Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby

32 reviews

resopus's review

funny reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement and Medical content

Moderate: Sexual content and Pandemic/Epidemic

thealmightykatt's review

funny lighthearted medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content and Death of parent

Minor: Chronic illness, Medical content, and Abortion

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

funny lighthearted fast-paced

5.0

     I thoroughly enjoyed this book! I was hilarious and highly relatable. If you are a woman who is perimenopausal or older, especially if you have had mental health struggles, I think you’ll love this book. Even if you aren’t you will probably find it an enjoyable read. 

   The author is so honest about everything she’s struggled with that it’s raw but not sloppy. Also, her imposter syndrome is highly relatable to most people. Though I could have done without some of the “Sex and the City” recaps of changes the author would make it was still funny. 

Narrator Rating: 4.5 stars 

   The author’s voice takes a little while to get used to, at least it did for me. But in the end, the author did an amazing job narrating this book. Having the author narrate a memoir helps you understand more how they felt at the time they wrote the book and when they were experiencing the events. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Cursing, Mental illness, Sexual content, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Abandonment, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Addiction, Biphobia, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Racism, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

ashleylynn's review

2.75

“Being perceived is excruciating. Especially if you can’t go person to person explaining why you look like that. I’d go to a lot more stuff if I knew I could take each person aside and explain to them why I look and dress the way I do.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Medical content, and Death of parent

amachonis's review

dark emotional funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Sexual content, Excrement, Vomit, and Medical content

Moderate: Fatphobia and Death of parent

zombiezami's review against another edition

While I find Samantha Irby's delivery and comedic style to be endearing, the topics in this book weren't very interesting to me and seemed too much like Wow, No Thank You. At a certain point I was like, yeah yeah, I get the picture

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Cursing, Sexual content, and Medical content

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Death of parent and Pregnancy

kylieqrada's review against another edition

funny lighthearted fast-paced

4.5

Anything that can make me laugh so hard I wake my baby up is worthy of a high rating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Medical content, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content, Vomit, and Pandemic/Epidemic

lily1304's review

funny lighthearted slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Medical content, and Medical trauma

adiajamille's review against another edition

slow-paced

3.0

This was my first Samantha Irby book. The self deprecation was just too nonstop for me. It made me feel like she actually hates herself but wants to mask it with jokes. There were disgusting (for me, I can’t deal with poo and there’s a lot), and occasionally funny, and to an extent very relatable. I’m not so concerned with the lack of continuity between essays, because that’s kind of the point of books filled with essays. That you share individual vignettes compiled in one place. I don’t know if I’m the audience, despite being a perimenopausal Black woman. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, and Death of parent

embervleo's review against another edition

funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.0

Another set of funny essays from Samantha Irby. I always prefer to read her books in audiobook format bc she narrates them. I appreciate her sense of humor around challenging/taboo topics like chronic illness and parental death. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Body horror and Medical content

Minor: Terminal illness, Vomit, and Death of parent