Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

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

7 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

madyhutch's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Mental illness, and Terminal illness

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

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

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