Reviews tagging 'Grief'

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

77 reviews

sarah_hutchins's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Suicide

333amreen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

VERY INSIGHTFUL!!! not just into a doctor's life and their relationship with their patients & their confrontation with life and death everyday! But also, into HIS life, Paul's beautiful life & his philosophies that were astounding. Overall, an emotional ride, especially the latter part!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Terminal illness, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

garyosu's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent

linzlee's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Grief

aleyajo's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

Memoir of a smart and empathetic neurosurgeon diagnosed with cancer. Epilogue written by his widowed wife. I found his portion interesting but surprisingly not sad, his wife’s portion was sad to me though. His perspective of the medical field informed much of his decision-making process when diagnosed; he had difficulty letting himself simply be a patient. He also understood the importance of not simply extending life - but of meaningful time being more important than the quantity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Suicide

brecklyn's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

This is outside of my normal genre, but I really enjoyed his reflections on life, and philosophy and his perspective on death. I did not find it too sad, but it was definitely moving and poignant. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Cancer and Death

jchudson's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Grief

greenlivingaudioworm's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Pregnancy

psweet9's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

Wow

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

bookish_bry's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Wow... this book really got to me. It's written very well and punches you in the gut. Paul's self-reflection at the end of his life hits hard. It was a hard book to get through, but it was very, very good. Don't read if you are not in the right emotional state. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Pregnancy

Paul is a doctor and described his medical training somewhat explicitly when talking about dissecting cadavers.