Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Finding Me by Viola Davis

48 reviews

mdavis26's review

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Racism, Racial slurs, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Blood, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Abortion, Alcohol, Acephobia/Arophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Sexual assault

emily_koopmann's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Bullying, Abandonment, Death, Hate crime, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Racism, and Abortion

frannieman's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

Beautifully narrated by the author. Extremely powerful.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

jessspeake's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Medical content, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Rape, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Cancer, Medical trauma, Racism, Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

cayleeguy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Domestic abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Grief, Bullying, Animal death, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Medical trauma, Infertility, and Body shaming

sparringego8's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Domestic abuse, Abortion, Alcohol, Drug use, Cancer, Child death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Pregnancy, Racism, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Grief, and Addiction

maria1085's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Wow! What an amazing book! I listened to this on audio and hearing Viola Davis talk about her life was so powerful. She went through so much growing up. Poverty, an alcoholic/abusive father, food insecurity, sexual abuse. And after all that she still became the woman she is today. She was a fighter, and strong, and determined to get herself out. Her relationship with her father was probably the most difficult to hear about. The thing he did to her mother were unspeakable but by the end it turned into a redemption story and the love she has for him was unconditional. I really found her to be an amazing storyteller, I love her as an actress and definitely want to see more with her in it. I HIGHLY recommend this book, especially the audio. I don’t normally rate memoirs but if I did this would absolutely get 5 ⭐️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Rape, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Sexual assault, Racial slurs, and Racism

kenziburke's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

Moderate: Abortion, Alcohol, and Racism

Minor: Drug abuse

anastasia_raf's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

I don't think you can "rate" a person's life, so I'm just rating the pacing, the writing and the overall composition of the book.
I kept reading and reading and often wondered how did she kept on going? I know What kept her going, but still...how was that enough? A lot of her experiences brought me to tears, terrified me, and made me think of how lucky I am and how much protection, opportunity and "luck" White privilege provides.
Viola Davis is an incredible actor and so very talented in so many fields.
There were a lot of quotes from this memoir that stuck with me.
Here's one of them: "stop making love to something that's killing you."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Classism, Domestic abuse, Grief, Alcohol, Child abuse, Misogyny, Addiction, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Violence, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Rape

sannesbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, War, Violence, Terminal illness, Sexual violence, Bullying, Body shaming, Blood, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Pedophilia, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Addiction, Infertility, Cancer, Animal cruelty, Sexual assault, Infidelity, Colonisation, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Physical abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death of parent, Death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Rape, Racism, Hate crime, Animal death, and Abortion