Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

377 reviews

katy_heath's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative sad slow-paced

4.75

Don’t read while hungry, I did skim a few parts closer to the end to finish before due date. Most of these were step by step instructions for recipes the author made.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content

jessi_c's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I went into this with the full intention of not knowing anything about the premise or the author. And what an absolute joy and privilege to get to know this small family. A galaxy made from violence, gravity, and time. And the world receives every form of art that has grown from this grief in grand abundance. I will happily help to carry the weight and celebrate her life. I see her mother in my mother.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

Moderate: Medical content, Grief, and Mental illness

Minor: Alcoholism, Body shaming, and Drug abuse

laurenlsmith's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death and Medical content

Minor: Body shaming

mondayn's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Physical abuse, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Cancer, Body horror, and Death of parent

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Alcohol, Xenophobia, and Alcoholism

There is intimate, horrified handling of a dead body

You will get several Korean recipes lodged into prose

flamesocks's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Drug use, Grief, Car accident, Alcohol, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Medical content, Toxic relationship, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Abortion

linearev's review against another edition

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

4.75

So, I have been reading a lot of Korean and Japanese book lately, a campaign kicked off by the ‘before the coffee gets cold’ series and intensefied by Sayaka Murata. And so when I picked up this book, I fully expected to at least like it. 
However, I was not in the slightest, ready, for the heavy hitting force of the fact, that this is a self biography. A portrait of no the the Korean minority in USA but also of a complicated relationship between a mother and daughter. A generational tradition of complicated love and amazing food. It introduces the reader to the inner workings of someone who is both rather relatable as she is partly American, yet also somewhat astranged (from someone who grew up so differently). And yet, the brilliance of her writing reveals itself by letting us into her Korean side and guiding us through that world. It left me feeling both entertained yet also more knowledgeable each time I finished a chapter. Because somehow she balanced this complicated self portrait with humor which created the sort of entertainment often found in fictional books. 
All to say that this was very good. It sort of reminds me of the new and popular “I’m glad my mom died” which ironically takes the opposite stance of the maternal relation between the main people, yet left me with the same feeling of stepping out of the life of someone compelling and complicated. I liked it enormously and hope to read more from her soon.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Toxic relationship, Grief, Mental illness, Death of parent, Medical content, Vomit, and Terminal illness

archaicrobin's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Zauner’s memoir touches on her music career and the beginnings of Japanese Breakfast but the main focus is on the loss of her mother to cancer. 

Zauner does not shy away from the difficult story of her mother’s decline and being the first line of defense and support as the cancer slowly takes her mother away. This memoir is phenomenal, heart wrenching, and beautiful. It was difficult to read at times from how bleak it is at moments, but Zauner’s prose and focus on moving on despite her loss is inspiring. I have been a fan of Japanese Breakfast for years but I am not also a dedicated fan to her as an author as well. Highly recommend reading and listing to Michell Zauner’s works!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, Grief, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, and Medical content

ieotter13's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

what a gorgeous book, words flowing from story to story, a deeply personal insight into michelle’s life and journey through grief. 

the haverford and bryn mawr references towards the beginning were pretty cool to know — 100% a must read for bico students 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Body shaming, Vomit, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Drug use, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, and Blood

Minor: Child abuse and Abortion

mikaylawood's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Blood, Excrement, and Animal death

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Medical content, and Death of parent

Moderate: Racism, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Abortion

Minor: Drug abuse and Physical abuse