Reviews tagging 'Grief'

En la casa de los sueños by Carmen Maria Machado

67 reviews

meleac07's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

As a queer, predominantly lesbian individual, this gave me perspective and made me feel, in a way, safe.
Seeing a woman so openly and explicitly talk through her experience with queer domestic abuse, it both hurt me to the very core of my being and gave me hope that some day, we could as a society, fully acknowledge and accept that queer people are not a different species, somehow immune or shut off from the experiences of heterosexual people.
I find a part of myself reflected in this story, and the author so eloquently told it in a way that made me feel a part of it somehow, like I could feel a mere fragment of her suffering and heartbreak. 
This story is both brave and powerful in every way.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

Moderate: Blood and Lesbophobia

Minor: Fatphobia and Animal death

hannibanani29's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Sexual content

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Drug use, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Physical abuse, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, and Grief

Minor: Animal death, Death, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Biphobia, Blood, Cancer, Car accident, Dementia, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

snowydaze's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

Words cannot describe how deeply I enjoyed this book. The strange format flowed nicely and worked well when listening to the audiobook. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Sexual content, Body shaming, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Violence, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, and Grief

Minor: Alcohol and Blood

toffishay's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

What an amazing, powerful, interesting, and informative read. The formatting of this book pulls you in, with each "chapter" representing the story of this relationship from a different literary genre or device. I read this book so quickly and you are pulling in with every word. It is certainly emotional and I teared up more than once. This is a memoir about domestic abuse, so I would certainly look up trigger warnings. But, I find this to have been such a valuable and engaging reading experience that I absolutely have to recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Violence, Alcohol, Biphobia, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, Sexual violence, Vomit, Torture, Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicidal thoughts

jurizprudence's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

“ . . . you can be hurt by people who look just like you. Not only can it happen, it probably will, because the world is full of hurt people who hurt people.”

so beautifully-written, brutal in its honesty, and heartbreaking.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Biphobia, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Lesbophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Drug use, Mental illness, Alcohol, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Sexism

Minor: Racism, Classism, Bullying, Confinement, Dementia, and Pregnancy

shanbles's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Grief, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Infidelity

miryame's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Biphobia

such a beautiful and well done description of abuse and what it feels like

nataliereadz's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

3.5

Incredible format for a memoir and masterfully written. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Grief, Emotional abuse, and Cursing

gingerale06's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Violence

emilywasbored's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Cursing, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Homophobia, Fatphobia, Biphobia, Lesbophobia, Drug use, Body shaming, and Grief

Minor: Adult/minor relationship