Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Femeia din mine by Britney Spears

183 reviews

sierrabowers's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This was a great read. I highly recommend to anyone that’s a fan, or even if you’re not! Brittany tells her personal story regarding her life and conservatorship. I think her story can help others in similar situations in the future. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Dysphoria, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Body shaming, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Suicide, Medical trauma, and Miscarriage

sfdogmom's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Misogyny, Grief, Forced institutionalization, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Abortion, Toxic relationship, Miscarriage, and Emotional abuse

zydecovivo's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Brittney Spears’s The Woman in Me is her chance to tell her story. As a very young fan when her star was rising, I didn't understand what she was going through in the early 2000s or what her conservatorship meant. Listening to her story, in her own words, brings a perspective to both her experiences and women's treatment within the music industry that we've all been missing for a long time. It is not a perfect book. Some memories don’t seem fully relevant to her reflections and some especially emotional situations seem to literally be indescribable by the author. I think there are also some instances glanced over that may reveal more trauma than the author wants to focus on in this text. But I can tell Spears wrote from the heart and her ability to discuss the horrors she was subjected to should be commended. This is a must-read for anyone thinking of entering the entertainment industry and will probably be a gateway used to move the industry forward to avoid such blatant abuse again in the future. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Pregnancy, Grief, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, and Panic attacks/disorders

courtneys_reading's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

It's always hard to rate biographies because this is people's lives and how they chose to tell it. I'll be real with you and say the writing style is not my favourite. But I think it's important to appreciate that Britney can finally share her thoughts and feelings with the world in her own terms. 

It's heartbreaking to think about the harassment she got from paparazzi as she was dealing with normal struggles in her life. As well as everything her family put her through. 

It's also crazy how fast everything happened for her, from a young age and success to everything crumbling down so quickly. But again, glad she is living her life and taking it one day at a time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Abortion, Grief, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

camartin1015's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

4.0

I was excited about the release of this memoire, if a little hesitant because the audiobook isn't narrated by the author (which I tend to prefer). That said, Michelle Williams does an absolutely phenomenal job and, in some ways, sounded more like how I remember Britney Spears than Spears did herself in the opening that she recorded.

I'd learned some of Spears's life through the media and (unauthorized?) biographies that released during the height of her popularity, but this book provides a lot more information and context to her rise to fame, her role in her early choices, and the complicated way her family has seemed both incredibly well-off and incredibly poor. There is so much sadness and heartbreak (and anger) in the book and Spears's life. On the one hand, she is such an incredibly strong person to have endured media bullying, sexism and sexualization, and the paternalism and exploitation of a conservatorship--and to have fought for her freedom throughout it. At the same time, it's clear that there is no magical, pure happy ending for Spears (or, maybe anyone), and it left me wondering how we create a society where people are able to seek care and support in empowering ways, on their terms, rather than in belittling and demeaning ways. This book was also a great reminder of the ways the public has consumed celebrity content and how social media has changed that but also how US culture is inherently misogynist, holds women to explicitly different standards by making a spectacle of their experiences when they deviate from specific norms or expectations, and how many women have and continue to be exploited and traumatized by it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Bullying, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Grief, Abortion, and Medical trauma

cerysl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Sexual content, Abortion, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Mental illness, Alcohol, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Fatphobia, Grief, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Medical trauma, Transphobia, Death, Kidnapping, Medical content, Sexism, Abandonment, Addiction, Miscarriage, Pandemic/Epidemic, Biphobia, Drug use, Confinement, Physical abuse, and Torture

xiggy's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body shaming, Gaslighting, Grief, Confinement, Drug use, Mental illness, Abortion, Alcohol, Cursing, Death, and Emotional abuse

riannonsbookishera's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Grief, Abandonment, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Body shaming, Abortion, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Confinement, Bullying, and Sexism

eliza_beth_23's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Forced institutionalization, Bullying, Body shaming, Confinement, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Death, Abortion, Miscarriage, Dementia, Grief, Suicide, Ableism, and Gaslighting

Minor: Addiction and Alcoholism

aleilvandrea's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Abortion, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Pregnancy, Ableism, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Violence, Self harm, Torture, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Drug use, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Miscarriage, Infertility, Suicide, Infidelity, Blood, and Drug abuse

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Vomit, and Cursing