Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee

7 reviews

robinks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

3.25

The concept was cool, but in practice, I didn’t like how the book was arranged. Each chapter was a random combination of commentary and conversation, making it hard to follow at times, and it was unclear what the timing of the sessions looked like relative to each other. Also, the last chapter suddenly switched gears into short essays, which I didn’t like. Additionally, as a therapist myself, Sehee’s therapist was giving so much advice and perspective packaged as truth that I did not agree with.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Alcohol, and Body shaming

Moderate: Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Classism, Eating disorder, Abandonment, and Bullying

Minor: Xenophobia, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Lesbophobia, War, and Animal death

mariaalice's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia and Xenophobia

bashsbooks's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

I was really excited to read this book as someone who has been treated for depression and anxiety - and had a rocky go of it. But I found it to be kind of lacklust and boring, and I'm not entirely sure why. Maybe because I felt like I'd already had similar conversations and revelations with my own therapist? I don't know.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Mental illness

Moderate: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, and Fatphobia

Minor: Lesbophobia, Racism, Misogyny, Suicide, and Xenophobia

sarahussain's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Fatphobia and Xenophobia

There are brief mentions of the author being fatphobic and xenophobic when battling her thoughts, it’s almost mentioned in passing but just to be aware.

joshuahc's review

dark reflective sad medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Mental illness, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Emotional abuse

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Xenophobia

lauxreads's review against another edition

medium-paced

2.5

When I initially saw the book at the bookstore, I was intrigued by the title and the cover, and the blurb also caught my eye.

Upon taking another look, I quickly realized that I want to die but I want to eat tteokbokki wasn't a fiction book about a woman suffering with mental health issues, as I initially thought, but is instead a memoir of a woman's experience with therapy and working through her problems. I was very interested in the way the author would portray her experience, so of course I bought the book.

Now that I finished, I'm not sure what to think about it. Certainly, the matter of the book and the described exoeriences are deeply personal to the author so I don't want to go too deep into describing how I only found myself relating to short passages at the time, while other experiences were strange to me.

As far as the style of the book is concerned, the fact that it is largely made up of transcripts from therapy sessions is interesting to me. Since therapy is usually a confidential setting between the patient and the therapist, being the 'third person in the room' as a reader was interesting. However, I didnt enjoy the parts in between as much and the epilogues felt a bit distracting to me.

I would probably have enjoyed the book more if it was entirely made up of therapy transcripts - maybe including the author's thoughts where necessary.

At times, the descriptions also felt superficial, which is why I would have preferred for the book to be longer and to go into more detail.

Nonetheless, it was an interesting and fairly quick read that did include some sentences that I will also keep in mind for myself from time to time.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Fatphobia

Minor: Homophobia and Xenophobia

leefox's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

2.0

I wish the last 10% of the book was the entirety of the book. 90% of just verbatim transcription of therapy sessions were quite dull. Lacked depth. Translation also seemed to really be a miss. For what was touted to be a personal and emotional book, i really struggled to connect with it at all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Fatphobia, and Mental illness

Minor: Xenophobia