Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

9 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

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

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

creativerunnings's review against another edition

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

the_bookish_owl's review against another edition

DNF at 116 pages. Too miserable and if the advert for the "sequel" is anything to go by nothing improves.

Content warnings for child death and alcoholism.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Racism, Grief, and Alcohol

mandi4886's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

Great writing and very detailed descriptions of life in poverty. I did find the ending to be a bit odd and lacking closure. I also found some of the details within this book to be unnecessary. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Abandonment, and War

Minor: Confinement, Genocide, Gore, Infertility, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Antisemitism, and Toxic friendship

ginadapooh's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Grief, and Alcohol

minimarie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring lighthearted sad medium-paced

4.75

Frank McCourt use of tragic humor in this book is brilliant, I’ve never in my life thought a book could make me want to cry, laugh, and be so angry. This book is truly makes you feel so many emotions while reading it. I wasn’t a big fan of biographies before read this book, this book made me love reading biographies that tell the struggles of many people up bring with a lighthearted twist to it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Bullying and Incest

child death from illness; this spoken about a lot in this book as he had multiple siblings pass in their adolescent years. Child abuse; it’s more neglect, as they treat him differently from the rest of his siblings. Incest; in the book it mentions that his mother is being sexual assaulted (?) by his uncle. Grief; there is different type of way each person in the book griefs especially depending on which person passes on.

amberinbookland's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Infertility, Blood, Grief, Pregnancy, and Alcohol