Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

6 reviews

spellygirl's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

3.0

It wasn't bad, but from the reviews I've seen I expected a lot more. It was absolutely sad, but I was nowhere near crying or anything like that. There were a lot of descriptions of Korean food, which there were a bit too many of for me personally,

especially the eating live octopus thing.

 The audiobook was decently read, though I sped it up to 1.2, which I doesn't typically do. If you're into the topic and don't mind a lot of food descriptions, I would recommend giving it a try. I felt I learned more about Korean culture, and having issues communicating in your origin country. And of course the cancer journey and stuff, but I knew more about that to begin with. Overall I would probably have liked it better if it wasn't so hyped up and increased my expectations so much. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Cancer, Death of parent, Grief, and Terminal illness

Minor: Infidelity, Abortion, Alcoholism, Car accident, Animal cruelty, Alcohol, and Animal death

leahroyelle's review

medium-paced

3.0

It felt like the author wrote this book too soon. Reading it, it seemed pretty clear that she still has a lot of processing to do. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Child abuse

jodierose14's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Animal cruelty

leahb88's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Wow so good. Covers a complicated mother-daughter relationship, loss and grief, Korean-American identity, connection to food and culture. Read this with Psychopomp in the background and lots of tears and UGH. Kind of slow at the end, but it kind of felt like dragging through grief, kind of mimicking her own experience maybe? I don’t know if enjoyed is the right word, but I highly loved reading this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Terminal illness, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Infidelity and Animal cruelty

seanajk's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Car accident, Death, Medical content, Cancer, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, and Excrement

Minor: Emotional abuse, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Abortion

starstuff's review

I had a hard time with some of the stuff discussed in this book (eating live octopuses is quite disturbing…). And overall, I found it too depressing and didn’t like the way it made me feel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Animal cruelty, Cancer, and Death of parent