Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

11 reviews

hollyrebecca's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

• Such a poignant and impactful exploration into the effects of loss and grief and trauma.
• Joan has found such a perfect method of depicting the ways in which the mind battles with the death of a loved one. The lack of coherency through much of the telling, due to Joan constantly slipping into tangential tales and getting stuck on disjointed memories, is so reflective of the way your brain tries to protect itself by latching on to images and feelings of a time before such grief encompassed your being.
• I have never understood my own thoughts and feelings, about the past loss of my family members, to such a degree as I have after reading this. A truly necessary read for all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Minor: Suicide and Murder

ieotter13's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.25

did i accidentally read the play version? yes. was it still good? also yes. 

a pretty poetic book about going crazy as a result of intense grief. 

i did have fun imagining how i’d stage this as a play tho so worth it ig?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Terminal illness, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Mental illness, Medical content, Chronic illness, Child death, and Grief

wheelyautistic's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful sad fast-paced

5.0

I loved how I was practically in the mind of the author. Although it seems like it's a little all of over the place and hard to keep track of in reality this perfectly depict the author's mind and thought through the toughest time in her life.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Medical content, Chronic illness, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Medical trauma

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

this was such an interesting book due to the intense feelings of grief paired with feeling numb. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Chronic illness, Medical content, Death, Grief, Blood, and Medical trauma

ada171's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Medical content

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Blood

lucinotlucy's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

mswarning's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

 I might be on the wrong side of grief to fully appreciate this book. At times I thought it profound and others boring or needlessly self-indulgent. But maybe grief is like all of that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Blood

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

lenaboving's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

korinnagarcia's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

It feels wrong to rate such a deeply personal book but I find that listening or reading about someone else's
experience with loss can be helpful with your own. This by all accounts should be a sad book and at times it is but the
tone in which Joan writes this book is light hearted, dead pan, and like a tribute to her husband and the life they lived
together. The way she researches and learns about all the medical terms for what her daughter is going through and
for what her husband went through is inspiring. "Read, learn, work it up, go to literature. Information is control"
Every time I think I can't become more of a fan of Joan Didion's writing, I read another one of her books and I'm
mesmerized by her all over again.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

lindseyhall44's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

5.0

Honestly one of the best books I have ever read. “My Year of Magical Thinking” reflected my grief, but also how every grieving process is different.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Death of parent, and Death