Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile

8 reviews

ashtonebemis's review

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death and Religious bigotry

amandas_bookshelf's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Hate crime, Addiction, Religious bigotry, Alcoholism, Rape, Pregnancy, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Deportation, Grief, Racism, Lesbophobia, Pandemic/Epidemic, Alcohol, and Medical content

Moderate: Animal death and Suicide

daniellel's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia and Animal death

bashsbooks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

Broken Horses is a candid and honest window in to Brandi Carlile's upbring, inspirations, opinions, and musical journey. It is intimate and personal and frank, and that makes it such an enjoyable book. It feels like a conversation.

I have to highly recommend audiobook, which contains exclusive covers and acoustic versions of some of Carlile's most popular songs at the end of every chapter. Also, at the end, there is a nearly two hour section of the music within back-to-back. This alone makes it superior to the other versions.

My gripes with this book ar very minor - it sometimes feels disjointed, especially at chapter breaks, but Carlile herself admits she isn't a writer. All in all, it's a decent memoir.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Medical content, Drug abuse, Drug use, Classism, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Animal death, Lesbophobia, and Death

Minor: Racism, Police brutality, Pandemic/Epidemic, Islamophobia, and Xenophobia

-Graphic descriptions of a child with a life-threatening illness.

lava_crown's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Mental illness, and Drug use

Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual assault, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Minor: Animal death, War, Rape, Murder, and Drug abuse

albon's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Homophobia, and Death

Minor: Animal death, Car accident, and Infidelity

uranaishi's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Medical content, Drug abuse, and Homophobia

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Grief, Hate crime, Death of parent, Death, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pregnancy, Dysphoria, Sexism, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Rape, and Suicide

Minor: Cancer, Adult/minor relationship, Dementia, and War

amykuc's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

I listen to country music, but I'm not good at remembering singers and song writers. I went into this book not knowing very much about the author. It was a really interesting read. She was very honest about her childhood, the evolution of her sexuality, and her dealings with addiction. In between chapters she would often sing-some songs that she had written others that were written by others that had meaning to her. I'm not sure if you would enjoy the audio without some enjoyment of country music but the story by itself was very interesting!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Drug use, Addiction, Animal death, and Alcoholism