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I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

954 reviews

collarbonehigh's review

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

reajc's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

nicola_scutt's review

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Cancer, Child abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and Self harm

nikkxtine_'s review

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, and Dysphoria

jessawilson's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.0

I would have preferred to hear more about her heading journey. The ending felt rushed to wrap things up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

solarel's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

kaylabsimon's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

4.5

Incredible, raw, and very sad at times. I am horrified that no adults in Jennette’s life stood up for her the way she needed them to. She’s an excellent author and I loved the way her prose changed over the length of the book. Getting more mature and complex as she ages in the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Grief

lucyrudd's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

courtofbooksanddogs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

This book. It feels weird to sum up in words what I think of someone else’s life story and traumas. For that reason, I’m not rating it, but I’ll try to talk more about how this book made me feel rather than critique the content. 

I’m Glad my Mom Died is a memoir about the author’s experience as a child star on Nickelodeon, having a narcissistic mother, eating disorders, religious deconstruction, OCD, and other things. I highly recommend listening to this 100% on audiobook at 1.0x. It’s worth taking the time to hear the author’s voice inflections as she tells her story. 

This book isn’t light. The quip on the cover saying it’s funny is weird to me because it’s not. It’s heavy and it’s dark at times. I waited to read this until I felt I was in a place to be able to handle it. It made me feel angry, baffled, but most of all sad. Not just for the author, but for so many who struggle with similar issues as her and her mother. What I deeply appreciate the most is she takes a good amount of the book to share her experiences in therapy. It’s a raw account of how hard therapy is and that healing is not a linear process. We don’t get it right immediately and sometimes it’s gets harder before it gets better. 

I’m so grateful for her willingness to share her story with the world. I took pieces I needed out of it for my own life. It was truly a privilege to listen to her story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

nessasreadingnook24's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis