Reviews tagging 'Vomit'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

118 reviews

madreadings's review

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

absolutely heartbreaking and beautiful 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Vomit

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

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

kaylaswhitmore's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I may just be biased, since I am also a Korean-American woman who grew up in Eugene, Oregon…but this memoir is certainly a gift to all who read it, and especially children of Asian immigrants. Words can’t quite describe the bizarre, surreal experience I had reading Michelle’s recollections. In between reeling emotionally from the similarities between her mother and my own, I would find myself blinking as familiar staples of my Eugene hometown popped up on every other page. Though my childhood and relationship to my mother is still quite different from Michelle’s, there were still so many things that struck me as familiar—like a funhouse mirror. Her use of emotion to paint such vivid pictures of the intangible truly drew me in and held me from the very first chapter. Someday, when the ache of her loss and the fear of losing my own mother fades, I will return to this book and reread it anew. For now, I’ll sit here in silence for a bit and cry lol.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Fatphobia, Grief, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Car accident, Infidelity, and Body shaming

Minor: Vomit

brown_nat's review

reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Death of parent, Terminal illness, and Vomit

uhohzmia's review

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

i really love how the emphasis was on food and how it related to michelle’s relationship with her mom, even if they had some differences. although i’m not korean i still identified with the story closely being a child of immigrant parents growing up in a western environment.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Terminal illness

Moderate: Death of parent, Excrement, and Vomit

leanneymu's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

Moderate: Vomit

Beautifully-written, heart-wrenching memoir about grief, loss, and learning to cope during and after a parent's death. Unflinching and insightful - a really resonnate piece of writing.

nicholas_sparks's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Vomit and Car accident

bethsreading's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

This is a gorgeously written and heartbreaking memoir exploring the depths of family, grief, and trying to exist as yourself. Truly beautiful. 

(I do not give star ratings for memoirs) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, Grief, Vomit, Cancer, Alcoholism, Death of parent, and Medical content

Moderate: Mental illness, Infidelity, Excrement, Abortion, and Racism