Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot

28 reviews

honeyvoiced's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Sexual harassment, and Pregnancy

Minor: Rape and Violence

seeceeread's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad

💭 "Séliš stories are a lot like its art: sparse and interested in blank space; the work must be striking."

This is a torrent. Relentless, stream-of-conscious nonsequiturs circle back to each other. The book is a menacing bath of tales:

assault and need and love and violence and therapy and mothering and child separation and tenderness and despair and and and

. Mailhot seems to want to purge the hurt, to exorcise her uncertainty by naming: she has felt, craved, demanded, retreated. 

I winced to witness, to relive so intimately all that has sliced her.

The author nicks as she tells us of the small ladder she carved into her arm while pregnant.

Like her girlhood self, we are coaxed and cornered into small spaces with the grotesque, wondering if it's safe to speak, to look away. I wanted to hold her at times, a quiet listener as an irregular heartbeat sang of heartache. At others, I wanted to run away, to commit violence against her selfish lover and to snap her into nonchalance. These whiplashes of emotion and intention mirror hers, further evidence she submerged me.

💭 "The tips of your fingers felt like wet grapes. I wanted to bite every one."

Expect to be nipped.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Violence, Abandonment, Classism, Colonisation, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide, and Child abuse

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Colonisation, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Classism

dakotahreads's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abortion, Death of parent, Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Incest, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

mereileen's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Pedophilia, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, and Sexual assault

stevie's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Mental illness, Incest, Death, Death of parent, Violence, Sexual assault, Sexism, Self harm, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Grief, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Racism, Racial slurs, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Colonisation

hannaheiserman's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Toxic relationship, Racial slurs, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Grief, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

atsundarsingh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

This was so, so hard to read. It was incredibly poetic, but also one of the rawest things I have ever read, and so painful. This is so intimate and personal, I almost can't believe the author shared all of this. Mailhot is so inspiring, and so intense. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Colonisation, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Grief, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Violence

planreadrepeat's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Confinement, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Self harm

mercourier's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

3.75

She is an amazing writer and reading her work will cut you in a million ways. It's hard to read but beautifully done. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Child abuse

margothere's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, and Self harm