Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller

29 reviews

okarenhelena's review

hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Death, Child death, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Racism, Torture, Hate crime, Forced institutionalization, Confinement, and Antisemitism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Ableism, Alcohol, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, and Lesbophobia

apworden's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Classism, Mental illness, Murder, Racism, and Rape

empathephant's review

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Ableism, Racism, Mental illness, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Xenophobia, and Confinement

Minor: Self harm, Rape, Abandonment, Animal death, Animal cruelty, War, Child death, and Police brutality

Eugenics

skudiklier's review

challenging dark hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book was really good! I had kind of weird expectations going in that made me wary of it, but by the time I got about halfway through I couldn't put it down. It goes a lot of places and has so many really important ideas. I'd definitely recommend it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Racism, Murder, Death, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Bullying, Self harm, Child death, Drug use, Infertility, Infidelity, Homophobia, Body horror, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexism, Rape, and Confinement

Minor: Gun violence, Sexual content, and Alcohol

Eugenics, forced sterilization, r slur And mild/moderate people being eaten by animals

massivepizzacrust's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

This book is a journey and the less you know going into it the better in my opinion. The writing style is addictive and funny, the emotions are real and the ideas are complex. One of my favorite reads of the year.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Forced institutionalization, Racism, and Murder

valerlance's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I expected a biography full of taxonomy. Surprise! This book contains some of what I expected, but it's also a memoir and a philosophy text and even (for just a chapter or so) a murder mystery! I loved it so much!!! I highly recommend listening to the audiobook, which is read by the author herself and includes a wonderful, tender surprise after the epilogue.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Forced institutionalization and Murder

Minor: Alcohol, Car accident, Child death, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Rape, and Racism

There's a lot of discussion of eugenics

emilygigs's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Medical trauma

Minor: Child death and Infidelity

kelseyland's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

An incredibly moving and thought-provoking book about the problems with making assumptions and attempting to reduce the complexity of life to neat, orderly narratives. The way in which Miller first introduces and then problematizes the subject of the book (David Starr Jordan, a taxidermist and eugenicist) is fascinating, as is the way she weaves in details about her own existential crisis. This book is intense at times (see content warnings), but also breathtaking. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Ableism, Racism, Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual violence, Self harm, Infertility, Animal death, and Child death

Minor: Rape, Confinement, and Murder

jeanneerin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Torture

Moderate: Alcoholism, Ableism, Addiction, Violence, Xenophobia, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, Infidelity, Grief, Death, Confinement, Death of parent, and Child death

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Biphobia, and Car accident

Forced sterilization, eugenics, depression, Trump, Confederate statues, Proud Boys