Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

22 reviews

reneeandreea's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

An insane attention to detail in otherwise mundane, day-to-day life. Makes you feel like one of the characters; Frances is both relatable and flawed. You couldn’t really love any character and you couldn’t really hate any character either, which I think is a lot like real life.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Self harm, Infidelity, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Abortion, Abandonment, Alcohol, Mental illness, and Sexual content

Minor: Emotional abuse, Death, Toxic relationship, Infertility, Drug use, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Body shaming, Classism, and Toxic friendship

sage_honey's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Everyone has been recommending this book, saying you can really relate to many characters as a woman in this society, but I didn’t feel it…

the characters were strangely likeable even though I didn’t agree with many of their actions or opinions.

At first I thought the book was really interesting. But in the end there were too many small things I didn’t like, especially about the main character. 
I understand that characters don’t need to be loveable for book to be good. 
But I felt like some things were left unexplained, not natural to the person, and some traits felt like they were forcibly pushed into a character.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity and Sexual content

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, and Self harm

hjhannah_4's review against another edition

DBF at 230 pages. I really tried you guys. Not even Taylor Swift could help get me through this book. Unfortunately it is not possible to give a zero star rating. Seriously, save yourself the headache, the time, and the braincells.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Infertility, Lesbophobia, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Pregnancy, Infidelity, Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Medical content, and Fatphobia

vixenreader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

The ending leaves a lot to be desired, especially with the character of Bobbi, but it is still an incredible novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Infidelity, Chronic illness, Medical content, Sexual content, Cursing, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Classism, Outing, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Blood, Emotional abuse, Lesbophobia, and Biphobia

Minor: Miscarriage, Bullying, and Sexism

There are explicit details about endometriosis and I found Bobbi to be an awful friend who exploits Frances, but does not take accountability for her own shitty actions.

lb781's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Chronic illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Infidelity

Moderate: Miscarriage, Blood, Infertility, Lesbophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, and Alcoholism

agentsofromanov's review

challenging emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Self harm, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, and Eating disorder

Minor: Toxic relationship, Chronic illness, and Body shaming

yourwordsalitmatch's review

dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I loved the writing style of this book. I had to get used to it first but the way Sally Rooney writes feels very authentic and honest.
For the book: It was good. But there where a few things that really bothered me (hence the 3.75 stars). Mental health is a very big issue in the book. And I don't mean the fact that we learn about Nick's past problems. The main characters mental health (and also her dad's) is rapidly getting worse and it never really gets addressed properly in the book. Maybe that is done on purpose but I don't really understand why (if it's in purpose)? I was waiting for someone close to Francis to act or at least mention it. Especially Nick given the fact the he knows what it's like to be severly depressed?? At some point it almost felt illogical to me that no one ever talked about it. Big parts of Francis behavior (and development along the story) reminded me of the Bell jar. Maybe this is going over my head but I just don't get how mental health, self harm, suicidal thoughts, severe depressiv episodes can be such a big focus of a book without ever being relevant to the story in any way. I hope anyone understands what I'm trying to say here. It's not easy to explain what I mean. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Blood

Minor: Body shaming, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Infertility, Vomit, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, and Physical abuse

dannythestreet's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, and Self harm

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Cursing, Dysphoria, Physical abuse, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, and Infertility

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Car accident, Eating disorder, Alcohol, Classism, Cultural appropriation, Death, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Homophobia, Police brutality, Sexual violence, and War

caroline_cm's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

I find it very hard to like any of the characters, although at times I could briefly simpatize with them. Seems the story was just way to say that white privileged middle class people have feelings and complicated relationships too even if they’re spending over a month in a different country during the summer. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Body shaming, Infidelity, Medical content, Mental illness, and Self harm

Moderate: Eating disorder, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

emmat99's review against another edition

emotional funny sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Mental illness, and Chronic illness