Reviews tagging 'Racism'

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

7 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

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

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

courtneyer's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Racism and Child death

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

purplepenning's review

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.75

Astonishingly good and highly recommended. Full of grace, vulnerability, charm, and humor. Also excellent on audio. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Sexism, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Racism, Rape, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, and Terminal illness

Minor: Abandonment, Drug abuse, Addiction, and Abortion

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