Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Nella casa dei tuoi sogni by Carmen Maria Machado

150 reviews

sarah_hutchins's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Biphobia, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Body shaming, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, and Suicidal thoughts

drgnhrt968's review against another edition

dark emotional informative tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

bebidocrimes's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

This feels like it should be required reading for every young queer person. It really expresses the importance of breaking the utopian lense with which we regard queer relationships. It feels especially poignant to me as someone who sees herself as less desirable and has accepted whatever attention she could get in the past. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

salemander's review against another edition

5.0

one of the most beautiful written and formatted books i’ve ever read. the looming sense of dread throughout as she falls deeper into abuse was heartbreaking, yet she fills the narrative with reminders that she will be free and it will not last forever. a gorgeous memoir.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

rosemaryandrue's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.75

Machado tackles the story of her relationship with an emotionally abusive woman, using a series of narrative tropes to approach the complex topic.

I've had this book on my to-read list for a while now, intrigued by the innovative structuring of the memoir. The writing is lush, dark and dreamlike, plunging the reader headfirst into the chaotic whirlpool of Machado's experience. In every section, she pecks at the crystallized past from different angles, and you are really pulled into the difficulty of unravelling something so dense and disjointed and senseless. It made my eyes ache.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, and Alcoholism

handful_of_frogs's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Body shaming, Bullying, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Gaslighting

abigailstone10's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Biphobia, Blood, Grief, and Homophobia

thewrongalice's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Misogyny, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Suicidal thoughts

iwishihadmoretimetoread's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Homophobia, Drug use, Dysphoria, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Body shaming, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Gaslighting, Cursing, Lesbophobia, Vomit, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Dementia and Drug abuse

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Lesbophobia, Medical content, and Vomit

Moderate: Animal death, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, Infidelity, Biphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Torture, Death, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexual assault, Rape, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, and Confinement

Minor: Dementia, Pandemic/Epidemic, War, Bullying, Gun violence, and Stalking