Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

91 reviews

mlovesbooks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Imagine my surprise when I finished another sad book and picked up this one to finish the second half of what I thought was a fun, goofy read.

Patricia Lockwood is so good at making you laugh and cry in the same sentence.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Child death

kirkspockreads's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Reader, I cried.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Death, Sexism, Grief, Misogyny, and Child death

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Pregnancy

Minor: Abortion and Gun violence

tealord's review against another edition

sad

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Terminal illness

bestknownfor's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Terminal illness

Moderate: Ableism

samuriah's review

dark emotional funny slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness, Pregnancy, Child death, and Medical content

bluedilly's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

He took only as much as he needed of something, and that was enough.

I read the first half utterly confused. I read the second half uncontrollably crying.

The doors of bland suburban houses now looked possible, outlined, pulsing—for behind any one of them could be hidden a bright and private glory. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Grief, Medical content, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Abortion and Pregnancy

Minor: Ableism

americattt's review

emotional funny reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

“Her sister's husband went to a garage sale one afternoon and purchased like fifty Beanie Babies. This, too, was one of the remedies for grief. Someone had sat them on little stools in their display cases, so they would not get tired—of what?—of the long direct daylight of being Beanie Babies. Someone had cared for them. Perhaps everyone was a god with their eye on some small sparrow. Perhaps everyone was the collector of some soft rare commemorative, stitched with a visible heart and worth millions on millions in the mind.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Terminal illness, and Grief

Moderate: Abortion

annaofjesup's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Xenophobia, Terminal illness, Child death, Grief, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Medical content and Pregnancy

Minor: Body shaming, Confinement, Ableism, and Abortion

lorenag5's review against another edition

challenging funny reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Medical content, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Alcoholism, Child death, and Alcohol

talin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Terminal illness