Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

I am Not Myself These Days by Josh Kilmer-Purcell

7 reviews

dananana's review against another edition

 I was gonna read this for my book club, but my work schedule ended up changing last minute so I couldn’t go and decided not to continue with this one. I was already considering dnf’ing, though (as you might have guessed, since I only got 60 pages in). The narration was stressing me out – it’s often very difficult for me to read books about people making destructive choices. Plus, there were a few off-color jokes about trans people that were probably “acceptable” in 2006 when this was published, but with everything going on right now in the news… it was just a bit much for me to deal with. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Transphobia

olivejuice04's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

3.0

I finished this and felt nothing. It was like going through a complicated point in your life and moving on without having any emotional connection to the memory. I felt as empty as the narrator’s reaction to everything around them. I’m not sure if that’s the author’s intention or if it’s just bad writing. Maybe we as readers were meant to feel as disconnected as Aqua felt. Other than that the racial jokes were uncomfortable and unnecessary. I don’t know how to feel about this book, maybe I’ll re-read it in the future and come back with a new perspective. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, Alcohol, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Domestic abuse

swagsterx0's review against another edition

made me uncomfy but if i was in a different headspace would be amazing book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Addiction, Homophobia, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

Moderate: Blood

christina_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Alcohol

aoifemarie's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Drug use, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Cursing, and Alcohol

karenaerts's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Homophobia, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Vomit

hela's review

dark funny medium-paced

0.25

I don’t really like giving low ratings to memoirs because it’s someone’s life story, but this one had some real flaws I think should be noted for anyone thinking about picking it up. The story focused on the author, his addictions, his partner, and his addictions. It was quite dark and graphic despite the comedic way it was written (which felt somewhat forced and fell flat for me). The story felt really repetitive from even before the halfway point; the writing felt like an anecdote the author had used too many times. But where it really lost me was when he was preparing for a trip to Japan, and he (a caucasian author) started mocking the Japanese accent for like three pages of dialogue. If I wasn’t reading it for a bookclub, I would have stopped right there and not finished it.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, and Sexual assault