Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

14 reviews

scmiller's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cancer, Death of parent, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Body horror, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Vomit

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Abortion, Bullying, Car accident, Drug use, Racism, Addiction, Drug abuse, Excrement, Fatphobia, and Mental illness

Minor: Infidelity and Religious bigotry

pseudolain's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abortion

Minor: Car accident

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

2.5

I don't even really know what to say, but I will try to put something about the reading experience into words.

It was alright.  I teared up a few times.  The descriptions of food were verbose and evocative, sometimes excessively so.  I love Maangchi.

This is a story of grief and mourning, of finding your identity and how it changes as you grow, relationships and connections.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Alcohol, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Death, Excrement, and Fatphobia

Minor: Abortion, Body shaming, Drug use, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Car accident, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Eating disorder, Religious bigotry, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, and Sexism

marippe's review

emotional sad medium-paced

4.5

A very emotional and complex look into a multi-cultured mother-daughter relationship, how it can struggle but also contain so much love, and incredible amount of grief.
This book is very detailed and that helps capture the story and feel like you're living it, but also is very detailed about the stuff I wasn't as interested in. The story's non linear elements, particularly at the start didn't really do it for me.
Overall a really good read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Cancer, Xenophobia, Terminal illness, Infidelity, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, and Drug abuse

melissa_b_67's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Medical content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Body horror, and Cancer

Moderate: Alcoholism and Mental illness

samarshall's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Car accident, Medical content, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Grief, Body horror, and Death

Moderate: Alcohol, Vomit, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, and Addiction

Minor: Infidelity

mpurdy's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

So well written. I was moved to tears in many parts. It was difficult to read her raw storytelling of her mother's journey battling cancer and her ultimate loss. Her writing was so effortless that it made the discussions on grief, guilt, regret easy to feel and understand. 
I loved the descriptions of food and how she connected not only to her mother but to her korean roots through it.
I just wanted to give Michelle a hug 🫂 and tell her how proud her mother would be of her. And how we all make mistakes as adolescents and young adults but its how we grow from them.
What a great start to the new year.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Body horror, Excrement, Terminal illness, Vomit, Car accident, and Medical content

miggyfool's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Car accident, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

Moderate: Abortion and Emotional abuse

mikah_wazowski's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Death of parent, and Medical content

Moderate: Drug use, Car accident, and Religious bigotry

flowchelle's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Medical content, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, and Body horror