Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot

50 reviews

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

fink1129's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Grief, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Incest, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

eegred's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence and Child abuse

Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Self harm

jordansmoot's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Incest, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, and Sexual violence

mayaism_01's review

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

This was gut punch, after gut punch, after gut punch. I feel like I’ve been shattered into a million little pieces and I will never recover from this. I don’t think I’ve ever been possessed with so much anger while reading a book. I loved this so much. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Medical content, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Vomit, Eating disorder, and Abortion

stevia333k's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

3.5

usually I consider Adrienne Rich references to be an immediate DNF & didn't do so this time because it was only cited as an inspiration at the very end. In fact, the blurb my library gave in retrospect is basically trying to spin the Andrienne Rich influence -- that being said, besides some squicks, it was decent.

So this is by an author who wanted to challenge expectations about works written by indigenous authors. (I didn't pick up on how besides various marketable narratives -- i mean this in the way that both karl marx & the austrian school of economics are considered "controversial".)

Anyways, I read the book on the basis of family building & decolonization. The part about forgiveness being done in ceremonies instead of the white idea of "letting go", especially since I've struggled with that colonial dynamic too, except as a white settler I didn't have established ceremonies for context.

Admittedly I was kind of indifferent to the poetics I guess. The intersections were interesting enough.

in the interview at the end, there's 2 notes about influences on this book that the author mentions that explained the squicks I had with this book: 
- the bible (which went over my head because I'm not a Christian), 
- and Adrienne Rich (I already returned my copy of this book to the library & it was an audiobook, but the way the word "man" was used felt heteronormative & that "patriarchal" could've worked better. Like I think I figured it out via like argument from analogy with like settler vs indigenous & the fact she's mainly talking about 1 man in particular, but the lack of precision felt suspicious to me, and it turned out I was right.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Alcohol, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Incest, Infidelity, Ableism, Addiction, Medical content, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

spicycheesecake's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.75

Such a beautiful book. The writing is amazing, and the story being told is so captivating. I was immediately pulled in from the first page, and felt emotional the whole ride through.

There are many things I could not relate with, but I understood everything, and I felt like I was there -- spectating, watching, experiencing.

I've learned about myself and my own relationships just from seeing the perspectives in this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Racism, Drug use, Death of parent, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Torture, Suicide attempt, Grief, Death, Violence, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Self harm, Abandonment, Pregnancy, Drug abuse, and Cursing

Moderate: Abortion

stagasaurus's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Colonisation, Mental illness, Death of parent, Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Abortion, Child abuse, Abandonment, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Confinement, Eating disorder, Self harm, and Sexual content

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Terminal illness, Rape, Incest, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Animal death, Cancer, Murder, Self harm, Death, and Drug use

Residential schools, illnesses, rehab, divorce, foster home, teen marriage, child services, neglect, postpartum depression.