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watson_my_shelf's review against another edition
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Racism, Medical content, and Grief
Minor: Animal cruelty
nebraskanwriter's review against another edition
5.0
This book is one that I know will stick with me.
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
ireanirean's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse and Violence
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Infertility, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment
leahe13's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Domestic abuse and Sexual harassment
coolyanna's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, and Death of parent
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Drug abuse
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: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Excrement, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Classism
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment
askard's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Abortion, and Alcohol
kiomarys2000's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Grief, Abortion, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment
rebekah_florence's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual violence, Blood, Medical content, Abortion, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Drug abuse
herceia's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Drug use and Pedophilia