Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick

5 reviews

jenniesreadingjourney's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, War, Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Classism, Child abuse, Murder, Confinement, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Racism

Moderate: Cursing, Gaslighting, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Slavery, Alcoholism, Cancer, Infidelity, Abortion, Medical trauma, Deportation, Hate crime, and Police brutality

bilbili's review

emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Violence, Torture, Child death, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Gun violence

Minor: Cannibalism and Abandonment

kieranyes's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Medical trauma, and Grief

Moderate: Slavery, Mental illness, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, and Trafficking

Minor: Abandonment, Deportation, Colonisation, and Kidnapping

parasolcrafter's review

challenging emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

5.0

this is another one of those books that ive read that i really dont know what to say because it really does speak for itself. i really appreciate how in depth it went into everything because North Korea really isnt a country i knew much about going into it and the atrocities that went on there, so this book is quite invaluable in the knowledge it has

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Emotional abuse, Suicide, War, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Animal cruelty, Death, Genocide, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Medical content, Abortion, Addiction, Animal death, Confinement, Death of parent, Deportation, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Sexism, Slavery, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Terminal illness, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, Pregnancy, Torture, Trafficking, Colonisation, Murder, Racism, Rape, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, and Drug use

Moderate: Excrement and Cannibalism

helenamichelle's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Medical trauma, Torture, Classism, Violence, Suicide, Death, Sexual violence, and Grief