Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

41 reviews

emmehooks's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Classism, Alcohol, Drug use, and Racism

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Murder, and Suicidal thoughts

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

5.0

The more I read and learn and understand how institutionalized racism started and continues to be reinforced, the more I fear for this country.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Bullying, Child death, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Classism, Ableism, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Addiction

shannahtan's review against another edition

challenging sad medium-paced

I feel weird rating this book because it’s almost a memoir of these people’s lives. 

Ethnography is so interesting because the person is actually trying to live this life in first person. Desmond mentioned he didn’t pay folks for interviews, which in part I understand that he maybe didn’t want to get a biased point of view. However, I feel like they should get paid for this book as he was telling their life stories. Although Desmond recognizes his privilege, he still got to leave the trailer park. He was never evicted. The people in the book are still living this life of eviction. All in all, the book is dense and is a very good window into the life of so many people in the United States. The last two chapters explain how a universal housing voucher has helped other countries combat houselessness. I tandem read this through audiobook and ebook.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Child abuse

Moderate: Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, Violence, Domestic abuse, Addiction, and Alcoholism

kilonshele's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Mental illness, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Drug abuse

Extreme poverty

knitswhilereading's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

Moderate: Drug abuse

Minor: Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Cursing, Mental illness, Child death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Animal death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Racial slurs, and Fire/Fire injury

paguroidea's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

This was a rough listen. I liked the juxtaposition of the landlords/tenants- hearing all the different perspectives was both interesting and infuriating. I do wish there had been some more stats or studies mixed in throughout and not mostly in the epilogue. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Racism

Moderate: Alcoholism

rystonlentil43's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Classism, Racism, and Drug use

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Fire/Fire injury

esjackson's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Addiction, Drug use, Mental illness, Drug abuse, and Classism

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Trafficking, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Gun violence, Self harm, Grief, Animal death, Cursing, Incest, Murder, and Suicide

bessadams's review

challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Addiction, Child death, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Cursing, Drug abuse, Violence, Classism, Death, Gun violence, Rape, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

hellavaral's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Rape, Sexual assault, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Animal death, Gun violence, Mental illness, and Racial slurs