Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

72 reviews

koplomps's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Body shaming, Car accident, and Fatphobia

Minor: Abortion and Alcohol

scmiller's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cancer, Death of parent, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Body horror, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Vomit

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Abortion, Bullying, Car accident, Drug use, Racism, Addiction, Drug abuse, Excrement, Fatphobia, and Mental illness

Minor: Infidelity and Religious bigotry

chireadsandchill's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Addiction, Cancer, Car accident, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, and Death of parent

Moderate: Abortion, Child death, Infidelity, and Body shaming

Minor: Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Self harm

molly_rose's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Medical content, Grief, and Cancer

Minor: Alcoholism, Car accident, Abortion, Body shaming, and Addiction

bashsbooks's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

A love letter to the complicated relationship between mother and child, Crying in H Mart navigates the grief of losing loved ones and the grief of being disconnected from your culture. Zauner has an incredible and strong voice, ripe with unique observations and striking linguistic choices. And tracing these emotion and relationships through food? Brilliant. 

Now I'm going to listen to Japanese Breakfast's Psychopomp.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Grief, Cancer, and Medical content

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Racism

Minor: Blood, Body shaming, Car accident, Infidelity, and Vomit

robinks's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

What a beautiful memoir and testament to Zauner’s mother’s life. As a fellow mixed-race individual, Zauner’s desire to connect to her Korean heritage is so relatable. It was also so wonderful to hear the book spoken by the author herself.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Cancer, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Car accident, and Medical content

Minor: Drug use, Racism, Abortion, Body shaming, and Infidelity

paigereitz's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

This was such a wonderful memoir of mom-grief. There were times I struggled with my therapist-hat coming on too strong, but that's very much a "me" problem and not a book problem. The mom grief me, though, was hit over the head by a two-by-four with this book and the depth of feeling wrapped up in it, all told through a lens of the author managing her own biracial identity and what it meant before and after her primary tie to her Korean world died. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Cancer, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Grief, Death, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Alcohol, Body shaming, Alcoholism, and Emotional abuse

lauradoyaga's review against another edition

Child abuse, fat phobia, boring, poor writing

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Body shaming, and Fatphobia

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

2.5

I don't even really know what to say, but I will try to put something about the reading experience into words.

It was alright.  I teared up a few times.  The descriptions of food were verbose and evocative, sometimes excessively so.  I love Maangchi.

This is a story of grief and mourning, of finding your identity and how it changes as you grow, relationships and connections.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Alcohol, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Death, Excrement, and Fatphobia

Minor: Abortion, Body shaming, Drug use, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Car accident, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Eating disorder, Religious bigotry, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, and Sexism

mirandyli's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Crying in Hmart has got me crying in Hmart. If you are a second gen East Asian immigrant, this book will make you cry. It was so painfully relatable and will make you want to hug your mom, no matter how much you hate her. Book of the year.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Excrement, Abortion, Drug use, Medical content, Misogyny, Cancer, Colonisation, Death, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Addiction, Car accident, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Grief, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Infidelity, and Racism