Reviews tagging 'Racism'

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

85 reviews

claudiamacpherson's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Racism, Xenophobia, and Homophobia

mirto's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

If I could give this 6 stars, I would. Brilliant book. I would even say Lulu Miller created a whole new genre. Memoir, biography, essay, nature book, history book, sociology, psychology, murder mystery, whatever, you name it. Made me feel so many things, all at once. I learnt a lot, from science to giving myself the life I want. Why Fish Don't Exist will stay with me forever.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Ableism, Gaslighting, Infertility, Classism, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, and Hate crime

Moderate: Grief, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Self harm, Sexual assault, War, Death, Emotional abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Murder, Infertility, Infidelity, and Rape

joctrem's review

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Racism

ebscaggs's review

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

I’m going back and annotating this book because I loved it so much 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism

asolis's review against another edition

2.5

A mix of memoir, biography, popular science, and a bit of self-help. From childhood, the author is unmoored by her father's nihilistic yet unshakably optimistic approach to life. Here she looks to the life story of David Starr Jordan for perspective. 
The content is primarily dedicated to Jordan's story, whom we come to find is a notably repellent human. The author does a good job of giving us a look under the hood at the story of someone who could be considered a scientific hero, and showing the ugliness of bigotry and white supremacist ideology underneath. But the framing presents this in the context of a memoir, even though Miller is stingy with her own story. That, despite its other strengths, makes the book feel unsatisfying. 

CW: self harm, substance abuse, sexual assault, state violence

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Racism, Self harm, and Murder

toffishay's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I could not have guessed that I would be adding another 5-star reading at the tail end of the year. But each page of this book brought me new insight, new pain, new joy. And in another sense, it was nothing new. We are faced with our own lives and our natural world and we take what we can get. The writing is intense and thoughtful. It afforded me some additional perspective about the world around us and made me want to learn more about nature. And it made me cry!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Confinement, Racism, Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, and Child abuse

Moderate: Infidelity, Grief, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Death

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, War, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Rape, Toxic relationship, and Car accident

junefish's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Animal death, Infertility, Infidelity, Racism, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Rape, Death, and Alcoholism

Includes content about the history of eugenics and the personal experiences of people who were forcibly sterilised.

katsmedialibrary's review

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Racism

Eugenics

thehutonfowlslegs's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

things found in this book:
• fish
• actually, fish don’t exist, so no fish
• icthyology and taxonomy 
• existentialism 
• the life of david starr jordan 
• the life of lulu miller
• murder 
• love
• loss 
• darwinism 
• eugenics 
• attempts to bring order to an ever-chaotic world 
• the questioning of everything you think you know
• a single footnote 
• a sound clip of the author teaching her child how to say “fish” (provided your reading medium is the audiobook) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Ableism, and Child death

Moderate: Murder and Racism

emmafstover's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny and Medical trauma

Minor: Racism