Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Reseptivapaa by Adam Kay

31 reviews

chloe_silk1810's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Gore, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

dlsmk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

This was probably the hardest hitting one yet. Holy guacamole. Please pay attention to trigger warnings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child death, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

shonagh_catherine's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

- Please read the trigger warnings before reading -

This book is vulnerable, witty, startling, and necessary. Adam Kay and his acerbic style of writing take you through an vulnerable journey of the doctor who ran out of patients. Kay details the PTSD he battled with following his years as a doctor; he's stuggle to adjust to life post medicine including the difficulty in establishing himself as a comedic writer; and Kay explains the pressures and challenges posed to his relationships with loved ones both during and after leaving medicine from the toll medicine takes to his family and there Outlook on why he left medicine. 

This book was jarring, it was hilarious, and it was so deeply personal. It takes a brave individual to bare themselves to the world as Kay has done and he has achieved it with wit, humour, and kindness to himself showing a level of introspection many lack.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Stalking

Moderate: Homophobia and Racial slurs

grace_9613's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

3.5

my favourite chapters in this book were the flashback chapters to his time in medicine. Although I prefer This is Going to Hurt, I still enjoyed it. (Definitely check trigger warnings - lots of dark humour used) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Rape, Sexual assault, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Homophobia, and Miscarriage

cicelybelle's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Eating disorder, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Minor: Homophobia and Blood

kfquarium's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Medical content, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Body shaming, Child death, Blood, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Minor: Ableism, Drug use, Homophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Excrement, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

laurataylor's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Dementia, Stalking, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

sprucy2427's review against another edition

challenging funny informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Medical content, Grief, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, and Alcohol

emmyh_reads's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

Minor: Homophobia

panikos's review against another edition

funny informative sad medium-paced

4.25

Great book. Kay writes with so much humour but still manages to bring home the truly harrowing side of medicine. The book conveys the chaos and difficulty of reinventing yourself, and shines a spotlight on a lot of issues that just aren't talked about. I haven't read any of his other books, but I'll definitely be checking them out after this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

Moderate: Homophobia