Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour

4 reviews

lowbrowhighart's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Car accident, Alcohol, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Racism, Rape, Xenophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Miscarriage, Self harm, and Islamophobia

hamstringy's review against another edition

slow-paced

3.0

I don’t know how to feel about this. Maybe that’s the reason to read it. I swung between a hyper aware intimacy with the way Khakpour describes illness and a vague disgruntled apathy at the way I felt she was making the wrong choices. Which, I suppose, is an important thing to catch. Khakpour owes us no zen story of healing, of course, and I think she writes an important messy story that’s more common than people realize.  

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Car accident, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Miscarriage and Self harm

mackenziem12's review

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Ableism, Car accident, Racism, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual assault

Minor: Miscarriage

ssreadsintranslation's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Islamophobia, Xenophobia, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, and Physical abuse