Reviews tagging 'Death'

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

28 reviews

1moodreader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

There are ugly realities we shy away from. Some truths are too hard to bear, process, think about, solve, talk about, and write about. The only way we can cope is by ignoring reality. When we do this, we hurt ourselves and others. Sometimes, we need to do more. We need to be better. This book was like a dive headfirst into a pool in the middle of winter. I knew what this book was going to be about and supported her even as Emily Doe. It is still hard to process that everyday people are sexually abused, hurt, defiled, broken. I hate that this is even a thing; I hate that it's normalized. I hate that victims can't feel safe confronting their attacker. This hate turns into anger and then into sadness, which is when we start distracting ourselves. Because this anger, this hate, can eat us up and leave us as a smoking shell of a person. It took me 18 days to finish this book, and I am glad that I did. For anyone in a similar place as Chanel/Emily, I want to know how to help and comfort and support. Victims, survivors are never alone, even when they feel like it. I and so many others want to be there for them. This book has to be a must-read for everyone, especially for anyone involved in the legal system. 

Chanel Miller's story deserves to be heard and is one of the most honest and truthful accounts of sexual assault survivors' journey in and out of the courtroom. It took me 18 days to finish because I would become depressed, shaken, angry, upset at everything she was going through. She writes in a way that makes me feel her pain; every attack and question goes straight to my core. Read this book; you'll learn so much. 

Look at trigger warnings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Body shaming, Sexism, Sexual assault, Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Sexual violence, Suicide, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, and Panic attacks/disorders

zombiezami's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexism, Rape, Misogyny, Hate crime, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Racism, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Eating disorder, and Blood

Minor: Police brutality, Xenophobia, Vomit, Drug use, and Death

Victim-blaming, rape apologism

lucyrudd's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

rini's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Death, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Confinement, Domestic abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

ace_b's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Rape, Sexism, and Sexual assault

Minor: Mass/school shootings

aimzthereader's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

Moderate: Cursing, Suicide, Gun violence, Violence, Body shaming, Death, and Mass/school shootings

denden's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Death, Suicide, and Vomit

Minor: Bullying

skudiklier's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This book is powerful, beautifully written, and both validating and infuriating. I had to stop reading at times because I was so angry, and of course it made me cry (though not as much as I would have anticipated, honestly). I got to listen to Chanel Miller read the book out loud, and I'm so glad I did. She reads it more slowly than I would have read a physical copy, and I'm grateful for spending the extra time sitting with this book and what happens in it. It made me realize things about some loved ones that I'd never considered before, and it made me realize things about myself, too. I'd recommend this book to anyone (and also recommend you follow @chanel_miller on Instagram because her comics are funny and inspirational and I just love the things she creates).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Medical trauma, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Gun violence, Death, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Cursing, Racism, Racial slurs, and Sexism

Moderate: Body shaming, Vomit, Sexual content, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Hate crime, Grief, Gore, and Drug use