Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

678 reviews

sabrinalefebvre's review

Dnf at 11% (47:56 minutes) on March 31st (2024)

Im just not enjoying this. It’s a lot more mundane than I thought and just not for me. I may come back to it later but im afraid that if I continue now, I’ll just give this a 2 ⭐️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Grief

Moderate: Cancer

emilyharmonica's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Infidelity, Alcohol, Excrement, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Cancer, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Grief, Drug use, and Abortion

book_gremlin42's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

cerebellum's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, and Death of parent

emoopossum's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death of parent

katesant's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Cancer, and Death of parent

spellygirl's review

reflective slow-paced

3.0

It wasn't bad, but from the reviews I've seen I expected a lot more. It was absolutely sad, but I was nowhere near crying or anything like that. There were a lot of descriptions of Korean food, which there were a bit too many of for me personally,

especially the eating live octopus thing.

 The audiobook was decently read, though I sped it up to 1.2, which I doesn't typically do. If you're into the topic and don't mind a lot of food descriptions, I would recommend giving it a try. I felt I learned more about Korean culture, and having issues communicating in your origin country. And of course the cancer journey and stuff, but I knew more about that to begin with. Overall I would probably have liked it better if it wasn't so hyped up and increased my expectations so much. 

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Infidelity, Abortion, Alcoholism, Car accident, Animal cruelty, Alcohol, and Animal death

saramassoudi's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Cancer, Abandonment, and Medical trauma

mcnan's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

I've never lost a parent. I'm not an only child. My race is as white as can be. That this story still managed to resonate with me was a testament to Zauner and her writing abilities. Her skill in picking up and noting minute details and feelings is incredible. 

I had the pleasure of listening to her give a book talk about this, but, admittedly, had not even read the book at the time. I wish I would have, because I would have experienced her presence with a new weight and understanding. 

Highly recommend the audiobook.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abortion and Alcoholism

allitacat's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, and Cancer