Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Nowhere for Very Long: The Unexpected Road to an Unconventional Life by Brianna Madia

7 reviews

merakiforest's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Alcohol, Cursing, Addiction, Blood, Classism, Drug use, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, and Forced institutionalization

savyelizabeth's review

adventurous emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Gore

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

pixelited's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

A genuinely beautiful book about the life of a woman I had never heard of before but now is someone I look up to as inspiration and with the utmost respect.

The author does an excellent job of describing every detail of her adventures and challenges, and it was easy to be enthralled in her words and see the images of her life play in your mind. As a reader, I felt everything right alongside the author as she told it and even had to choke back tears at some parts. Overall, this is just a truly phenomenal memoir that I would recommend to anyone!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Car accident, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Drug use, and Drug abuse

quixote430's review against another edition

Listened to audiobook. Really enjoyed most of the book - the adventures, the family history. Made the mistake of googling the author and read about her being attacked on social media (unfairly I believe). I realized the last part of the book would not be as uplifting as the first but carried on listening.

But when the dog was hit by the car I just couldn’t listened anymore, it was described so vividly that I immediately shut off the book and returned it to the library. Maybe it wouldn’t have been so triggering if I was reading the book rather than listening to it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Medical trauma

jayricart's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Vomit, Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug use, Infidelity, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

ridgewife's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing fast-paced

5.0

Well. Where do I begin. This story was everything I knew it would be having followed Brianna for years. My heart will remember this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Car accident, Grief, and Vomit

caitlinpfry's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I have been following Bri on Instagram since 2017 and have read about her highs and her lows and the trolls in between.

I don’t read memoirs to confirm my own perspectives about a person. I read memoirs to put myself into that person’s shoes as much as a person can from a book. While in those shoes I am a witness to the relationships, the feelings, and the conflicts that individual has experienced. 

What makes this a 5 star memoir? Brianna is raw - she acknowledges her “tortured artist past” to show that she is growing, learning, healing, and loving instead of choosing to focus on her past persona. A memoir isn’t for the reader, it’s for the writer. This book is a love letter and a forgiveness to herself. Don’t we all deserve to give ourselves that?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug abuse, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Grief, Car accident, and Blood