Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

Still Life with Bones by Alexa Hagerty

11 reviews

thesvnthsense's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Genocide, Gore, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

jobaji's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

So, so powerful. Was tearing up by page 2, and never really stopped 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Alcohol

finnickdeservedbetter's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, and Pregnancy

artisjoke's review

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Torture, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Blood, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

Minor: Excrement and Pregnancy

cmisich's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

A well written detail of not only the recovery, identification, and aftermath of genocides and the horrors in Argentina and Guatemala. It also covers the impact and hard work of those trying to bring the horror to light, identify the desaparecidos, and the challenges when those responsible still live among them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and War

joannalouise's review against another edition

challenging dark informative inspiring sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

apiologee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

vbarsi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

This is one of my favorite books of the year so far (I’ve read over 15 books as of May 2024). It combines history, forensic science, politics and religion, and cultural beliefs surrounding death with the anthropologists own personal stories and experiences of her life and her time doing forensic anthropology in Argentina and Guatemala. I think this is an incredible read, though it is gut-wrenching and challenging to read about the violence. It also shows how the United States is complicit in overthrowing democratically elected governments in favor of violent dictatorships, because it suits their financial interests. I will always think of Guatemala when someone tries to mention the United States as the moral compass of the world. Additionally Alexa highlights the corruption of the catholic church in Argentina

and their ability to overlook or help the dictatorship with disappearing people.

Overall, it was beautifully written, with amazing metaphors. The one quote that really hit me: “the work of mourning involves killing the dead or dying with them”. As someone who lost their dad at 10 years old this hit me in my feeeels. Will be recommending this to every person I know!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

kefink's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative slow-paced

5.0

Resonant and deeply moving. Absolutely a must read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Medical content, Grief, and War

bookbrig's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

I learned so much from this book, and it made me want to go back to reread The Bone Woman by Clea Koff. I only knew the very vaguest details about the history this book recounts, so I'm also hoping to read some of the books mentioned in the text for more context and info. This is a moving mixture of memoir and history and testimony and witness to atrocities that feels particularly timely, though I suppose it is unfortunately timely at any given moment. It's not a light read, but it is a really well written one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Kidnapping, and Gaslighting