Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

2 reviews

cilie's review against another edition

slow-paced

4.0

Frak McCourt narrates his own memoirer to perfection; He speaks a distinct Irish but does other dialects, like American and British, and he sings quite nicely when relevant. 

The story of McCourt's childhood in deep poverty is a heart breaking one, but also one full of love and kindness, hope and dreams. It reads like a novel with a narrative voice that develops slowly as Frank gets older. The characters spring of the page and come to life; some you hate, some you love and some break your heart.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Mental illness and Violence

Minor: Vomit

mandi4886's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

Great writing and very detailed descriptions of life in poverty. I did find the ending to be a bit odd and lacking closure. I also found some of the details within this book to be unnecessary. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Abandonment, Ableism, Animal cruelty, Mental illness, and War

Minor: Antisemitism, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Gore, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, and Infertility