Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis

203 reviews

jessspeake's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Medical content, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Rape, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Cancer, Medical trauma, Racism, Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

buud_w0rm's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

This book. This is the most inspiring story. So much respect and admiration for this woman. Everyone should know her story!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Violence, and Racism

Moderate: Sexual violence, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Classism, Domestic abuse, and Sexual assault

I’m just so… hopeful and full of motivation after this story. She’s truly one of a kind.

meredythp's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence and Domestic abuse

Minor: Alcoholism

stephanieheld's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Death of parent, Cancer, Racism, Bullying, and Gore

Moderate: Abortion, Alcoholism, and Sexual violence

Minor: Incest and Addiction

laurenology's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Racism, Alcoholism, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Abortion, Grief, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Drug abuse

sparringego8's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Domestic abuse, Abortion, Alcohol, Drug use, Cancer, Child death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Pregnancy, Racism, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Grief, and Addiction

maria1085's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Wow! What an amazing book! I listened to this on audio and hearing Viola Davis talk about her life was so powerful. She went through so much growing up. Poverty, an alcoholic/abusive father, food insecurity, sexual abuse. And after all that she still became the woman she is today. She was a fighter, and strong, and determined to get herself out. Her relationship with her father was probably the most difficult to hear about. The thing he did to her mother were unspeakable but by the end it turned into a redemption story and the love she has for him was unconditional. I really found her to be an amazing storyteller, I love her as an actress and definitely want to see more with her in it. I HIGHLY recommend this book, especially the audio. I don’t normally rate memoirs but if I did this would absolutely get 5 ⭐️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Rape, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Sexual assault, Racial slurs, and Racism

ladyjtm's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Stunning. This singular voice captured me the first time I saw her on screen in the film Doubt. I remember being bored with the pace of the film until Viola came on screen and commanded my attention. I wondered “Who is this woman?” The tears came so fast as I sat forward in my seat to try and really see her. I followed her work since then and when she appeared for the first time as Annalise Keating I thought “Oh this is who she is!” Hearing Viola confirm how Annalise had all the complexity she needed as an actor to really explore herself was a thrill. Her lesson on knowing there is a difference between being real and transparent hits hard.  I could not put this down. I could not stop listening. I ugly cried in the final 20 minutes because of the power of this singular voice that has commanded my attention since the first time I heard it in 2008. This is definitely an audiobook experience worthy of your time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Violence, and Domestic abuse

heisiiri's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring medium-paced

4.75

Viola Davis is exactly the kind of person who should be writing a memoir, and she executed it amazingly. That's it, that's the review. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Racism

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Terminal illness, Death of parent, and Alcoholism

Minor: Animal cruelty and Drug abuse

anastasia_raf's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

I don't think you can "rate" a person's life, so I'm just rating the pacing, the writing and the overall composition of the book.
I kept reading and reading and often wondered how did she kept on going? I know What kept her going, but still...how was that enough? A lot of her experiences brought me to tears, terrified me, and made me think of how lucky I am and how much protection, opportunity and "luck" White privilege provides.
Viola Davis is an incredible actor and so very talented in so many fields.
There were a lot of quotes from this memoir that stuck with me.
Here's one of them: "stop making love to something that's killing you."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Classism, Domestic abuse, Grief, Alcohol, Child abuse, Misogyny, Addiction, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Violence, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Rape