Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

190 reviews

bloomingbookworm's review

challenging emotional hopeful sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Rape, Alcohol, Suicide, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Police brutality, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Suicidal thoughts, Death, and Murder

Minor: Blood and Vomit

mimo_'s review against another edition

4.5

its hard to review a memoir bc its not just a made up story but smn that actually happened and i dont want to discount her experience but i will say i liked her writing and how she goes through everything that happened to her and the effects of it

i did leave a lot of rants in a buddy read and i did end up googling the case and reading the entire wiki page jdsjxndnxn

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Grief, Gaslighting, Sexual violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual harassment, Medical content, Sexual content, and Mental illness

ninahuynh's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring tense medium-paced

5.0

Chanel Miller is such a great storyteller. I remember when this case broke in the news. I did not realize the incident happened just months before I myself attended college! Hearing Miller tell us her story, displaying her anger, frustration, sadness, numbness, loneliness, hopelessness really brought power to her story, especially in Emily Doe's Victim Impact Statement at the end of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Blood, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Grief, Rape, and Medical trauma

lorenek15's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Panic attacks/disorders, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Alcohol, and Racism

chrysos79's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Suicide and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Racism and Medical content

csoyars's review

challenging emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

5.0

Heart wrenching, honest, brave, and beautifully written. I ache for and am in awe of Chanel Miller.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Gaslighting, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

hania_027's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, and Grief

Moderate: Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, and Death

Minor: Alcohol

sebulba's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Misogyny, Alcohol, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Domestic abuse

thursdd4y's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gaslighting, Medical content, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Classism, Racial slurs, Cursing, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Grief, Mental illness, Rape, Sexism, Sexual harassment, and Suicide

Moderate: Mass/school shootings

cmruth98's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

“I wrote this book because the world can be harsh and terrible and unforgiving. I wrote because there were times I did not feel like living. I wrote because the court system is slow as a snail, and victims are forced to spend so much time fighting, rather than spending their days creating, drawing, cooking. I wrote to expose the brutalist of entitlement, gender violence, and class privilege in our society. But I would be failing you if you walked away from this book untouched by humanity, without seeing what I saw: those thousands of handwritten letters, the green-lipped fish at the bottom of the ocean, the winking court reporter. All the small miracles that sustained me.” 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide