Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Please Look After Mother by Kyung-sook Shin

5 reviews

beralo's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

An extremely emotional book that I feel most asian as well as other ethnic minority can relate to! Speaks of how strong a mothers love for her children is and how often times she is dismissed and not seen until the worse. Made me think of my own mum so much 🥺🥺

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage

serena_hien's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Death, Alcohol, and Misogyny

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Abandonment, Animal death, Death of parent, and War

cassie7e's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Incredibly sad and reflective. Interestingly, the second person narration did not feel weird, and since the audiobook uses different voices for different people it wasn't confusing either.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Dementia, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Medical content

Minor: Death, War, Animal death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Infidelity

parasolcrafter's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

this book made me. so sad...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Grief, Mental illness, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Classism, Dementia, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Abandonment, Cancer, Animal death, Body horror, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Child death, Infidelity, and Fire/Fire injury

marywahlmeierbracciano's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Please Look After Mom is a heartbreaking book.  It follows a Korean family as they look for their mother, who went missing at the subway station during a trip to Seoul.  Her two daughters, eldest son, and husband recount their memories with her, leaping between past and present—grieving, regretting, hoping.  Kyung-sook Shin’s title character also narrates her journey, the unacknowledged Passion of a poor, illiterate Korean country woman with secrets and sorrows, attending to the smallest details with great care.  This book reminds readers that every person is a whole, complex human being who deserves care and respect—even your mom. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Dementia

Moderate: Death of parent, Child death, Suicide, and Pregnancy

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and War