Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

34 reviews

issyd23's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense slow-paced

4.0

Beautiful, moving, heartbreaking: ‘Time is a motherfucker’. 

Highlights include: Amazon History of a Former Nail Salon Worker. 

‘In my language, the one I recall now only by closing my eyes, the word for love is Yêu.

And the word for weakness is Yếu.’ 4⏳

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Homophobia, Racism, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, War, and Classism

mikkiokko's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad

5.0

No words, just astonishment. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Suicide, Death of parent, and War

soswiin's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

2.5

still was just reading words on a page but had to stop and think about "because everyone knows yellow pain, pressed into american letters, turns into gold."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Violence, and War

hello_lovely13's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Suicide

murderousscottishgremlin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

I cried a lot while reading this —Vuong has such a way with words.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Xenophobia

Minor: Genocide, Homophobia, and Sexual assault

khakipantsofsex's review against another edition

emotional reflective

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Car accident, and War

Minor: Animal death, Drug use, Homophobia, Racism, and Suicide

bashsbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

The hype around Ocean Vuong's poetry is well-earned. I recommend reading these poems aloud.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Racism, Suicide, Violence, and Xenophobia

Minor: Car accident

fengxin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, Car accident, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Animal death

locke_reads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Homophobia, Suicide, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

ejanephillips's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Grief, and Death of parent