Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life by Jonathan Van Ness

16 reviews

essie__reads's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

Please look up TW/CW for this book- there are a ton because the book discusses JVN's childhood trauma, sobriety, and experiences as a queer person and all the good/bad that came along with them. 

In this book JVN discusses their life and experiences as a queer individual, while incorporating significant and relevant historical and political events into these Essays when he can. I found this to be a really informative book and thought that it was very hopeful for the changes that could be made in society to improve the ways of life for BIPOC and queer individuals, without being naiive or ignoring the harm that these people have and continue to endure in this country due to the corrupt political systems in the US/white privelege. I would definitely recommend this. I enjoyed JVNs narration and learning more about their life experiences.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Homophobia, Eating disorder, Drug use, Body shaming, Animal death, Religious bigotry, Police brutality, Addiction, Sexual assault, Racism, Transphobia, Hate crime, and Gun violence

imstephtacular's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Body shaming, Bullying, Hate crime, Addiction, Colonisation, Homophobia, Classism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Transphobia, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Dysphoria, Ableism, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Cursing, Cultural appropriation, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Cancer and Car accident

kaylinvm94's review

funny reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Addiction, Drug use, Eating disorder, Animal death, and Homophobia

jemappellecat's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Grief, Eating disorder, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Addiction

toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective

3.0

I love JVN so much and think their insights are valuable and often funny, but something about this collection of essays wasn't doing it for me. I loved the descriptions and details about their life that were peppered throughout, especially their chapters about living with HIV and the queer history of their hometown which seemed to be a healing research experience for JVN, given their complicated relationship with the town. I guess my issue with parts of the book was that there were sections where I didn't feel I was learning anything new, which is not to say that JVN's insights aren't important, they just personally were repetitive for me at times. I didn't like this book as much as their debut memoir, but I will always read anything they put out because I enjoy their company.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Animal death, Drug abuse, Addiction, Homophobia, Eating disorder, Medical content, Child abuse, Bullying, Racism, Fatphobia, Transphobia, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent and Pedophilia

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

kbricks5's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

I am a big Queer Eye and JVN fan so I was interested to see how his books were. This was a quick book that I read in a day. It was filled with humor and musings on many different topics. Some parts I related to more than others. The only thing I wasn’t sure about was how dark this book was. Wasn’t expecting that one chapter and I thought it would be more lighthearted. Interesting read though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Animal death

Moderate: Drug use and Sexual content

Minor: Bullying