Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Finding Me by Viola Davis

196 reviews

danielavasquez's review

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Violence, Physical abuse, Misogyny, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Sexual violence

Minor: Abortion

ryliereadss's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

5.0

Soooo glad I listened to the audiobook! Davis's story is heartbreaking and triumphant and difficult to listen to sometimes. The bond she has with her sisters is so lovely. It was so cool to listen to her talk about the beginning of her acting career and how acting made her feel while she was on stage and her struggles as a young, broke artist. Hearing her talk about the lack of deep roles for people of color and how your skin has to be a certain color to get certain roles was truly eye opening. It's just not something I think about that often. Her father was incredibly abusive during her childhood

but I'm so glad he changed and became a better man later on in his life.

I loved Davis talking about dating her husband and how protective he is, it was incredibly sweet. You definitely have to check this one out!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, and Animal death

Minor: Rape, Abortion, and Incest

shellbell31's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Alcoholism

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexual assault

Minor: Blood, Abortion, Addiction, Bullying, Death of parent, and Cancer

ali1004's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Sexism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Infertility, and Sexism

aantillon's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, and Abortion

kendal_reads's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, and Racism

Moderate: Alcoholism and Blood

bethanyt123's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

Truly worth ten reads. Enlightening, inspiring, devastating, painful, and moving. Viola manages to open the doors to exploring the intricacies of racism in a welcoming, inviting, and honest way. I’m convinced the only way to read this is via audiobook, recorded by Viola herself. The performance is enrapturing. Thank you, Viola Davis, for opening your heart to us.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Racism, Toxic friendship, Death, Racial slurs, Violence, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Animal death, Classism, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Terminal illness, Child death, Death of parent, Stalking, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Infertility, and Bullying

itscassie's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Viola’s storytelling ability coupled with the depths of vulnerability and healing she shares had me in awe throughout each chapter. I felt I saw a distant relative telling me their life lessons and speaking to the young girl, adolescent in me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Sexual violence, Classism, Death of parent, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Addiction, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Bullying, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual violence, Abortion, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Medical trauma

morgane3471's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

2.75

I wanted to love it but I I didn’t.  I really liked her in HTGAWM and was interested in learning more about her life. Sadly, it was poorly written in my opinion and It wasn’t really captivating. It felt very repetitive . I don’t understand why this book as got so many good reviews. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Domestic abuse, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Child abuse, Incest, Abortion, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, and Child death

mathenam's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

This story is inspiring and heartbreaking and difficult to process. 

Memoirs seem to always have a narrative that skips around, but that’s the nature of telling a story about a real life. It still felt a little too disjointed in places.

Also the story about the man who killed the cat in front of them and chased her sister around town felt unbelievable to me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Violence, Animal cruelty, Terminal illness, Pedophilia, Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Racial slurs, Domestic abuse, Sexual harassment, Infertility, Incest, Animal death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Racism, Kidnapping, Body shaming, Abortion, Rape, Pregnancy, and Physical abuse