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I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

1516 reviews

idkleaf's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

wow. i am so glad i listened to jennette read her book. you really do never know what anyone has endured. beautifully written. i walked away from this book horrified, sympathetic, and with a deep feeling of uneasiness that i need to talk to my therapist about some things.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cancer, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Alcohol

thisisdelphine's review

challenging dark funny hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

nixicat1's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Vomit, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, and Medical content

cha_cha_reads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

lindasoderlundd's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual content, Blood, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Cursing, Drug use, Infidelity, and Toxic relationship

gwenpool's review

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

124 highlights, too many jaw drops to count, and days ahead of yaj book club. her writing is just so good that it’s hard to stop reading. I would get to the daily goal for book club but keep reading because it was pulling me in!!!! 

the topics she deals with and speaks about in this book are so real and well fleshed out, even when she’s having her inner monologue from her past self you can’t judge her thoughts because you know exactly why she’s thinking that way. im so glad after all this she’s gotten to where she is now. 

I have so many thoughts about this book but i can’t put them into words so #dealwithit

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Vomit, and Death of parent

Minor: Body shaming, Cancer, Chronic illness, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Medical content, Grief, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

akgloege's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Self harm

hkershaw28's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

trienekata's review against another edition

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Physical abuse

thegardenlesbian's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

Simply put, a great book. I usually don't care for memoirs (mainly because I don't care about famous people, especially celebrities) but this one was very thoughtful. I pretty much never watched the author's shows, so I didn't know much about her, but while reading I felt deeply for her. I hope she can be happy and that she goes on to do great things (even if it's 'just' being happy). Rather than being glad her mom died, I'm glad she seems recovered (or to be recovering, as it can be a lifelong process). Either way, her mom dying (both literally and, more importantly, metaphorically, as her presence was still within the author) definitely was what she needed  — even as heartless as it may sound.

My one critique: I would have loved to get more 'guidance' on i.e. what age she was when a chapter started, because I found myself sometimes lost at the beginning of some of them because of the time jump.

All in all, the author's writing style is enjoyable and realistic, showing both the vulnerable and the funny, balancing the cynical and apathetic with the emotional and caring.

That scene in the end when she recalls the time when she was purging without having checked that the rest of the stalls were empty beforehand, only for a kid to ask for her autograph as she's vomiting was, in all its unrelatability, completely relatable.

If you can tolerate the trigger warnings, I would definitely recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, Blood, and Medical content

Minor: Infidelity, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Lesbophobia