Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Femeia din mine by Britney Spears

66 reviews

allisonsmith120's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Confinement, Mental illness, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Misogyny

Moderate: Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Car accident, and Sexual content

Minor: Suicide, Miscarriage, and Blood

cosmicwillow's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Abortion, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Drug use, Suicide, and Child abuse

Minor: Miscarriage

mellvynm's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

I feel like Britney excluded many things in her life in this book, but it's definitely difficult to relive painful memories and that is definitely understandable. It's a good memoir to understand what she went through with her life, and the way Britney writes is filled with emotion and honesty.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Suicide

ericventura531's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Mental illness, Suicide, Domestic abuse, and Abortion

rosemaryandrue's review against another edition

emotional inspiring medium-paced

4.0

Covers Britney Spears's life and career, with particular focus given to her experiences in the spotlight, her strained relationship with her family, and the conservatorship she lived under for over a decade.

I found this to be a fast-paced, streamlined autobiography that gave an interesting insight into Spears's life and how she'd been forced by both the media and the conservatorship to live a strange life in which she was treated as somewhere between child and woman, not capable enough to manage her own affairs but capable enough to be exploited. She makes for a sympathetic subject.

I listened to this book as an audiobook which is narrated by Michelle Williams. I thought she did an excellent job in capturing Spears's voice and delivered an emotional performance.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Misogyny

Minor: Miscarriage and Suicide

boydgirl's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Emotional abuse

Minor: Suicide and Sexual assault

smalljoys's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Body shaming, Miscarriage, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Grief, Infidelity, Death, Confinement, Bullying, Torture, Sexism, Medical content, Alcohol, and Misogyny

Moderate: Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Abortion, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Medical content, Infidelity, Grief, Death of parent, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Infertility, Forced institutionalization, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Alcohol, and Addiction

dianaschmidty's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

5.0

#FreeBritney 
This poor girl. After reading this, I hate parts of our legal system even more than I already did!

Also, if you love pop culture, especially the music industry in the early 2000s, you’ll be as fascinated by the first half of the book as I was!

This book is just proof that most men suck. Especially rich ones.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Mental illness, Abortion, Body shaming, Toxic friendship, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Bullying, Confinement, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, and Torture

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, Medical trauma, Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Medical content

kelly_e's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

3.25

Title: The Woman in Me
Author: Britney Spears
Genre: Memoir
Rating: 3.25
Pub Date: October 24, 2023

T H R E E • W O R D S

Brave • Chaotic • Halfhearted

📖 S Y N O P S I S

In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey—and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history.

💭 T H O U G H T S

I was a pre-teen when Britney's first album dropped in 1999 and I remember getting the album the following Christmas and listening to it on repeat. However, my interest was short lived and it ended up being the only one of her albums I owned. Despite not following her career closely, I still knew I wanted to read this memoir.

While I can empathize with Britney's story, The Woman in Me lacked depth. She has gone through her fair share of trauma and struggle, revealing some heavy truths within. Yet because she kept thing very surface level, these reveals felt like shock value additions more than a part of the healing process. I can imagine it took tremendous courage putting her story out into the world and I hope it was therapeutic for her. However as a reader, the writing was so chaotic, reading more like a diary than a well-crafted memoir.

With all of that said, what this book did offer me was insight into the behind-the-scenes world of music, as well as the enduring power of music in healing. I also greatly appreciated her devotion to her children, something the mainstream media has certainly left out.

At the end of the day, I am glad to have picked this up and listened to it. However, it was the deep emotional memoir I was so hoping for. I hope the writing process was a healing part of her journey to taking back control of her life. But when I got to the end, I got the sense she still has a long ways to go.

📚 R E C O M M E N D • T O
• die-hard Britney fans
• celebrity memoir enthusiasts

🔖 F A V O U R I T E • Q U O T E S

"Music stopped the noise, made me feel confident, and took me to a pure place of expressing myself exactly as I wanted to be seen and heard. Singing took me into the presence of the divine."

"If no one is used to you being assertive, they get very freaked out when you start speaking your mind." 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Sexism, Abandonment, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Confinement, Pregnancy, Body shaming, Addiction, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Abortion, Miscarriage, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug use, Bullying, Alcoholism, Medical trauma, and Alcohol

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Cursing, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death, and Infidelity

keirahelena_'s review against another edition

hopeful sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Abortion, Miscarriage, Alcoholism, and Suicide