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3.79 AVERAGE
3.79 AVERAGE
dark
funny
reflective
sad
fast-paced
emotional
lighthearted
reflective
sad
medium-paced
emotional
sad
medium-paced
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
A memoir about the different stages and types of grief and how one person can experience them all within such a short period of time. An interesting read but nothing extraordinary. It might have been better presented as an essay or a long form article in a magazine. It felt excessively repetitive.
Molly clearly struggles living in the shadow of her once famous mum but really was her childhood all that bad? The memoir unfortunately felt winey and woe is me which understand is often the point of memoirs but I’m need of something light to read next.
Having a better awareness of who Molly’s mother is would have maybe made this a better reading experience but I don’t think would have helped to make an enjoyable one.
Unfortunately a big miss for me.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Death of parent
Difficult read. I find it interesting to read memoirs about daughters who didn’t have a good relationship with their mom, it does open some insights with my mom, even though we were close.
But damn, what a rough fucking year for Jong-fast. For some reason, with dementia it feels like the rest of the universe decided to just beat you down until you can’t stand. I really, really felt for her when reading that.
The writing wasn’t as strong as I would have liked, there was some repetitive sentences that I couldn’t tell if they were purposeful (mimicking dementia’s repetitive nature) or just accidental. I thought the ending saved some of the negative issues I had with the book.Not just because her husband goes into remission at the end, more so about finding her father and realizing he and her step mother are her parents too.
But damn, what a rough fucking year for Jong-fast. For some reason, with dementia it feels like the rest of the universe decided to just beat you down until you can’t stand. I really, really felt for her when reading that.
The writing wasn’t as strong as I would have liked, there was some repetitive sentences that I couldn’t tell if they were purposeful (mimicking dementia’s repetitive nature) or just accidental. I thought the ending saved some of the negative issues I had with the book.
sad
fast-paced
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Cancer, Fatphobia, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Abandonment
Moderate: Antisemitism, Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Pregnancy
challenging
reflective
sad
medium-paced