Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

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

4 reviews

jessversteeg's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

I suspect this will be one of my fav reads of 2024. I love Beth Moore and her story is even better. The audiobook is a must to hear her tell her story in her accent! I already knew about her past of child abuse, but didn't know who the perpetrator was... she tells all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Toxic relationship, and Mental illness

Moderate: Incest and Religious bigotry

Minor: Sexual assault

reading_ladies_blog's review

reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Toxic relationship

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

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