Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Being Lolita: A Memoir by Alisson Wood

12 reviews

tpantozzi's review against another edition

challenging reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Self harm, and Body shaming

voicenextdoor's review

informative medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Fatphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Mental illness, and Gaslighting

hanhodge's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Rape, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Adult/minor relationship

madelinequinne's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

A hard and heartbreaking memoir to get through, but so important. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Blood, Child abuse, Rape, Pedophilia, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Bullying, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Body shaming, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Self harm

helenamichelle's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

librarymouse's review

emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

Alisson Wood's accounts of her youth and struggles with mental health are incredibly tangible and relatable. The way she writes, weaving the narrative of how she was told to perceive her being groomed by her teacher, with the reality of the situation and the storyline in the novel Lolita make for very engaging storytelling without trivializing the memories and issues she explores. To use Lolita as a lense, framed as a love story, through which to view their relationship and then recommend Alisson go to school for English implies that Nick Norris either profoundly stupid or incredibly vain.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Vomit, Body shaming, Infidelity, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Sexual assault, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexism

kash's review

dark sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, and Gaslighting

Minor: Body shaming

breadwitchery's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Rape, Pedophilia, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Alcohol

Moderate: Self harm, Suicide attempt, Body shaming, Panic attacks/disorders, and Vomit

Minor: Cursing

jmcordero's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Grief, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, and Sexism

litltlehistorian's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful fast-paced

3.25

<spoilers> 
This book was a reflection on the child abuse of a girl in her late teens. A testament to the past and a way to move forward. Unfortunately, my critiscm of this book would be the romanticisation of some aspects (I understand this was from her perspective), as well as the surface level analysis of mental health and sexual abuse. Overall, this was still a very personal journey from the author whose story I would not discredit. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Body shaming and Bullying

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Stalking, and Toxic relationship