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Reviews tagging 'Death'
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell
4 reviews
fiaharringbook's review
5.0
Moderate: Misogyny, Adult/minor relationship, Terminal illness, Cancer, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Death
imstephtacular's review
4.5
I was riveted by every section (the Taylor swift chapter particularly kicked me right in the gut) and I kept rereading quotes aloud to my coworkers, my husband, anyone who would listen because I was learning so much, things were making sense, and I was overwhelmed by the day to day machinations that actually gave scientific names ascribed to them
Parts of this felt too cerebral and the language over my head so I simply allowed those to wash over me while I still retained the general ideas
Graphic: Cancer and Medical content
Moderate: Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Medical trauma
Minor: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Death of parent, Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexism, Genocide, War, Xenophobia, Alcohol, and Gun violence
aysha_blake's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Chronic illness, and Child death
theappendices's review
3.0
Favorite word or quote: dweebish
How it's written: This book was a bit different in tone then the other ones she has done. It felt more like the way Amanda speaks on her podcast. More herself. Which for the most part was easy to understand and enjoyable but... I had to look up literally 18 words.
Now, I am a university grad with a pretty extensive vocabulary but my god?! 18 words? It did feel a little bit like a cool laid back college girls well written essay but she decided to use a thesaurus at the last min to sound smarter by changing several words. Which unfortunately took me out of the read over and over. That's my only gripe.
Spice: 0
My ratings system:
☆ 1 star - read thru and bad
☆☆☆ 3 star - liked it, prob won't read again (this one)
☆☆☆☆☆ 5 star - left an impact, would read again
Moderate: Religious bigotry, Drug use, Death, and Cancer
Minor: Hate crime, Cannibalism, Bullying, Suicide, War, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, and Trafficking