Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

18 reviews

sestout's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Medical content

Minor: Blood, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, and Alcohol

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

isscnls's review against another edition

It's kind of interesting, and a little disarming, to read someone with such a rational, straightforward mind talk about the experience of grieving, which is an absolutely irrational, complicated thing. I think that makes it more heartbreaking, the making sense of things that cannot be in any way made sense of. This realization only came of course because I read one other Didion work before this. The contrast between that previous book and this one is unapparent in terms of language, style, wording — but, to use the word again, disarming in terms of the surety one exudes and one doesn't.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Death, Blood, Medical content, and Grief

rachthecreator's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Grief, Blood, Chronic illness, and Medical content

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

srah's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

I don't think I could read this book immediately after a loss, but I recognized a lot of my own grief and mourning in Joan Didion's.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Minor: Blood

caribbeangirlreading's review against another edition

The Year of Magical Thinking reads like a very personal journal written in stream of consciousness that was not mean for anyone else to read. I wholeheartedly believe that it helped Joan Didion in her grief journey. It might even help other readers in their grief journey. I just could not finish it. I felt that for every snippet of wisdom, there were pages and pages of very cerebral and detached writing. Maybe this *is* how Joan  Didion handled the year full of tragedy after tragedy but it did not make for compelling reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Blood, Medical trauma, and Medical content

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