Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

324 reviews

ebullient_kate's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

I’m not someone who reads non-fiction. It’s been a failed new years resolution (FOR YEARS) to get through a single non-fiction book. Crying in H Mart broke that chain. 
This memoir is incredibly heartfelt and a beautiful testament to the author’s mother and their bond. I found myself becoming more and more grateful for my own mother as I read. I’ll admit it: I cried a lot! But I also “awww”ed a lot and laughed and drooled over the descriptions of food. The acknowledgments (which I rarely read) were SO SWEET! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infidelity, and Car accident

notnaomie's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, and Car accident

Minor: Addiction, Infidelity, and Abortion

livreittoashley's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism, Child abuse, and War

trollmila's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

I decided that I'd go to sleep early. That did not happen. I took a few days to read the first hundred pages but laying in bed I just became entranced in the book. I spent the second half of the book crying. During the wedding where Zaumer says there wasn't a dry eye in the tent, years later I was crying along with them.
Zaumer writes so well and the flow of the book, where we get flashbacks, where we get brought into the present are so well timed and balanced. I picked up the book finally after it being on my list for so long (shout out library waitlists (I kid I love you libraries)) due to her being a musician I deeply love but kept reading because it was so impactful and well written and structured. 
My family lost a parent to cancer in December 2023 and my mother recieved her diagnosis in Oct 2024 but thankfully they were able to remove it. It was a good book and I think I needed the cry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Infidelity, Car accident, and Abortion

trapdorr's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Still crying. This book was so poignant. About her struggle with identity while being mixed Korean-American and her relationship with/loss of her mother. Her writing and voice and beautiful. This was exactly the non-fiction book I needed right now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Addiction, Racism, and Abortion

madeline_p4's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism and Alcohol

gremlin_98's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, and Medical content

norygraph's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug use, Infidelity, Racism, Excrement, Abortion, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

bh33's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Alcoholism

artemisskyla's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism