Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford

26 reviews

sydapel's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

An absolute must read memoir. It's filled with poise and heart and descriptions of emotions unlike anything I've read in awhile. I don't know what else to say other than to read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Rape, Toxic relationship, Racism, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse

zahraa_aj's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

 "I was nothing. And nobody cared what happened to nothing. And everything happened to girls who were nothing.

As always, it's difficult to rate a memoir on the basis of its content as it's essentially someone's lifetime.
The author describes their life in such easy yet beautiful wording. As a reader, I felt the emotions amplified in juxtaposition to the author's younger quiet self that I'm reading about, who has buried all of those feelings inside of her up until now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Mental illness

delz's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Ashley C. Ford has put on paper a very personal at times, heart wrenching account of her volatile family. *trigger warnings for a single (1 page) rape(not described graphically) and domestic violence.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, and Child death

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Cancer, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, and Pedophilia

catriona99674's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I dont have the words to describe the craftsmanship that went into this book, the skill, the command of language. Please read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

rachbake's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Mental illness

skudiklier's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

This book was beautiful, thoughtful, and painful. It was a lot more about her relationship with her mother than I thought going in, but maybe that's because I have personal reasons I relate to some things with her father (and so I was especially interested in that going in). Regardless of what I expected, I definitely loved this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship