Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

18 reviews

lindcherry's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Medical content and Blood

Minor: Abortion and Addiction

pabi's review

emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

beautiful and honest. I love it with all i have.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Bullying, Cancer, Grief, Alcohol, Medical content, Mental illness, Alcoholism, and Blood

ienbdri's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Blood, Medical content, and Abortion

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

bashsbooks's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

A love letter to the complicated relationship between mother and child, Crying in H Mart navigates the grief of losing loved ones and the grief of being disconnected from your culture. Zauner has an incredible and strong voice, ripe with unique observations and striking linguistic choices. And tracing these emotion and relationships through food? Brilliant. 

Now I'm going to listen to Japanese Breakfast's Psychopomp.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Racism

Minor: Blood, Body shaming, Car accident, Infidelity, and Vomit

maddiet425's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Minor: Gore, Vomit, Blood, Abortion, Alcoholism, and Car accident

taroroot's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

loved the descriptions of food and how that reminded her of her mother

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Blood, and Drug use

Minor: Emotional abuse

bookishkale's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast weaves her heartbreaking tale of the loss of her mother into formation. She had me captured by her story, of her fears and her hopes, her losses and her gains, her failures and her successes on the backdrop of something so awful. She is a brilliant writer, doing her best to find some ease in her pain and I am blown away. Her finding her heritage through food is heartwarming. I just want to thank her for putting her story into words like this, I cannot imagine how hard it must have been. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Mental illness

Minor: Abortion, Racism, and Bullying

gabriella_'s review

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

I am in awe of this book. I cried many times reading it.

A lot of this book I personally resonated with. While I am not Korean, the mother-daughter bonding, themes of feeling disconnected from culture, grief, and transcending love of food hit very hard. Zauner finds a way to bring a personal story up and close to the reader. She has a way with words.

I can’t express how grateful I am to read this book. It feels like a warm hug. I hope anyone who has struggled with grief, especially those who mourn a mom or motherly figure, walk away from this book with even a shred of comfort. There is so much I want to say, so much thanks I want to pay the author for being as vulnerable as she was. And so much I want to thank her for, for expressing how painful her journey has been.

Some lines of this book really stuck with me, and I’ll end this review with one that made me audibly sob.

When one person collapses, the other instinctively shoulders their weight.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Alcohol, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcoholism, Blood, Mental illness, Grief, and Cancer

Moderate: Cursing

hanbuckley19's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

 Beautiful beautiful beautiful 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Addiction

Minor: Car accident and Blood