Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

50 reviews

bookishlittleme's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Maya Angelou is an incredibly significant figure in the arts and this is definitely a must read! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Ableism, Car accident, and Abandonment

Minor: Body shaming, Blood, and War

nico_lechat's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexual content, and Police brutality

Minor: Murder and Pregnancy

a_bloom's review

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

It took a little while for me to get used to the writing and actually interested in the story, but within a hundred pages it REALLY captured my attention. Her writing is beautiful and descriptive and painfully aware of how her younger self perceived the situation of her birth and life. However, the last few chapters come off awkward as it strays from the usual pacing, but considering she had more autobots it makes sense.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, and Abandonment

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, and Abortion

Minor: Gun violence, Hate crime, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Pregnancy, and War

passionatereader78's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

Maya let's us into her past. This book was inspiring. I enjoyed learning more about this great lady.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Racism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Abandonment

amandas_bookshelf's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Classism

Moderate: Death and War

Minor: Abortion

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Murder, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Sexual content, Medical content, Grief, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child death, Drug use, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Car accident, War, and Classism

Poverty, WWII, concentration camps, Japanese displacement, homelessness, d slur.

emilyandthewhippet's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

mrsdarcylynn's review against another edition

slow-paced

4.0

I think I’m going to bump up my star rating- I had an average reading experience, but that may have been due to the darker elements of the book. In the end, I had a really hard time connecting to the narrative and the “so what”- maybe because I have read other narratives/stories like this one. Or maybe because so many memoirs today take the individual experience and connect it to larger world/societal events. Or maybe I don’t find memoirs about one’s childhood that interesting? 

I struggled with some of the authors outdated views regarding fatness,  being gay, and a few other issues that really took me out of the reading experience. I definitely recommend looking at trigger warnings before diving in- there’s some heavy topics. 

I think I would have benefited from reading some of her other work before her autobiography. Maybe then I would have connected to her writing on a deeper level. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Fatphobia, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Abandonment

iroth's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Rape

Moderate: Violence and Abandonment

michaelion's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.25

One thing that makes it hard to get through nonfiction is that it is often pure and objective fact, nothing but hard statements and the evidence to back it up, but Angelou writes in a way that doesn't just feel the way a memoir / autobiography would, like someone telling their life story, but in a way that is colorful and bright and fluid like fiction usually is. Well, good fiction at least.

And on a personal note a lot of moments hit a little tew close to home. I'm not gonna list them but not me and Miss Dr Angelou living the same life having the same experiences feeling the same feelings!!! I had to put the book down a couple times and cover my face!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Racism, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Racial slurs, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Fatphobia, Hate crime, Police brutality, and Abortion