Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Me Alegro de que mi madre haya muerto by Jennette McCurdy

494 reviews

sammymilfort's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Physical abuse, Vomit, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Medical content, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Cancer

ninaleeray's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Jennette writes an insightful book of her life experiences, giving us a side of her fans could not have guessed. Her story proves that if you want to do better for yourself it is possible but it’ll take time and be uncomfortable; however well worth it. The over message I got from this autobiography is “You are not defined by your family or past”. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, Body shaming, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, Medical content, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Mental illness

andreac713's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Mental illness, Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Body shaming, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Vomit

sadiaa's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Alcohol, Blood, Fatphobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Grief, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Cancer, Infidelity, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, and Sexual assault

aliceloyallaleon's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, Addiction, Terminal illness, Medical content, Infidelity, Grief, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Bullying, Vomit, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Dysphoria, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Death, Cursing, Child abuse, and Alcohol

knkoch's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.75

I'm really impressed by this. It was recommended to me for its shorter length and straightforward chapter structure because I've been struggling with staying engaged with audiobooks. This succeeded not only on those merits, but on many others, like voice, specificity, clarity, arc, and general writing quality. I wasn't expecting McCurdy to have such a strong writing style; I expected that she had a big story to tell, but so often in these sorts of celebrity memoirs, the story is more valuable than the way it's told. But she handles her story so deftly, especially as she writes about her early acting career starting at six years old. It's hard, as an adult, to reflect on your childhood without imposing your adult mindset, contemporary hindsight, and judgement on those reflections. McCurdy writes her younger self with such credulity, faithfully recording the way abuse warps your psychology to accept and understand your situation as normal when outside observers would see anything but. I felt that impact doubly as I listened to McCurdy herself narrate her book. It's powerful; this is one of the first books I've come across that I'd recommend as audio over print. 

I also found McCurdy's dark, dry sense of humor interesting, and it began to feel like the glimmers of her independent selfhood shining through the misery and control imposed on her by her mother and, eventually, the television industry as a whole. Celebrity authors bring so much name recognition from their other career work that I don't tend to automatically trust their books as deserving of the hype they ride on. There has to be real substance there, not just a famous name. This book proved something to me, and demonstrated such substance. I heard that McCurdy is working on a novel, and based on her writing here, I will keep an eye out for it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Body horror, Eating disorder, Child abuse, Mental illness, Medical content, Dysphoria, Death of parent, Cancer, and Alcoholism

pov's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Vomit, Alcohol, Body shaming, Mental illness, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Medical content, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Grief, Pedophilia, and Sexual content

elizherlihy's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Bullying, Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Medical content, Death of parent, Cursing, Child abuse, Cancer, and Body shaming

daniellemjoyce's review against another edition

challenging dark inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Self harm, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Cancer, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Vomit, Alcoholism, Addiction, Alcohol, Medical content, Gaslighting, Body shaming, and Child abuse

Moderate: Grief and Death of parent

rikkinic's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Grief, Terminal illness, Addiction, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Sexual content, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Body shaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Self harm, and Vomit

Minor: Classism, Cursing, Stalking, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Drug use, Excrement, Sexual content, Medical trauma, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault