Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

22 reviews

taroroot's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

loved the descriptions of food and how that reminded her of her mother

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Medical content, Cancer, and Death of parent

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Blood, and Drug use

Minor: Emotional abuse

bookishkale's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast weaves her heartbreaking tale of the loss of her mother into formation. She had me captured by her story, of her fears and her hopes, her losses and her gains, her failures and her successes on the backdrop of something so awful. She is a brilliant writer, doing her best to find some ease in her pain and I am blown away. Her finding her heritage through food is heartwarming. I just want to thank her for putting her story into words like this, I cannot imagine how hard it must have been. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Cancer, Medical content, Mental illness, Grief, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Blood, Chronic illness, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Mental illness

Minor: Abortion, Racism, and Bullying

gabriella_'s review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

I am in awe of this book. I cried many times reading it.

A lot of this book I personally resonated with. While I am not Korean, the mother-daughter bonding, themes of feeling disconnected from culture, grief, and transcending love of food hit very hard. Zauner finds a way to bring a personal story up and close to the reader. She has a way with words.

I can’t express how grateful I am to read this book. It feels like a warm hug. I hope anyone who has struggled with grief, especially those who mourn a mom or motherly figure, walk away from this book with even a shred of comfort. There is so much I want to say, so much thanks I want to pay the author for being as vulnerable as she was. And so much I want to thank her for, for expressing how painful her journey has been.

Some lines of this book really stuck with me, and I’ll end this review with one that made me audibly sob.

When one person collapses, the other instinctively shoulders their weight.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Alcohol, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcoholism, Blood, Mental illness, Grief, and Cancer

Moderate: Cursing

hanbuckley19's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

 Beautiful beautiful beautiful 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Addiction

Minor: Car accident and Blood

kcelena's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Racial slurs, Car accident, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death of parent, Drug use, Alcohol, Cancer, Death, Racism, Terminal illness, Grief, Infidelity, and Medical content

Moderate: Abortion

handful_of_frogs's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Grief, and Medical content

Moderate: Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Car accident, Terminal illness, and Vomit

Minor: Racism

skylaturner's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, Terminal illness, Medical content, Blood, Death of parent, Death, Excrement, and Vomit

Moderate: Car accident and Addiction

bookswithgeorgia's review against another edition

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Vomit, Death of parent, Abortion, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, Cancer, and Blood

alyx's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Vomit, Body horror, Chronic illness, Grief, Medical trauma, Excrement, Cancer, Blood, Cursing, Medical content, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Car accident, Drug use, and Mental illness

Minor: Racism, Emotional abuse, Car accident, and Abortion

smaber23's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This book will make you call your mother more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Drug use, Grief, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Terminal illness, and Vomit

Moderate: Car accident, Cursing, and Medical content

Minor: Animal death, Abandonment, Abortion, Racism, Sexual content, and Xenophobia