Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Hollywood Park: A Memoir by Mikel Jollett

7 reviews

jenigmatic's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Grief, Mental illness, Abandonment, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Emotional abuse

em_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Vomit, Violence, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Cursing, Body shaming, Blood, Alcoholism, Addiction, and Abandonment

librarymouse's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

 Reading memoirs often leads to moments of self reflection, comparing yourself to the author; what the author is willing to share through the distance offered by a book versus what people are willing to share face to face. This was one of the best memoirs I've read in my life. It starts as a book about a cult, but rather than focusing on the cult and it's history as so many similar books have, Jollett writes about its impact, how it echoed through his life, how he tried to escape its impact, and then embracing its impact as a part of him. The music tied to the story was wonderfully done, and Jollett narrating the book made it personal. Jollett covers far too much in this book for me to address in a review, but as cliche as it is, I laughed at some parts, cried at others, and felt righteous indignation at others still. There is real beauty and real life in these pages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Grief, Medical content, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Gore, Terminal illness, Blood, Body shaming, Animal death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Forced institutionalization, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Child abuse, and Death

lexa's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

5.0

I don’t really want to say I loved this memoir because oof it was a heartbreaking one. But it was a well written story of tragedy, loss, triumph and love. Audiobook was fantastic, including music by The Airborne Toxic Event. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Addiction, Animal death, Blood, Drug abuse, Drug use, Vomit, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Abandonment, Body shaming, Physical abuse, and Violence

Minor: Racism

gabrielab's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Vomit, Bullying, Cancer, Cursing, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Violence, Alcohol, Animal death, Body shaming, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

morganperks's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Alcoholism, Addiction, Abandonment, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

imstephtacular's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Cursing