Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair

5 reviews

darcygabe's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Child abuse, Racism, and Self harm

Moderate: Animal death, Domestic abuse, Abortion, Bullying, Classism, and Colonisation

your_true_shelf's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Drug use, Infidelity, Death of parent, Violence, Racism, and Colonisation

Minor: Animal death

erickaonpaper's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

"Anything else you'd like to add?" Storygraph asks, unknowing that I may have many, many things to add re this memoir... 

part love letter to jamaica, part good-bye letter to her rastafarian upbringing, part forgiveness letter to her parents (particularly to her father), part prayer, part poem, this memoir from safiya sinclair moved me to tears multiple times over the course of journeying through everything mentioned earlier. every time i finish a memoir, i'm grateful for the writer who delivered, and this time is no different. although i refuse to rate a memoir, i will effusively thrust this one into many readers' hands. bear in mind: some of the writing is so obviously coming from a lauded poet, and if poetry isn't your jam, some of the long, meandering sentences and narrative throughlines may ward you off. but do not let that deter you from wading through churlish moments, as safiya herself did not. to face your upbringing, to face your oppression in this way... what a gift. what a gift!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Bullying, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Misogyny, Death, Pregnancy, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Infidelity, Car accident, Drug use, and Physical abuse

znvisser's review

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

Beautiful memoir that taught me a lot while drawing a picture of the authors life: Safiya Sinclair manages to interweave personal memories seamlessly with Jamaican and Rastafarian history, making her story a whole. Her childhood memories are detailed and lively, drawn poetically with childlike wonder, shamelessness and parental worship, after which you feel complexity grow and doubts creeping in as she gets older. Sinclair is so proficient with language and I loved taking this in through audio as well, because her voice is gorgeous and she had great melody to her storytelling.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Misogyny, Violence, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Racism, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Colonisation, Pregnancy, and Blood

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Miscarriage, Drug use, Racial slurs, Body shaming, and Cancer

d0505's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Violence

Moderate: Bullying, Self harm, Sexual assault, Misogyny, and Animal death

Minor: Suicidal thoughts