Reviews tagging 'Death'

A Heart That Works: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Rob Delaney

29 reviews

bella_cavicchi's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

Oh, I wasn't prepared to cry this morning. The writing here is not literary. It is—dare I say—somewhat crass. But it oozes love and sincerity and grief, the big human feelings that are intensified by such a tragedy of losing your son when he's only two.

Reading it has me wanting to give my parents a hug and thank them for loving me unconditionally. For that is all we can offer!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Pregnancy

lavenderlemonade's review against another edition

emotional funny sad

Beautiful, heartwrenching, honest, and funny. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Pregnancy

michelarod's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Grief

ambersbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad fast-paced

5.0

Cried so hard I gave myself a headache. I expected the sadness and pain, but not the humor and beauty also contained within these pages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Pregnancy

lindsmann's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

What a special book. I've been a fan of Rob Delaney's online presence for a while (and wow that feels like a weird thing to say haha). But I originally knew of Rob through his Twitter account, and never really knew much about him outside of that. 

I heard about how his son had passed, and later found this book. I'm lucky in that I've never really had to deal with much grief in my life thus far. But I still found this book incredibly touching, heart-breaking, and thoughtful. 

While talking about an extremely emotional and delicate subject matter, Rob is still able to bring a levity to it that I can only imagine someone adept in the comedic arts could do—all without minimizing the seriousness of the topic. 

I cried, laughed, and cried some more while reading this. I can't recommend it enough. Read this book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, and Suicide

The whole book is about grief and dealing withe the loss of a young child.

balfies's review against another edition

emotional funny sad fast-paced

4.0

Devastating, funny, deeply moving memoir about the grief of losing a child. Comedian Rob Delaney speaks so vividly about the trauma of losing his son Henry to brain cancer, and so warmly about Henry himself. In the same vein as No One Is Talking About This and Crying In H Mart for modern opuses on grief.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Suicide, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Car accident

molliekneath's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

franklybookish's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, and Pregnancy

mugguomp's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, and Grief

rebeccaquinton's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, and Medical content