Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Just Kids by Patti Smith

26 reviews

sarasimper's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Drug use, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, and Pandemic/Epidemic

raesansom's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Grief

avasbookmark's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use

Moderate: Terminal illness and Grief

Minor: Death and Suicide

baerbl's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Grief

angiegiannis's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Such a beautifully written book, would highly recommend. I bawled my eyes out reading the last section.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death and Grief

garbagebarge69's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring slow-paced

5.0

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Moderate: Terminal illness

Minor: Grief and Classism

hcnorris's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Infidelity, Suicide, and Grief

Minor: Addiction and Sexual content

ilovebooks1967's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

I LOVE THIS BOOK

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Abortion

Moderate: Drug use

emabled's review

adventurous challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

i never read non fiction. i picked this book up purely because a single person said it was good. instinct drove me to read it and i'm very glad i did.

what a beautiful book. a love letter to art, and even more so a literal love letter from patti to robert. their story is rich and encompassing. you feel the need to pay attention while reading, you feel the eminence of robert and patti's significance.

i will say that the countless names, of famous musicians, poets, photographers, producers, etc. was what took me out of the story a bit. i am not well read in hollywood or adjacent culture, especially not that of the 60s-90s, so this had me very confused. there was, most of the time, apt description of these celebrities so i would have enough context to continue, but sometimes it was like i was expected to know these names and histories.

anyway, the prose was gorgeous. patti smith has poetry in her veins. her storytelling is captivating and gorgeous simultaneously, her love for others and theirs for hers so present in her recollections. i did just talk negatively about the constant name dropping, but i will say that it also creates a lovely metaphor: we are who we meet. we are mosaics of everyone we interact with. patti depicts that like a true artist.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Body horror and Sexual content

Minor: Addiction

pernillelsk's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Addiction, Grief, and Pregnancy

Minor: Suicide