Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Over the Top: My Story by Jonathan Van Ness

9 reviews

rayreyes's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Infidelity, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual content, Transphobia, and Grief

Minor: Animal death and Death

tieflingmom's review against another edition

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Outing, Alcohol, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

pacifickat's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

I'm not sure I could have read a memoir about someone with more different life experiences to my own, but here's to a year of reading broadly! 

The audiobook absolutely made this book work for me as a reader. There were so many jokes and moments that relied on anticipating the correct voice intonation in order to completely land, and it was fun hearing JVN's humor come through in the audio narration. Plus, I would have hopelessly butchered all the Russian pseudonyms in my head.

Lots of trigger warnings could be applied to this book (childhood trauma, sexual content, drug use, self harm, bullying, etc.), but I have rarely heard more accurate or compelling descriptions of addictive behaviors and the self-destructive-yet-all-consuming mental state behind them than here. This felt like an extremely honest and open account of the author's most formative life experiences, and I can't help but admire that. 

I also really appreciated learning a bit about AIDS/HIV stigma, treatments, and current positive prognoses when caught early and managed carefully. This kind of information is truly a public service to get out there in the open.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Self harm, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Dementia, and Alcohol

Minor: Eating disorder and Fatphobia

bebidocrimes's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring fast-paced

This captures Jonathan's voice so so well, it feels like we were just chatting at a coffee shop. I have been told time and time again, directly or indirectly, that I am too loud, I'm too much, I won't stop rambling on and on when I'm excited about something. It just feels so good to be reminded that I can find people who will love me for all that I am. Looking forward to getting my hands on his next book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Vomit, and Grief

streberkatze's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, and Sexual assault

itstheconnorsbookclub's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

rainbowjawn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Drug abuse, and Homophobia

Moderate: Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Eating disorder and Injury/Injury detail

_inge's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring medium-paced

3.0

This feels very authentic. It’s clearly written by Jonathan, so that does mean it’s not structured as nicely or does anything special, but you can tell so much thought and effort has been put into it. Jonathan explains issues within the LGBTQ+ community because JVN feels they’re important to share, not because the publishers wanted to put them in. I’d especially recommend the audiobook, I really can’t imagine this coming across as well on paper. 

This audiobook was genuinely a hopeful one. We all mess up in life, we might not immediately achieve our goals, but if you stay true to who you are despite what others might say or do, you’ll get there in the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Grief, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Pedophilia, Self harm, Vomit, and Kidnapping

alishamegan's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Homophobia, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts