Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

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

31 reviews

moll's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This book was heartbreaking and impactful. I listened to the audiobook and cried through a fair bit of it but it really challenges your perspective. I think it’s a really important read/listen. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Terminal illness, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Suicide and Alcoholism

Minor: Vomit

laurencampbell's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Child death, Grief, Pregnancy, and Terminal illness

sineadlgull's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Suicide, Grief, Medical trauma, Cancer, Child death, Terminal illness, Death, Mental illness, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Pregnancy, and Addiction

thehelsproject's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

What a book. It's not long, 192 pages, and I couldn't put it down. I actually wish I'd listened to the audiobook but Rob Delaney has such a distinctive voice and style to his comedy and writing, I actually felt like I could hear him reading it to me anyway. It's painful and candid and honest and heartbreaking, but it also made me laugh and smile. I really like his writing style, and the way he told the story of his son and his family's journey.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Death, and Grief

dhiby's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

very touching. i am always a sucker for stories involving the love a parent has for a child, which was discussed or portrayed in this book. i cant imagine the amount of pain the author went through and of course i look up to how he handled it all selflessly. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Excrement, Child death, Chronic illness, Medical content, Cancer, and Blood

jen_again's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Alcoholism, Blood, and Drug use

theyellowbrickreader's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Blood, Medical content, Child death, Alcoholism, Terminal illness, and Mental illness

Moderate: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

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

Moderate: Pregnancy

lavenderlemonade's review against another edition

emotional funny sad

Beautiful, heartwrenching, honest, and funny. 

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Content Warnings

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

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

thedocument's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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