Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Ich habe einen Namen by Chanel Miller

205 reviews

ninahuynh's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring tense medium-paced

5.0

Chanel Miller is such a great storyteller. I remember when this case broke in the news. I did not realize the incident happened just months before I myself attended college! Hearing Miller tell us her story, displaying her anger, frustration, sadness, numbness, loneliness, hopelessness really brought power to her story, especially in Emily Doe's Victim Impact Statement at the end of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

lorenek15's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, and Alcohol

chrysos79's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Alcohol

Moderate: Suicide and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Racism and Medical content

csoyars's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

5.0

Heart wrenching, honest, brave, and beautifully written. I ache for and am in awe of Chanel Miller.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Grief, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

sebulba's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Alcohol

Minor: Domestic abuse

thursdd4y's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Mass/school shootings

cmruth98's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

“I wrote this book because the world can be harsh and terrible and unforgiving. I wrote because there were times I did not feel like living. I wrote because the court system is slow as a snail, and victims are forced to spend so much time fighting, rather than spending their days creating, drawing, cooking. I wrote to expose the brutalist of entitlement, gender violence, and class privilege in our society. But I would be failing you if you walked away from this book untouched by humanity, without seeing what I saw: those thousands of handwritten letters, the green-lipped fish at the bottom of the ocean, the winking court reporter. All the small miracles that sustained me.” 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Alcohol

robinks's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

This was such a powerful, revolutionary memoir, and listening to it read by Chanel was so moving. I am hopeful that society is moving in a direction where victims do not have to go nearly as far as Chanel did to receive appropriate justice. I am also hopeful that these acts of violence can continue to be intercepted by community and looking out for each other. Believe victims, and believe women.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Gun violence, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, and Classism

Minor: Vomit

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

*********NOT spoilers because this was a very public case, but if you don’t know about it, then you may consider my opinion to have spoilers**********

This book was both easy and hard to read. It feels so rare that women are vindicated, and that was the case here. An empty victory, but I was so proud of that California jury. We Asian women are stereotyped and taken advantage of because of those stereotypes. It’s unusual for BIPoC to get justice, to be believed, but when it’s rape, when it’s the victims who are vilified and scrutinized and intimidated and manipulated on the stand, it feels like BIPoC victims have an insurmountable agony. All that said, that damned judge - UGH!!! I feel like he violated her as much as Brock Turner. I hope they and the defense attorney and his parents share an eternal damnation where they are continuously violated and erased over and over and forevermore for legally gaslighting all women through their aggressively limp actions.

The judge being recalled was a very inadequate outcome. He needs to be tormented everyday for all the subpar sentences he’s surely meted out, because Brock was no way the first one he let off easy. As for this rapist whose sentence was pretty much a step removed from a get-out-of-jail-free card, the women in his area are holding him accountable. Still not enough, but at least his “freedom” comes with a lot of strings now - least according to Google.

Looked up Chanel in Instagram. Happy for her - happy that she’s found a way to thrive, though being an assault victim myself, I know she’ll have her haunted moments too. I wish her luck and send her lots of love.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Outing, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

abbycpatton's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Alcohol