Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo

45 reviews

livreads4fun's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

markandcover's review

dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Minor: Suicide

ashezds's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I think this book might have changed my life. Definitely one of the most informative and personal books I’ve read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

gabhopesreads's review against another edition

5.0

This is the best memoir I've ever read. It's so well-written, phenomenal on audio and one of my favorites this year so far. I loved the narration, plus the included audios of her therapy sessions. I loved how she went into details about history, hers and forgotten history, erased history. I loved how it felt like I was put under a microscope and dissected, but in actuality she was explaining her C-PTSD. At the end, the message of hope mirrored my own that I was lucky enough to find years ago. I wish I'd read this sooner, when I'd been drowning in my diagnosis. But the thing with C-PTSD is it's always there, so this will be helpful to read at any point in my life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

klueneburg's review

challenging dark emotional informative fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicide, Violence, and Abandonment

clarabooksit's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

I’m not good at reviewing books that wow me, but this blew me away. I love a book that both moves me and educates me, and this did both in spades.

Foo narrates her journey toward self-discovery and well-being with incredible candor and immersive storytelling. Her writing feels effortless and inclusive: it’s not just her story but an invitation to the reader to join her on her journey.

I loved it. Highly, highly recommend. A favorite of the year, for sure.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Police brutality, Medical trauma, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Death and War

elleynnreads's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

It took me a long time to read this, not bc the pace is slow. But how heavy the content is. I’ve cried, related to and laughed with her thoughts and remarks. I loved it. 

Life is tough but it is not made to be easy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

emileesmith's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Violence, and Abandonment

Moderate: Drug use, Racism, Suicide, Medical trauma, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

aishallnot's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Abandonment

Moderate: Racism, Suicide, and War

Minor: Self harm

ames_101's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

A beautiful story of trauma and therapy and triumph. Told on audiobook by the author, including snippets from therapy sessions, really made this book stand out. The retelling of her childhood trauma was difficult to listen to, but worthwhile through the next parts of her story. A life full of love. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Suicide, and Abandonment