Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

22 reviews

pikkumarja's review

emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

This story is so emotional and beautiful. It made me think about all the memories linked to foods and drinks and meals together with the loved ones.

The book reads as fiction even when it is non-fiction (and that makes everything way more emotional).
StoryGraph said this is out of my comfort zone but I felt very comfortable reading this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Cancer, and Medical content

Moderate: Alcoholism and Vomit

Minor: Violence

crieraylas's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Cancer, Grief, Death, Chronic illness, Racism, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Addiction, Car accident, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Body shaming, and Eating disorder

Minor: Infidelity, Violence, and Abortion

biblioglot's review

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I love this book and how the author talks about how complicated parental relationships can be. I appreciated her perspective and found myself crying at one point. The writing flows nicely and the talk about dealing with grief and how she reconnected with her family and Korean identity is really beautiful. Truly a stellar book. I have nothing negative to say about it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Medical content, Death of parent, and Cancer

Moderate: Alcohol, Violence, Car accident, and Terminal illness

youkirmv's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful relaxing sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer

Moderate: Terminal illness and Mental illness

Minor: Violence

hols_s's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Abortion, and Child abuse

peachandmints's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Physical abuse, Medical content, Cancer, Car accident, Terminal illness, Death, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Child abuse, and Abortion

kelseychild's review

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse, Alcoholism, and Violence

booksanna's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

I will preface this review by saying that memoirs are not typically my repertoire, yet this book dragged me out of a severe case of a reading slump. Firstly, the author’s beautiful writing provides soothing comforting and ever so meaningful story of her life. I especially enjoyed how she blended food with other themes of her life. As an immigrant myself, this book was a deep relieving sign of breath, and a nice warming cup of soup. For a book with only 200 pages, it could not have been more meaningfully written. The author’s eloquent writing captivated my mind and my mouth water with all of the appealing descriptions of foods. The story of overcoming grief and overcoming disassociation with your culture truly inspired deep thought in me. This book was truly wonderful, and I am so happy that I gave a chance. You should too. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

Moderate: Body shaming and Bullying

Minor: Abortion, Car accident, Violence, Infidelity, Medical content, and Alcohol

undecidedpersonality's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Alcohol, Excrement, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Cancer, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Vomit, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Child death, and Violence

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

ravenph's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Alcoholism and Racism