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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

28 reviews

shxndrareads's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

333amreen's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

VERY INSIGHTFUL!!! not just into a doctor's life and their relationship with their patients & their confrontation with life and death everyday! But also, into HIS life, Paul's beautiful life & his philosophies that were astounding. Overall, an emotional ride, especially the latter part!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Death of parent, Medical content, Eating disorder, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Vomit

garyosu's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

guinness74's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

I think this book’s importance might be understated. Kalanithi’s life and death (I really don’t think that’s a spoiler at this point) are the focal point, but it’s his observance of death and how to go about it from both the perspective of doctor and patient that are the most valuable in this book. That’s not to say it isn’t emotional and, at times, hard to read…it is. But, it is a sort of blueprint of the process of dying and having a life experience worth sharing on the way out. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Vomit, Terminal illness, and Death

greenlivingaudioworm's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Medical content, Pregnancy, Grief, and Vomit

bookish_bry's review

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Wow... this book really got to me. It's written very well and punches you in the gut. Paul's self-reflection at the end of his life hits hard. It was a hard book to get through, but it was very, very good. Don't read if you are not in the right emotional state. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Cancer, Death, Grief, and Medical content

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Pregnancy

Paul is a doctor and described his medical training somewhat explicitly when talking about dissecting cadavers.

millie_eevee's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Terminal illness, Death, Cancer, and Grief

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Blood, Suicide, and Vomit

thefemale_nickmiller's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Blood, Cancer, Chronic illness, Vomit, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

mdwsn27's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Grief, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Vomit, Medical trauma, Death, Medical content, Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood

madamelacy's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Terminal illness

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, and Medical content

Minor: Vomit and Pregnancy