Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot

76 reviews

theboricuabookworm's review against another edition

Gripping and raw. The lyrical way Mailhot writes about pain and trauma and grief will leave you gasping.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Rape, Suicide attempt, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Classism, Drug use, Sexual assault, and Alcohol

leweylibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.25

I'm struggling to rate this one because I don't feel like I have adequate words to do so?

I struggled with the format--or lack thereof really--and the audiobook narrator. I actually got like 35% through and then had to restart it waaaaay slower because I was finding myself missing things and not paying attention. I definitely think I would've done better with it reading it physically, there are just way too many poetic moments and literary devices at work for me to track on audio. I'm grateful for the Q&A style afterwords because it did clear up some of what the author was attempting to do. Like I now have a greater appreciation for the work she put into making her writing seem simple and punchy when while reading it, it mostly just felt jarring and hard to follow or stay invested in. 

The topics covered are obviously intense. Big trigger warnings for a lot. Covering them is absolutely vital to her story, though, and her journey towards reconciliation and healing.

Overall, I can tell it was brilliant, it just wasn't totally for me in this format. And that's okay and doesn't detract from the skill it took to write it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Pregnancy, Abortion, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Self harm, Abandonment, Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

carnimdream's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Addiction, Alcohol, Child abuse, Racism, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, and Violence

Minor: Abortion and Chronic illness

akmatz's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

3.25

I don't know if this style is for me. The prose is incredible, and the story, anger, and honesty are important. But the brutal honesty and lack of a sense of Terese as a person almost reads to me as dehumanizing. The substance of the book is difficult, but the voice is uncomfortable.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, Violence, Child abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Abortion, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, and Incest

Minor: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Eating disorder

lexicon3000's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This book tore me from the inside out and exposed me completely. I've had my eye on this read for a while, and I picked it up at the most perfect time, as I didn't realize just how much I would resonate with Mailhot's disease and how it disrupts her life. Just being diagnosed with Bipolar I had me spiraling for a little while, and though Mailhot was diagnosed with Bipolar II, I still felt every single symptom she detailed deep to my core. I want to hold her. I want to read everything she writes. I want to re-read this when I feel alone in my disease. I want more of her language, her writing style. Just utter perfection. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Sexual assault

ifpaint's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

Reading this book feels like hearing someone's inner monologue without them knowing. It is genuine and complex. Something I will sit with and think on for a while, I'm sure

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Child abuse

calcijade's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Self harm, Mental illness, Death of parent, and Alcoholism

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Medical content, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

biab00's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Suicide, Eating disorder, Death, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Pregnancy, Mental illness, and Abortion

frufai's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

5.0

Used the English language beautiful. Makes you think about the difference between love and obsession 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Suicide, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Grief, Child abuse, Death of parent, Rape, and Pregnancy