Reviews tagging 'Self harm'

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi

22 reviews

percivilious's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, War, and Violence

Moderate: Police brutality, Grief, Gun violence, Misogyny, Addiction, Drug use, Murder, and Sexism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Classism, Infidelity, Self harm, and Sexual harassment

lynxpardinus's review

challenging emotional informative reflective

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Sexism, Suicide attempt, Self harm, War, Police brutality, Racism, Xenophobia, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Violence, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Confinement

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Excrement, Infidelity, Sexual content, Alcohol, Classism, Death of parent, Hate crime, Homophobia, Medical content, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Fatphobia, Rape, Blood, and Body horror

ma_nina's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.25

A bit too fast paced for my liking, which meant I got confused at times. Amazing story though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, War, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Police brutality, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

readandfindout's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

4.25

Style/writing: 4 stars
Themes: 4.5 stars
Perspective: 4.5 stars
Art: 4 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Racism, Suicide attempt, Religious bigotry, Violence, Addiction, Death, War, Misogyny, Sexism, Police brutality, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Gun violence, Xenophobia, Child death, Islamophobia, Drug abuse, and Blood

Moderate: Torture and Self harm

waytoomanybooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

It's books like this that make it evermore apparent that an American "education" is incomplete at best. I didn't know 95% of the events Satrapi described, yet she presented her story in great detail, but in a way that was easy to follow and understand. She is a wonderful storyteller and provides rich details. And her artwork is both simple and evocative. I really enjoyed this graphic novel collection!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Classism, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Self harm, Sexism, Blood, Death, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Violence, and War

girlgetsbook's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This book is beautiful, sad and haunting, it is so much more than a memoir of one single person and in fact a memoir of a gender, of a generation, and it is both inspiring and scary to see how much this person overcame in her lifetime and how much she fought and how far she came despite all the challenges she faced. I can't say much about this, I don't feel well equipped to, just, please, read this book if you're reading this, it will change your life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Xenophobia, War, Suicide attempt, Police brutality, Murder, Violence, Sexual harassment, Self harm, Misogyny, and Torture

angebrown's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Police brutality, Murder, War, Torture, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Rape, and Suicide attempt

aseel_reads's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

this was a really easy to read and insightful novel. I don't know much Iranian history, so I learnt a lot about this. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Death, Dysphoria, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, War, Violence, Torture, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Self harm, Police brutality, and Medical content

Minor: Cursing, Islamophobia, Misogyny, and Rape

shaunaxx's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Child death, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Gun violence, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Police brutality, Racism, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Torture, and Violence

thebechdelbitch's review against another edition

dark informative reflective fast-paced

Gosh darn, this book is hecking good. It's as informative as it is emotional, and it's absolutely heart-breaking in places. I would go so far as to say it's essential reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Xenophobia