Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

The Chronology of Water: A Memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, Lidia Yuknavitch

11 reviews

iammmartina_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Violence, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Alcohol, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Child death, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Vomit, Pregnancy, and Car accident

Minor: Abortion, Grief, Death of parent, Miscarriage, Outing, Terminal illness, and Cancer

emzireads's review against another edition

dark inspiring reflective

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Alcoholism, Grief, Medical content, Miscarriage, and Sexual content

Moderate: Terminal illness and Suicide attempt

abbylw's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcoholism

smallfet's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Grief, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Child death, Car accident, Cancer, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Addiction, Abortion, Abandonment, Suicide attempt, and Miscarriage

emzireads's review

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

The narrator reads with a lot of enthusiasm, sometimes more than I wanted. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Alcoholism, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Suicide attempt, and Sexual violence

cassmensah5's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad

4.5

A remarkable read. So beautifully written and honest. Not giving 5 stars because the author uses the r* word multiple times throughout which is pretty jarring given how recently it was written. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Ableism, Alcoholism, and Miscarriage

rbrano's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

Really fantastic deep-dive into the mind of a woman who existed until she learned how to live. Deeply relatable at times, deeply harrowing at other times, in one moment downright unforgivable even with all of the context provided, and yet I walk away from the book feeling understood. 

Lots of trigger warnings should be listed, but I’ll just say that if you have any deep trauma, basically anything at all save perhaps personal experience with combat and war, you should proceed with caution. Personally I found it very healing to hear about a girl whose lives experience aligns so closely with mine as a child. It helped me to be angry and scared and helpless with her. It was deeply validating, especially to watch her stumble through adulthood after all of those years without the foundation that should have been built for her as a child.

This book was inspiring without being ham-fisted, tragic without being melodramatic, heartbreaking without being hopeless, and above all, an artistic expression of a woman who should have never made it to where she did but did anyway.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Miscarriage, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Child death, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Car accident, Grief, Incest, and Physical abuse

urastrologygf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Child abuse, Drug use, Grief, Rape, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Car accident, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Mental illness, Infidelity, and Cancer

edamamebean's review against another edition

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Outing, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Cursing, Pedophilia, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Incest, Grief, Emotional abuse, Dementia, Car accident, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, and Abortion

djschnitzer's review against another edition

It was incoherent. Disjointed. Must still be drunk. Disgusting vulgar see scenes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Drug abuse, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Incest, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Alcoholism, Drug use, and Suicide attempt