Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

9 reviews

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

skysbooknook's review against another edition

reflective sad fast-paced

1.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Grief, and Medical content

alexazilla's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Child death, and Death

rebeccazacuto's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

An intimate recollection of grief by one of the greats. Didion is concise and sharp yet  poignant and vulnerable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, and Child death

sophjones95's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Suicidal thoughts, and Death

cdua's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

The book has a writing style that I am obsessed with but one that also makes me feel like I have constantly lost my footing. In the collection of stories, I felt like many chapters were repetitions of one another or repeating similar information with different delivery. Specifically the middle chunk of the book felt like I really had to push through. Still, her reflections on grief were fascinating and I found her last few chapters to be particularly poignant. I think reading this before I have experienced any grief of my own gives me a false sense of distaste for the novel that I might not hold in the future. Maybe not. And warning that Didion always does seem to write a bit pretentiously about her life and can often come across as a bit privileged. Only writing all these as notes, I still enjoyed the book and her work. South and West is up next!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Death

Moderate: Child death

jessieij's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Terminal illness

samanthatully's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness and Child death

arsenic_'s review

emotional sad medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

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