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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

29 reviews

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

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

thewordsdevourer's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

meditative and powerful, when breath becomes air journeys kalanithi's confrontation with his own close mortality, bringing to ironic physical fruition his lifelong reflection on life and death. 

detailing his time in med school, the subsequent residency, and his diagnosis and treatment, kalanithi weaves the tale of a man in the unwanted yet unique position of being both a doctor and a patient, providing a rare POV of being on both sides of medical care. the memoir is seeped w/ an undercurrent of calm and mulling, all held tgt by kalanithi's poignant writing. im v glad that he's written and left this book as part of his legacy.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Pregnancy, Grief, and Blood

Minor: Suicide and Child death

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

caro6408's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Blood, Vomit, and Car accident

Minor: Pregnancy

chireadsandchill's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Vomit and Pregnancy

beetandbaguette's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death, Vomit, and Pregnancy

parasolcrafter's review

emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

i needed a good chunk of time to let this book sit with me because it was soooo impactful, and much more than i had prepared myself for. its just...living in its rawest state; learning to know a man in his own words as he comes to terms with his life in the past, present, but not future as hes very quickly dying...its a lot to read about but Paul Kalanithi had such a way with words and for that many people will always be grateful to him and he'll always be remembered. i wish the best to his family 💖

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Chronic illness, Medical content, Pregnancy, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, and Suicide