and emotions.
It felt comforting to read her struggles because I also struggled with similar things. And I found myself highlighting a lot throughout the book - it can be a relief to read and find the words that describe what I've felt a lot of the times. The state where you feel anxious, down and stressed out on a lot of days - and yet, it isn't exactly serious enough to take drastic action.
A paragraph from the epilogue fo the book (written by the author's therapist) sums it all up very well, "This is a record of a very ordinary, incomplete person who meets another very ordinary, incomplete person, the latter of whom happens to be a therapist. The therapist makes some mistakes and has a bit of room for improvement, but life has always been like that, which means everyone’s life – our readers included – has the potential to become better. To our readers, who are perhaps down and out from having experienced much devastation or are living day-to-day in barely contained anxiety: I hope you will listen to a certain overlooked and different voice within you. Because the human heart, even when it wants to die, quite often wants at the same time to eat some tteokbokki, too."
Content Warnings
Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Bullying, and Eating disorder
herbertem1996's review against another edition
slow-paced
2.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Alcohol