Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Rememberings by Sinéad O'Connor

8 reviews

baileyana's review against another edition

informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Child abuse

amycourts's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

5.0

Oh Sinead. Reading this on audiobook brought back so many feelings and memories, and I ended up switching back and forth between it and her music a lot. She was such a gift to this world, and I’m so glad to have heard her story in her own voice. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Police brutality, Death of parent, Death, Grief, Forced institutionalization, Bullying, Addiction, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

pasteli's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.25

Sinéad is evidently one of those rare people who rose to fame not because they wanted to, but because it was in their fate to have a platform to be able to help others.  She has a commitment to honesty and integrity that I wish the rest of the world had.  It is truly heartbreaking to read the end of the book knowing that she passed.  Rest in peace 🕊️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Violence

Moderate: Sexism, Mental illness, Racism, Pedophilia, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Misogyny

Minor: Miscarriage, Death of parent, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Death, Cursing, Transphobia, Pregnancy, Pandemic/Epidemic, Mental illness, Medical content, Infidelity, Grief, Domestic abuse, and Eating disorder

sineadmcn's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Child abuse, Self harm, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, Grief, Eating disorder, Drug use, Physical abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders

bearpolar's review

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Drug use

Moderate: Death of parent, Eating disorder, and Mental illness

Minor: Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, and Miscarriage

lindsaylhunter's review against another edition

funny hopeful slow-paced

3.5

A really interesting dive into O'Connor's mind. I found how she jumped from one place to the next kind of frustrating until I realised that that in itself gave the best understanding of the contours of her mind.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide attempt

beac's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Suicide attempt, Violence, Drug abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Eating disorder

Minor: Racism and Panic attacks/disorders

travelseatsreads's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

I feel like I need to preface this review by saying I've a huge amount of respect for Sinead and the work she did to highlight the atrocities of the Irish church. My review is completely based on the book and how it reads.

First of all the book is being marketed as a tell-all memoir in which Sinead details her story through the years, unfortunately it doesn't read that way. To me it felt about 20% memoir and 80% discography. There are parts where she talks about her childhood abuse and a quick chapter about her children at the end however the rest feels like tid bits of sentences thrown into paragraph upon paragraph about her songs.
While it was an interesting read overall I can't help feeling the book has more to do with her upcoming album which is due to be released rather than her telling her own true story.

TW for child abuse, addiction, mental illness and suicide. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt