Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen

52 reviews

lghrndn's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, and Addiction

Moderate: Infidelity, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, and Medical content

Minor: Pregnancy, Adult/minor relationship, and Cancer

creepycapybara's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

lmshearer's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

A sad, dark collection of memoirs by the Danish poet Tove Ditlevsen. Check the CW below as the story has a lot of possible triggering elements.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Abortion, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

kabina_prysznicowa's review

5.0

a heart wrenchingly sad book that drains your joy away. absolutely amazing though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and War

samarakroeger's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Mental illness, Abortion, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

klimts15thchild's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

It’s honest, it’s tragic, it’s straightforward, and now I have to ready everything by Ditlevsen translated into English.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Infidelity, Abortion, and Mental illness

millakk's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Antisemitism and Alcoholism

chezler24's review

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

I was not previously familiar with this author's works prior to reading this series of memoirs by her so it was interesting to see this person's life from youth going into adulthood. At moments, it was hard for me to fully connect with Ditlevsen and her choices; however, this could easily be explained by generational and cultural (and honestly just personal) differences. It was interesting to see the development of a woman writer and a poet as she had to deal with a poor upbringing, difficulties being taken seriously, and the expectations of a woman/mother. The turn at the end with the addiction and rehab kind of caught me off guard. Up until then Tove had been able to handle and work through any difficulties, but this particular thing (exacerbated by her husband's psychosis) really hampered her writing and overall quality of life until she was able to find a more stable sense of recovery. Collectively, this is a raw, intimate look into the life of an individual.   

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Medical content, Abortion, Death, and Pregnancy

Minor: Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Terminal illness, and War

lhulmes19's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Drug abuse, Addiction, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship

edytaworyna's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Blood, and Addiction