Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Keskiyön kirjasto by Matt Haig

115 reviews

noodlesny's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Animal death

Moderate: Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Cursing, Chronic illness, Infidelity, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Drug abuse, Vomit, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Alcoholism, Stalking, Medical content, Car accident, and Animal cruelty

olive_lol's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal death and Mental illness

Minor: Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Death of parent, Self harm, Body shaming, Cursing, Alcohol, Death, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, and Medical content

xgabrielle_hx's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Car accident, Alcohol, Animal death, Drug use, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Animal cruelty

peasandpancakes's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

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

2.25

I love the idea of the midnight library, a library that contains your infinite possibilities at life. It is interesting to think who you would be as a person if you made a different choice earlier in life. 

But… there we have Nora. Someone I could sort of relate to or at least feel for in the beginning, feeling lost and lonely and sad. Unfortunately she is also as dense as they come and needs a thousand in your face, super clear, spelled out lessons about life to get it.

Finally when she gets the perfect life, she realises her actions had consequences (gasp) and influenced other people’s lives. So she leaves her new found happiness to go back to her root life where she immediately gets everything she wanted and is now super happy and cured from depression! Which is totally how that works and not at all hurtful for people who are going through depression, “just change your outlook on life people” (hope you can pick up the sarcasm).

Also, if you do not wish to read a self-help inspirational type book, don’t read this one!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Drug abuse, Mental illness, Vomit, and Death of parent

Minor: Car accident, Stalking, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcoholism, Infidelity, and Medical content

eefjeee's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Death

Moderate: Drug abuse, Grief, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Medical content, Animal death, and Death of parent

Minor: Vomit, Animal cruelty, and Self harm

birdieex's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Alcohol, Suicide attempt, Death, Grief, Suicide, Death of parent, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

Moderate: Chronic illness, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Addiction, Alcoholism, Medical content, Cancer, and Homophobia

Minor: Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Stalking, Sexual assault, and Infidelity

bookwormcat's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Medical content, Mental illness, Vomit, Chronic illness, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Car accident, Animal cruelty, Sexual content, and Panic attacks/disorders

unicorn3's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

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

4.75

While the Midnight Library isn't the normal book I would choose to read now that I have read it. I was enthralled by the cover and the summary of the content I heard: someone being able to live an infinity of lives through books in a library. It wasn't what I expected, it was a thousand times better, not perfect and worth my five stars (maybe I'll changd my mind after a reread), but still so so good. Living these lives with Nora Seed, questioning our regrets while she can actually redo them, questioning the way of life... It was refreshing and a learning experience all the same. I would love to read this book again. It was great. Life isn't just happy moments, but hard as well, it's not about being perfect, it's about living, finding your moments and people and things you enjoy to do.
This book showed me that the little things are as important as the big and that it is okay to aim low as well, as long as you continue to aim and not give up. Doing something badly is better than not doing it at all!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

Moderate: Death of parent, Suicide, and Medical content

Minor: Sexual harassment

mjthomas43's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcoholism, Addiction, Grief, Animal death, Car accident, Death of parent, Medical content, and Mental illness

emsavors's review against another edition

dark hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Toxic relationship, Death, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Cursing, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Grief, Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Death of parent, Dementia, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Stalking, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, and Police brutality