Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

482 reviews

martinatan's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

you already know this book is perfect and no one can tell me otherwise

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Cancer, Death of parent, Death, Terminal illness, Grief, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Alcohol

Minor: Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Addiction, Cursing, Dementia, Rape, Abortion, Domestic abuse, Racism, and Drug use

graecus_'s review

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

very sweet book, you can feel zauner’s love for her mother through the page. honestly made me weirdly emotional while reading. once again i read this on audio, and it was read by the author and her reading was immaculate. i will need to eat korean food at some point this week. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Terminal illness

kmae314's review

emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

3.5 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Grief

Moderate: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, and Alcoholism

anditsreal's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

4.25

Beautifully written. The audiobook version definitely enhanced the writing, the cadence, the alliteration. It felt like I was listening to art. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Death

themeanfrench's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Death of parent, Cancer, and Medical content

Minor: Addiction, Infidelity, Drug abuse, Car accident, and Alcohol

emilyharmonica's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Infidelity, Alcohol, Excrement, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Cancer, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Grief, Drug use, and Abortion

book_gremlin42's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

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

mcnan's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

I've never lost a parent. I'm not an only child. My race is as white as can be. That this story still managed to resonate with me was a testament to Zauner and her writing abilities. Her skill in picking up and noting minute details and feelings is incredible. 

I had the pleasure of listening to her give a book talk about this, but, admittedly, had not even read the book at the time. I wish I would have, because I would have experienced her presence with a new weight and understanding. 

Highly recommend the audiobook.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abortion and Alcoholism

idesofmarch's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, and Cancer

Moderate: Terminal illness

Minor: Abortion and Rape