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heatherv's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Racism
Moderate: Bullying, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Abortion, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Incest, and Pregnancy
a_alves00's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Racism, Alcohol, Death, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Abortion, Cancer, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Infertility
ericah31's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse and Child abuse
Moderate: Racial slurs, Bullying, Death of parent, Violence, Alcoholism, and Blood
Minor: Abortion and Fire/Fire injury
briennebrienne's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Medical content, Racial slurs, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Cursing, Infertility, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Abortion, Child abuse, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts
ficklefoxreads's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
Moderate: Child abuse, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, Abortion, Alcoholism, Grief, Sexual assault, Rape, Medical content, Violence, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, and Addiction
trashcanmoose's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Racism, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, Cancer, Fire/Fire injury, Domestic abuse, Abortion, Animal death, Terminal illness, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Violence, and Racial slurs
Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Child abuse, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Incest
nebraskanwriter's review against another edition
5.0
This book is one that I know will stick with me.
Graphic: Abandonment, Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Death, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Slavery, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Rape, Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Vomit, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Excrement, Bullying, Cancer, Medical trauma, Racism, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Alcoholism, Animal death, Classism, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Body shaming, and Sexual harassment
chitch21's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Abortion, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Racism, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Addiction
coreyarch9's review against another edition
3.5
I love Annalise MF Keating, but I didn't know too much about Viola Davis. In Finding Me, Viola talks less about her career as an actress and more about the systemic poverty and racism and the coinciding internalized struggles that she had to overcome to be the woman we know today. And she doesn't hold anything back.
She talks a lot about what society deems beautiful, worthy, or correct. During her time at Juiliard, students were discouraged from hosting an MLK Day program or anything that might highlight their differences from their white counterparts. She talks about the typecast roles that she would be cast in or invited to audition for. She talks about what it was like to be called beautiful for the first time. She talks about therapy.
In the end, she talks about finding herself, writing, "I am no longer ashamed of me."
I will never know firsthand what it's like to experience the abject poverty and racism that Viola grew up with. And that's why it's so important to read about. When she talked about being called beautiful for the first time, I started to wonder, when was the last time I told somebody they were pretty? When was the last time I told a woman of color that she was beautiful? When was the last time I supported a black-owned café instead of just picking up a latte at my local Tim Hortons? When did I last show kindness to a stranger?
Moderate: Bullying, Classism, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Cancer, Child abuse, Addiction, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Rape, Abortion, and Sexism
Minor: Slavery, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, and Kidnapping
ladieswholunch's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse
Moderate: Abortion, Sexual assault, and Fire/Fire injury