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Corpsing: My Body and Other Horror Shows by Sophie White
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
5.0
This isn't a pleasant book to read. It isn't a book you'll cuddle up and relax into the couch in comfort with. But it is a very important one that I recommend everyone read.
This book is a raw, and agonising pain. From the very first few lines Sophie is violently honest with the reader about everything. Within this collection of very personal essays she has allowed us to see the darkest inner most thoughts imaginable and that is one of the amazing things about this book. A lot of these thoughts you don't need to imagine because I guarantee you, you will see yourself somewhere within this book.
It is so honestly refreshing to see Sophie delve head first into her darkness and voice that "normal" people can have these dark sometimes warped thoughts or that people can laugh maniacally at the most inappropriate and twisted humour and still be good mothers, good friends and good people.
It's so much easier to talk about mental health now than years previously but what isn't easy or comfortable to talk about is mental illness and the agony and impact struggling with that engulfing mental illness has on everyone involved.
There is so much within this book that I could sit here and type for days praising and discussing the heartbreaking content. There is so much of myself within this book that at times it was deeply uncomfortable to read. This is a book that needed to be written and one that needs to be read.
The only slight I had on the book was completely situational. I'm not a mother and certainly don't plan to be so I did find it hard to connect with one or two of the essays on motherhood. However, the stark agony of it still jumped from the pages.
I took my time with it and it will be one I know I will jump back into for many years to come.
This book is a raw, and agonising pain. From the very first few lines Sophie is violently honest with the reader about everything. Within this collection of very personal essays she has allowed us to see the darkest inner most thoughts imaginable and that is one of the amazing things about this book. A lot of these thoughts you don't need to imagine because I guarantee you, you will see yourself somewhere within this book.
It is so honestly refreshing to see Sophie delve head first into her darkness and voice that "normal" people can have these dark sometimes warped thoughts or that people can laugh maniacally at the most inappropriate and twisted humour and still be good mothers, good friends and good people.
It's so much easier to talk about mental health now than years previously but what isn't easy or comfortable to talk about is mental illness and the agony and impact struggling with that engulfing mental illness has on everyone involved.
There is so much within this book that I could sit here and type for days praising and discussing the heartbreaking content. There is so much of myself within this book that at times it was deeply uncomfortable to read. This is a book that needed to be written and one that needs to be read.
The only slight I had on the book was completely situational. I'm not a mother and certainly don't plan to be so I did find it hard to connect with one or two of the essays on motherhood. However, the stark agony of it still jumped from the pages.
I took my time with it and it will be one I know I will jump back into for many years to come.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Drug use, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Terminal illness
Minor: Abortion and Cannibalism