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Sigo aquí: Diecisiete roces con la muerte by Maggie O'Farrell
39 reviews
rjohns5's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Medical trauma, Chronic illness, Infertility, Miscarriage, and Sexual assault
sglance9's review against another edition
Graphic: Miscarriage, Violence, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy
Minor: Sexual harassment and Murder
jamihoneycutt's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Sexual assault, Child death, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Medical content, Death, Infertility, and Violence
scenic92's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Miscarriage, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Violence, Bullying, and Infertility
akashara's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Infertility, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, and Rape
bradypus's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Chronic illness, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Car accident, Infertility, and Pregnancy
kelly_e's review against another edition
3.25
Author: Maggie O'Farrell
Genre: Memoir
Rating: 3.25
Pub Date: August 27 2017
T H R E E • W O R D S
Intimate • Unconventional • Articulate
📖 S Y N O P S I S
I Am, I Am, I Am is the deeply personal memoir from British novelist Maggie O'Farrell, exploring seventeen brushes with death sprinkled throughout her life. From a childhood illness to a a frightening encounter deep in the jungle to dealing with a child diagnosed with severe allergies, each essay explores the preciousness of life.
💭 T H O U G H T S
This book had been on my TBR since it's release, and I honestly thought I was going to love it. Not only did it come highly recommended to me, but the beautiful cover and synopsis were right up my alley. However, it failed to engage me completely the whole way through. It is a deeply personal and insightful account of the fragility of life, yet I wasn't overly moved. What didn't work for me was the structure. Personally, I think a chronological order of events would have benefitted the narration and made for a more enjoyable reading experience. With that said, her writing is stunningly beautiful and she explores the complexities of life in a delicate manner.
I anticipated loving this book, and honestly it didn't live up to my expectations. While this wasn't the powerful, moving memoir I was hoping for, it was still worth reading.
📚 R E C O M M E N D • T O
• readers who enjoyed The Year of Magical Thinking
• Maggie O'Farrell fans
🔖 F A V O U R I T E • Q U O T E S
"The people who teach us something retain a particularly vivid place in our memoires. I'd been a parent for about ten minutes when I met the man, but he taught me, with a small gesture, one of the most important things about the job: kindness, intuition, touch, and that sometimes you don't even need words."
Graphic: Chronic illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Miscarriage
Moderate: Death, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual assault
Minor: Pregnancy
hrhacissej's review against another edition
4.0
I don't think reading this book during a pandemic was the best idea for me.
O'Farrell is a wonderful writer. Her prose gets to the heart of what she's experiencing succinctly but with an enormous depth. She FEELS things; she writes them down; you read them; and then you FEEL things.
Feeling things is a good thing, but right now, I FEEL a lot of things. Most of them anxiety producing.
In this book of essays, O'Farrell shares 17 of her near death experiences. And even though, I know she's alive (duh...she wrote the book...), I got so anxious reading some of these stories.
So, pardon me, but I skimmed some of them and promptly returned the book to the library. Just breathe.
Moderate: Chronic illness, Grief, Medical content, and Medical trauma
mk_books's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Death, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, and Medical content
Minor: Rape