Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Blue Nights by Joan Didion

8 reviews

crawforl's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Child death, and Blood

Moderate: Eating disorder and Cancer

daniellekat's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

Beautifully written. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Grief, and Child death

Moderate: Chronic illness

isakr's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

Moderate: Cancer and Classism

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Murder, Classism, Chronic illness, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

kiaragennaro's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Child death, Chronic illness, Medical content, and Suicidal thoughts

olivefoil's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Terminal illness and Chronic illness

islam_sulieman's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Child death, and Grief

annasophie's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

2.5

I find this very hard to rate, and even harder to articulate why that is. There isn’t much narrative structure or much insight to be gained from what a person goes through following the loss of a loved one - guess that makes sense since losing someone throws everything into chaos, with no discernible meaning to be found - but there just isn’t much in this book that I even remember honestly. Not much to be said about Didion’s writing though, she’s always great. I just didn’t find much in the story beyond that, which maybe is the point but honestly, I’m not smart enough or willing enough to explore and analyze that further. So yeah, hard to give this an accurate rating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Grief, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

deadeye's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Eating disorder, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, Death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Abandonment, Drug abuse, Drug use, Cancer, Addiction, Miscarriage, Abortion, and Alcohol