Reviews tagging 'Death'

All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir by Beth Moore

10 reviews

beklovesbooks's review against another edition

5.0

Just excellent. Ties together well. Humorous and intense. I feel we really know the author through her vulnerability and style.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Grief

Moderate: Incest, Infidelity, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: War, Gaslighting, Cancer, Death of parent, Infidelity, Mental illness, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death, Suicide, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Abortion, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Alcohol, and Child death

steelepath's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Sexual assault, and Death of parent

sby's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Death, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Grief

Minor: Infidelity

lydiajlong's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring fast-paced

5.0

"I'd spent my entire adult life looking for someone I'd already found. Looking for something else about him. For what his face looked like in this light or that ... looking up and down the lives of those who'd also searched for him and found him to see if they'd stumbled onto something I'd missed."
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I was not prepared for how I would respond to this memoir. I was shocked at how much Beth Moore's story resonated with my own story. I was surprised at all the emotions and tears this brought up for me. As a woman in ministry who also started by serving middle school girls, so much of this book was comforting to me. I felt very seen and known in such a unique way. I would recommend this to any woman to read, but especially to any woman in ministry. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism, Child abuse, Violence, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Death, Grief, Rape, and Misogyny

fkshg8465's review

emotional medium-paced

2.0

Several friends had read it and connected with it. I did not. I don’t mind religion being a central theme of a book, especially a memoir, but a good chunk of it was more evangelism and less self-reflection. It was annoying. It felt like she was using the book as a way to get converts. It wasn’t until far into the book that there was any compelling content for me (will leave out why so as to avoid spoilers).

I did enjoy her references to places in and around Houston since I’ve got lots of emotional ties and memories in them all, but I was surprised she left out any references to Harvey because it was such a big moment in recent Houston history. Even if she wasn’t personally affected, everyone in Houston knows at least one person who was, and it was a big deal to all of us. It’s like writing a book about the early 2000s in NYC and leaving out 9/11. 

She’s gone through some tough stuff. I hope the rest of her life is a little easier.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Religious bigotry, Terminal illness, Death, and Death of parent

bookshelf_al's review

challenging emotional inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Sexism, Death, Grief, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Child abuse, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Rape

amandaredinger's review

emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Child abuse, Incest, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Infidelity, Death, and Death of parent

beklovesbooks's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

The author is such an excellent storyteller,  gifted with words, so you can feel everything with her without it being graphic. So much truth, tragedy, trauma, raw, honesty, faith & hope.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Incest, Adult/minor relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, and Sexism

Minor: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, War, Abandonment, Alcohol, Bullying, Chronic illness, Death, Miscarriage, Pandemic/Epidemic, Racism, and Vomit

auberella's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Car accident, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Infidelity, Sexism, Child abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

readingwithmeredith's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness and Death

Minor: Sexual assault and Medical content