Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

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

9 reviews

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

alexisramosreads's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Misogyny, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Sexual harassment

laurareadsagain's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Racism, Sexual harassment, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Grief, 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

tamara_joy's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Incest, and Sexism

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Gaslighting, Grief, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Dementia, Emotional abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, War, Car accident, Cancer, Child death, and Medical trauma

nerdy_book_mom's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Sexism

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

kefowler's review

emotional inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Misogyny

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Car accident

mrswhiteinthelibrary's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Beth Moore: once the Evangelical church's only real woman darling, now a sort of delightful auntie of exvangelival kids everywhere. This is her story. And it's a ride. Written with her trademark, folksy southern warmth, she weaves the story of her troubled childhood, a story of abuse, mental illness, and tragedy, with the story of what Jesus did for her, his presence always felt but always seemingly behind the curtain, behind the scenes. As she grows older, marries, starts her ministry, builds her family, and grapples with her past, Moore never loses sight of who has carried her, even as trauma dogs her every step, from birthing her children, adopting a small boy from a cousin (who later chose to return to his birth family), she and her own husband's PTSD, and her ejection from and rejection of evangelicalism in the wake of Trump. This is not a preachy book. In many ways it reminded me of works like Educated or The Glass Castle. It is Beth Moore's life, and while her faith is intrinsic to that, she writes in an accessible manner, acknowledging often only in past tense what she sees as the invisible threads holding it all together, only seen from the distance of time. She stands in awe of making it through it all, never praising herself (her tone is, in fact, often one of self depreciation). It reminds me of how readers of Charlotte's Web are less wont to praise Wilber as "some pig," and instead remark, "what an amazing spider."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Mental illness, Grief, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Child death, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Religious bigotry, Misogyny, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Terminal illness, Racism, Death of parent, and Abandonment