Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott

25 reviews

nicolejlevy's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Addiction, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Genocide, and Mental illness

Moderate: Grief, Fatphobia, and Hate crime

sofiareadings's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Racism, Cultural appropriation, and Colonisation

Moderate: Addiction, Chronic illness, Cultural appropriation, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Police brutality, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

remib's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, and Sexual assault

mscalls's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Sexual violence

biancafrancisco's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Through a very personal narrative - using herself, her family and her nation as examples - the author touches upon more themes than I can mention, connecting bridges between a myriad of crucial societal issues, always leading back to the macro vision of the effect of capitalism, colonialism and the action of the state on people, while simultaneously making us keep checking our prejudices.

The book teaches you a lot about the issues indigenous communities and individuals struggle with (most that were imposed on them by colonizers), and how not only they are still dealing with and trying to heal from the very real and tangibly present damage this legacy of colonialism and genocide has transfered through generations, but are simultaneously dealing with modern versions of the same violence nowadays. 

I was surprised to see, that through the connections she makes between several systemic structures, there was much for me to relate to as well. I'm an immensely priviledged white european, but I'm still a woman, I'm still a daughter, I'm still bound by the constraints of capitalism and the patriarchy as well as witness to intergenerational trauma, to mention a few, and, in the end, you can't accurately assess any structural issue without it intertwining with the others.

All in all, I recommend it to literally everyone, as I think there's learning opportunities in this book for all of us. I'm extremely glad I picked it up. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Sexism, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, and Xenophobia

_kathill's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Rape, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Domestic abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Addiction, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, and Gaslighting

Minor: Blood and Eating disorder

liteartha's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Police brutality, and Colonisation

Moderate: Alcoholism, Forced institutionalization, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, and Sexual assault

laurendenton's review

adventurous dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Grief, Pregnancy, and Racism

littlecat's review

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

Its not a style I read a lot of books in (personal essays) which was interesting, it has a distinct own style and I like the humor in it despite the heavy topics. I felt like I read at least part of the essays before but that may just because I read other things about the topics before, definitly interesting.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Racism, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Addiction, Body shaming, and Rape

linkamarisa's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Hate crime, Mental illness, and Racism

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Police brutality, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual violence