Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult

10 reviews

amandamz's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Infidelity, Dysphoria, Terminal illness, and Grief

Moderate: Death of parent, Fatphobia, Cancer, Body shaming, Bullying, Medical content, and Suicide

Minor: Drug use, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Pregnancy, and Child death

iamaprettyflower's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

This book had so many unexpected twists that it had me screaming into a pillow (in a good way!). I really loved that it explained the history behind all of the Egypt references as I would have been completely lost otherwise. I really enjoyed it 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Pregnancy, Infidelity, Medical content, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Grief, Alcohol, Cancer, Death of parent, and Fatphobia

its_me_mar_p's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

The fatphobia in this book bothered me, though I think the intent behind its use in the story was probably not negative, it reflects a lot of negative views and I did not like that or the way it was 'resolved'. Otherwise I found this a really interesting book, where I learned a lot about Ancient Egyptian death rites, and the role of a death doula in contemporary USA. Some of the scenes with the main character's husband Brian annoyed me, they seemed to be written in an overly schmaltzy way and I'm not sure what the aim here was. I didn't like the way 'scientific' was set up as the opposite of emotonal. Brian seemed autistic coded to me - I'm autistic and have good emotional insight, I found this to be an unhelpful sterotype. That all sounds very negative but I did enjoy this book, I would have liked it to be a little faster paced, but it had a lot of interesting details that I learned and I liked that it discussed issues of how we make choices in life and how you can't really get to my age (nearly 40) without having at least one 'path not taken' that you wonder about - and how do you resolve this and go forward.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cancer, Fatphobia, and Death

am4man's review

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Fatphobia, Grief, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Child death, Infidelity, Medical trauma, and Medical content

Moderate: Bullying and Body shaming

courtiny's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Fatphobia

princessdana36's review

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Medical trauma, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Fatphobia

caitlynw0200's review

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Child death, Infidelity, and Fatphobia

wikikapusta's review

emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Fatphobia, Terminal illness, Miscarriage, and Grief

heli1403's review

emotional informative mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Jodi Picoult has done it again. I honestly thought I wouldn't like the book that much because it didn't sound like something I'd be interested in, but I enjoyed every minute because of her flawless writing and story. I waited a lot to get the book in my hands and did not regret it. Totally recommend this one

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Body shaming, Cancer, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Fatphobia and Pregnancy

kyrstin_p1989's review

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

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I had a bit of a tough time understanding time in this book, but based on the author’s descriptions of the concept of the multiverse and there being multiple planes of reality within which we and other versions of ourselves exist, I think it was meant to be a bit confounding. I loved the characters of this book and the way that Picoult talks about how love isn’t singular or static, how you can love more than one person at the same time, how you can not be with someone but still never fall out of love with them. I loved the conversations about death and how it should teach us something about life — they brought me some peace in my own grieving. This is the kind of book I wish I could experience again for the first time. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Fatphobia, Medical trauma, and Medical content