Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper

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samarakroeger's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.0

a fairly run of the mill memoir that took a preachy turn towards the end. 

Dr. Harper tries to interweave her traumatic upbringing with vignettes about her ER patients but spends too much time lecturing on the beauty of yoga and not enough on meaningful self-reflection. I thought she was leaning too heavily on the inevitable emotions of the ER (like dead babies) to carry the heft of the memoir. It didn’t really work. 

There’s still plenty of interesting material to engage in, though, so I’m not mad about finally reading it. 

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kristinnyoung's review

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emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.5


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sofipitch's review

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dark hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

Harper bears witness and gives voice to how societies failure often brings patients to her as an ER doctor. This book was not only surprisingly hopeful but after everything Harper herself has gone through and then seen you really end up hopeful yourself.

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jendif's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0


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avialia's review against another edition

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emotional informative medium-paced

3.75

Found it boring at times

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readbycarina's review

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emotional informative reflective medium-paced

2.5


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blackcatkai's review

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informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

CW: death (child & adult), child abuse, ableism, fatphobic & trans-exclusionary vibes (as is common when dealing with the medical/health field as a whole, apparently), sexual assault 
overall i enjoyed reading about Dr Harper & her beginning years in the medical field. mostly the last 1/3rd kind of got under my skin, but that may be a preference thing. a lot of good insight here, though the author is big into forgiveness to grow while I am a firm proponent of you don't owe anyone anything, not even forgiveness. 
you can absolutely grow & flourish without needing to forgive someone who hurt you. but that's just me and that's ok! 

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becksss's review

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2.5


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poppyseedromance's review

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challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0


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