Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

7 reviews

brutiful_life's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Miscarriage, Death, Grief, and Child death

Minor: Sexual content

creativerunnings's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Religious bigotry, Terminal illness, Abandonment, Blood, Death, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Grief

owls_rainbow's review

DNF at 116 pages. Too miserable and if the advert for the "sequel" is anything to go by nothing improves.

Content warnings for child death and alcoholism.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Alcohol, Grief, Alcoholism, and Racism

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

ginadapooh's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child death, Domestic abuse, Grief, and Medical content

minimarie's review

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring lighthearted sad medium-paced

4.75

Frank McCourt use of tragic humor in this book is brilliant, I’ve never in my life thought a book could make me want to cry, laugh, and be so angry. This book is truly makes you feel so many emotions while reading it. I wasn’t a big fan of biographies before read this book, this book made me love reading biographies that tell the struggles of many people up bring with a lighthearted twist to it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Bullying and Incest

child death from illness; this spoken about a lot in this book as he had multiple siblings pass in their adolescent years. Child abuse; it’s more neglect, as they treat him differently from the rest of his siblings. Incest; in the book it mentions that his mother is being sexual assaulted (?) by his uncle. Grief; there is different type of way each person in the book griefs especially depending on which person passes on.

amberinbookland's review

dark emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Infertility, Grief, Blood, and Addiction