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cata1139's review against another edition
4.0
Não quero criticar esta história pois é relatada com muita dor e sofrimento. Não sou ninguém para dar uma opinião sobre uma etapa tão difícil na vida de alguém. Chanel Miller é sem dúvida uma mulher cheia de garra e muito corajosa por ter relatado e enfrentado tal acontecimento.
No entanto, relativamente à estrutura do livro, custou me muito a ler devido aos capítulos serem muito grandes. Por vezes senti que eram também muito redundantes e repetitivos. Entendo que a autora se calhar optou por isto para criar impacto, mas para mim não resultou. Se fosse mais sussinto, acredito que o impacto seria na mesmo gigante.
No entanto, relativamente à estrutura do livro, custou me muito a ler devido aos capítulos serem muito grandes. Por vezes senti que eram também muito redundantes e repetitivos. Entendo que a autora se calhar optou por isto para criar impacto, mas para mim não resultou. Se fosse mais sussinto, acredito que o impacto seria na mesmo gigante.
georgiaw6's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
gabrielle_erin's review against another edition
5.0
This took me so long to read because I could not bear the emotional pain contained in the pages. I cannot imagine how Chanel lived through it.
Genuinely devastating.
Genuinely devastating.
lauren_emily's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
5.0
andreiaoh's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
3.5
i find it really tricky (and sometimes inappropriate) to rate memoirs, especially ones like these which deal with such personal and sensitive matter.
my rating does not reflect on chanel's story — it was truly a heartbreaking, powerful, and insightful account of an incredibly difficult point in her life which still reverberates throughout her own life as well as the culture at large. enjoy might be the wrong word to use here, but her story, her truth, and her words stuck with me and i think anyone who reads this would be getting a lot of out it. it was emotionally challenging at times, and genuinely caused me to stand up and stomp around my room in a rage at the ridiculously unjust legal system and the awful way women are treated by legal professionals.
however, i do think this book could've benefitted from another really big edit. it felt too long — i read this in audio format and i think the length of it really felt evident in a way that might not be reflected in the written format. i found myself glazing over towards the end where i felt the narrative got a bit too meandering and lacked proper focus. regarding the audiobook, i do kinda wish i just read this instead. this was read by the author, chanel miller, but i didnt really enjoy her narration style. i really enjoyed how you could hear the emotion in her voice during some especially difficult passages and in the reading of her victim statement at the end, but for a 15 hour journey, her tone wasn't my favourite. i think its tricky when it comes to nonfiction — i do tend to like when authors narrate their own work but sometimes it really makes one understand why voice acting is a specific vocation.
as an aside — reading this in 2024 and all these very liberal-esque positive mentions of war criminals joe biden and hilary clinton did make me cringe. of course, theyve never been the bastions of equity and liberty but with recent events, the horrors that they have engaged in are ever more evident (at least to me! a proper adult whereas in 2017-2019 i was still a teenager lol) just put a bit of a rancid taste in my mouth. i understand that these things meant a lot to chanel at the time, and probably very validating in the face of so much dismissal and outright harassment, but i just didnt enjoy this (extremely brief!! i should clarify) aspect of the memoir at all, and it probably aged it a bit poorly.
im totally willing to revisit this in its written format, and i probably will to get a deeper read on some things that probably slipped by. otherwise, this was a really powerful and evocative memoir that i just wished was written a teensy bit better.
my rating does not reflect on chanel's story — it was truly a heartbreaking, powerful, and insightful account of an incredibly difficult point in her life which still reverberates throughout her own life as well as the culture at large. enjoy might be the wrong word to use here, but her story, her truth, and her words stuck with me and i think anyone who reads this would be getting a lot of out it. it was emotionally challenging at times, and genuinely caused me to stand up and stomp around my room in a rage at the ridiculously unjust legal system and the awful way women are treated by legal professionals.
however, i do think this book could've benefitted from another really big edit. it felt too long — i read this in audio format and i think the length of it really felt evident in a way that might not be reflected in the written format. i found myself glazing over towards the end where i felt the narrative got a bit too meandering and lacked proper focus. regarding the audiobook, i do kinda wish i just read this instead. this was read by the author, chanel miller, but i didnt really enjoy her narration style. i really enjoyed how you could hear the emotion in her voice during some especially difficult passages and in the reading of her victim statement at the end, but for a 15 hour journey, her tone wasn't my favourite. i think its tricky when it comes to nonfiction — i do tend to like when authors narrate their own work but sometimes it really makes one understand why voice acting is a specific vocation.
as an aside — reading this in 2024 and all these very liberal-esque positive mentions of war criminals joe biden and hilary clinton did make me cringe. of course, theyve never been the bastions of equity and liberty but with recent events, the horrors that they have engaged in are ever more evident (at least to me! a proper adult whereas in 2017-2019 i was still a teenager lol) just put a bit of a rancid taste in my mouth. i understand that these things meant a lot to chanel at the time, and probably very validating in the face of so much dismissal and outright harassment, but i just didnt enjoy this (extremely brief!! i should clarify) aspect of the memoir at all, and it probably aged it a bit poorly.
im totally willing to revisit this in its written format, and i probably will to get a deeper read on some things that probably slipped by. otherwise, this was a really powerful and evocative memoir that i just wished was written a teensy bit better.
cpeters2384's review against another edition
Thank you. Thank you for being a voice for us. Sharing the hardest parts, all of it. Thank you for allowing others to slip on our shoes and see what it’s like to go through the emotions, the holds of time, the haunts. Thank you for your bravery and your strength for change.
bellegasper's review against another edition
5.0
At a campus party, Channel was sexually assaulted, confused and not fully aware of her surroundings, she agrees to press charges, and starts on the long and unfair process of the legal system.
I don’t think I’ve ever got quite so emotional when reading a book before. There are so many important topics covered, with the horrible feeling in your gut that this is Channel’s truth, knowing that it happens to so many women. You have the anger around the assault itself, and then all the emotions that follow, then there’s the anger that comes from how the justice system works, and how there is the idea of the ‘perfect victim.’
While this took me a while to read, there were times I felt that I needed a break, it stayed with me, and I couldn’t quite get it out of my head until I finished.
Know My Name, is definitely something I’ll reread, it’s something to remind me that being a girl sucks, but things can be changed.