Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

16 reviews

madamenovelist's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic and Alcohol

hazelsbookcase's review

emotional sad

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Medical content

Moderate: Terminal illness and Death of parent

ieotter13's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.25

did i accidentally read the play version? yes. was it still good? also yes. 

a pretty poetic book about going crazy as a result of intense grief. 

i did have fun imagining how i’d stage this as a play tho so worth it ig?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Terminal illness, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Mental illness, Medical content, Chronic illness, Child death, and Grief

minkkmuse's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

 this book moved me in indescribable ways. became utterly absorbed—lost—in didion’s prose. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Grief, and Death

rayinbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Death

isscnls's review against another edition

It's kind of interesting, and a little disarming, to read someone with such a rational, straightforward mind talk about the experience of grieving, which is an absolutely irrational, complicated thing. I think that makes it more heartbreaking, the making sense of things that cannot be in any way made sense of. This realization only came of course because I read one other Didion work before this. The contrast between that previous book and this one is unapparent in terms of language, style, wording — but, to use the word again, disarming in terms of the surety one exudes and one doesn't.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Death, Blood, Medical content, and Grief

anoushka05's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Grief, and Medical trauma

channamason's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

jessieij's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Terminal illness

samanthatully's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness and Child death