Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke

7 reviews

moonbrained's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Grief, Sexual violence, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Abandonment, Animal death, and Chronic illness

Minor: Child death, Alcoholism, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Alcohol, Abandonment, Addiction, Cancer, Car accident, Medical content, and Pandemic/Epidemic

lilybear3's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

The writing is incredible and I wrote a bunch of them down so I could remember them.  It was really insightful, though I wished some things were more in-depth.  I don't know if that could've been achieved with a graphic novel format, but that's something I would've liked.  However, I did learn a lot about Dr. Harry Harlow and his monkey experiments, which a lot of people have heard of, but maybe just the most famous one (cloth monkey & wire monkey).  He did a lot more experiments with monkeys so check those Content Warnings.

Overall, I don't have a whole lot of thoughts other than I liked it and I'd be interested in learning more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Mass/school shootings, and Animal death

paigeinabook's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical content, Mental illness, Adult/minor relationship, Chronic illness, Confinement, Grief, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Violence, Alcoholism, Animal death, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Death of parent, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, and Panic attacks/disorders

lowbrowhighart's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Big trigger warning for animal cruelty/torture! Part of the book details Harry Harlow's experiments with Rhesus monkeys. Wish I would've known that before reading!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Torture, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death, Rape, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Grief, Alcoholism, Mass/school shootings, Sexual assault, and Violence

Minor: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Misogyny, Sexism, Hate crime, Death, and Cancer

ka_cam's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

3.75

The graphic novel format makes this book go fast, and I think I’d have found it more engaging if I were 1. more actively lonely right now and 2. Less generally familiar with the history/physiology research (so it would be new). At time moving meditation on loneliness but at other times the transitions between personal narrative and research/history felt choppy. Would recommend for anyone interested in loneliness though, since it is so quick to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Animal death, Abandonment, and Alcoholism

Minor: Death, Dementia, Terminal illness, Emotional abuse, and Cancer

ce_read's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Grief, Torture, Animal cruelty, and Mental illness

Moderate: Abandonment, Rape, Gun violence, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Mass/school shootings, and Suicide

Minor: Bullying

anniefwrites's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

It's hard to describe this book; it's not a solutions-based book by any means, but more of an exploration of a topic that weaves together the author's own experience and more scientific and historical data. Radtke does a great job of making every word count while balancing the text with provocative and beautiful images. I do think that her points got a little muddled at times, but in general I felt very seen by this book and would definitely pick up another book by her in the future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Mental illness, Death, Grief, and Abandonment