Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

25 reviews

passionatereader78's review against another edition

challenging hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Grief, Pregnancy, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Classism

lesiene's review against another edition

funny informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Pregnancy

mattyvreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

An absolute classic.

I remember reading it in high school. Certain passages really stuck with me. Overall, it is profoundly moving and very poignant. I liked it better back then, reading it as a teen, than I did now. I think that speaks to his style of writing and the fact that he captured his childhood memories in such an immersive and precise manner. Perhaps that was more relatable to me at that time, since I was his age in the book. Even though he is coming of age, he is still a child at the end of this story.

Content warning:

There are many detailed scenes depicting pubescent masturbation / underaged sexual relationships, and those parts are really tough to read. Just... pretty gross. Also, there is some physical abuse.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child death, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Child abuse and Domestic abuse

kierstratton's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

5.0

Felt emotionally tied to this book, as after reading it my grandfather (an immigrant from Ireland) once said this was essentially his childhood. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Excrement

marnash's review against another edition

challenging sad slow-paced

3.5

I don't think I've ever really heard about poverty at this magnitude. It was really interesting reading about it from the perspective of a child (Frank). It is described so matter-of-fact, so simply and straigh forwardly, and it's gut wrenching. It was a slow read, for sure, but I didn't find myself getting to bored by it. Not a lot happens, and there isn't a lot of change in individual characters, which makes it a very realistic chronicle of the impoverished life, at least that's how it reads to me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, and Xenophobia

nanimao's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Alcohol

brutiful_life's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual content

funyuns_the_movie's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Chronic illness, Sexual content, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Xenophobia and Excrement

thebowandthebook's review

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

2.5

Classic book, but very crass and sad. Lots of depressing content and sexual content. It brought intimate views of the poverty of Ireland in a wry humour. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, and Sexual content

Moderate: Abandonment and Injury/Injury detail

cilie's review against another edition

slow-paced

4.0

Frak McCourt narrates his own memoirer to perfection; He speaks a distinct Irish but does other dialects, like American and British, and he sings quite nicely when relevant. 

The story of McCourt's childhood in deep poverty is a heart breaking one, but also one full of love and kindness, hope and dreams. It reads like a novel with a narrative voice that develops slowly as Frank gets older. The characters spring of the page and come to life; some you hate, some you love and some break your heart.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Mental illness and Violence

Minor: Vomit