Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Blue Nights by Joan Didion

21 reviews

schlmann's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Grief

risemini's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

scmiller's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Child death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Alcohol, Medical content, Classism, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Alcoholism, Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Addiction, Alcohol, and Eating disorder

minkkmuse's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, and Death

miranda_mic's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

kjbreads's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, and Child death

sofiadidonato's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death

ibergill's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This book is beautiful, heartbreaking, and introspective. Didion boldly tackled her grief and her fears and her questions in a way that invites empathy, curiosity, and encourages the reader to consider their own fears, memories and failings. One of my favorite books I have ever read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Child death

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