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I'm Glad My Mom Died, by Jennette McCurdy

203 reviews

klimatyczny_bluszcz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

It's hard to rate a book so vunerable and honest as this one. However, I also liked the construction and writing of it, so I decided to rate it anyway. So important and moving!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Grief, Addiction, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Chronic illness, Alcoholism, Sexual violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fatphobia, Death of parent, Cancer, Body shaming, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

meaghanpal's review

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

The beginning of this book felt a bit slow at points. Perhaps it was the choppy dialogue bits that I always find a bit confusing in memoirs because the dialogue surely can’t be one hundred percent what happened. Memory bits aside, the book was very interesting to hear about Jennette McCurdys point of view and her life experience especially when I saw a smal part of it on screen growing up. Also, I find it helpful to read about relationships with moms that are not the picture perfect best friend one depicted in Gilmore Girls. I relate to Jennette a lot more. The middle and end of the book were more fast paced with shorter chapters at points that helped the book flow. I guess I started to appreciate her writing style more once it got to the point where she was on Nickelodeon because I had more of a connection with that time in my own life. Jennette does a great job processing her emotions and experiences and I can only begin to imagine what a tiring and long process that was and is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Medical content, Addiction, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Drug use, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Alcohol, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, and Vomit

Minor: Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Stalking, Sexual violence, and Self harm

Highly encourage anyone to read the trigger/content warnings the book is very graphic. While I think it is good I am cautious recommending it because of the explicit content.

becca_w_'s review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Cursing, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Stalking, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Medical content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Addiction, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, and Sexual content

Moderate: Blood and Pedophilia

Minor: Abandonment

This book is great, but if you struggle with an eating disorder I would recommend not reading it. There is extremely triggering content related to that throughout the book! Just do what you think is the best for you :)

deannamartin113's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Cancer, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, and Alcoholism

Minor: Sexual violence, Death of parent, and Cursing

tertsg's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Eating disorder, Grief, Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Dysphoria, Cancer, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Death, Body shaming, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Sexual assault, Self harm, Rape, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, and Addiction

vaguely_pink's review

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Addiction, Fatphobia, Grief, Mental illness, Alcohol, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Vomit, Cursing, Death of parent, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Gaslighting, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Stalking, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Classism, Chronic illness, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Excrement, and Drug abuse

narcissisticallymiya's review

dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Related a bit too much but It makes me sad thinking about her ICarly and Sam&Cat

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Eating disorder, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, Addiction, and Alcoholism

talyahonor23's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Cancer, Bullying, and Body shaming

georgiacatt's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

This book was full of surprising insights to Jeanette’s life. I picked it up to hear about her experience with an eating disorder, which, although quite graphic and triggering in places, was extremely well written. It perfectly shows the nuance of eating disorders and how they are much more than a vanity issue. It is excellently written so much so that I feel I know each character which graced these pages personally. It is a modern day Mama Rose and Gypsy Rose Lee story that I struggled to put down.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Cancer, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

applesaucecreachur's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Family is complicated. That's a refrain I will echo up and down, but it means something different to everyone. To Jennette McCurdy, it means love, guilt, and responsibility in unequal measures. Pushed by her doting mother into a successful career that she hated at age six, and then an eating disorder that she loved (for a time) at eleven, McCurdy reveals what went on far behind the scenes of her projects. I grew up knowing her as Sam Puckett. By the time the I finished reading the acknowledgements, it was clear that this role which seemed to define her was only a facet of everything that she is, and certainly not a representative one. The independent juvenile delinquent of iCarly fame in reality had an overbearing mother rather than an absent one, and would never have let a Fat Cake or the butter in her character's sock pass her lips (at least not followed by a purge). 

This memoir is the most triggering one I've ever read. It's honest, meaning that it is both scathing and sensitive. The moments of tender abuse and painful revalations are interspersed with images of empty bottles and vomit-streaked arms. And yet, in the end, the story is not over. Recovery takes a long time. Healing takes a lifetime. For someone who spent her life unseen in the spotlight, Jennette McCurdy is generous to let us in on her progress. She's finally the one behind the camera. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Child abuse, and Body shaming

Moderate: Vomit, Alcoholism, and Sexual violence

Minor: Death of parent