Reviews

Corpsing: My Body and Other Horror Shows by Sophie White

stellabellaeile's review

I didn’t feel right giving this a star rating as it’s so deeply personal for the author. The first essay really dragged me in but I wasn’t so sure about the rest, up until the last one. An interesting read

sineadcuddihy's review against another edition

5.0

From the minute I started reading I thought, 'how on earth will I review this book and do it justice?!'

Corpsing is a collection of essays by writer and podcaster, Sophie White, detailing the literal highs and lows of life, death, addiction, mental illness, motherhood, womanhood.

It seems trite and clichéd to say I laughed, I cried, but I laughed, I cried. I’ve had to stop and google ’The Reincarnation of Saint-Orlan’, pause to listen with eyes closed to Blue by Joni Mitchell, and I can’t look at the Saxa salt the same way ever again.

Looking at my notes, I’ve written honest, beautiful, relatable, raw, emotional, heartbreaking and funny. It is all of those things and more. Get it, read it, pass it on.

filawless's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

4.5

I think Louise O Neill says it best in her review on the back of Corpsing "flying honesty in every perfectly formed sentence". Some of this book hit so close to home and you can feel the emotion in every sentence. Lots of trigger warnings needed but a raw, beautiful book where Sophie doesn't shy away from addressing things

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Drug abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

caseyot's review against another edition

3.0

Interesting topics but found the writing, on a sentence level, quite repetitive and almost redundant. I think it was a little muddy, and while the individual essays were in conversation in each other, they also talked over each other.

nplunkie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

This is a genuinely incredible book. It’s beautiful and painful and profound. I have no doubt that this is a book that will stay with me and I will continue to go back to

shweng's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

r0binflower's review against another edition

dark funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Eating disorder

Minor: Alcoholism, Body shaming, and Chronic illness

orlagal's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Abortion, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Cannibalism, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

kteha's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

laurahedd's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death of parent, Dementia, Drug use, and Mental illness