Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

All That Remains by Sue Black

5 reviews

apersonfromflorida's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Child death, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Child abuse, Grief, and Pedophilia

Minor: Rape, Sexual violence, and Cancer

caidyn's review against another edition

dark informative fast-paced

4.5

An excellent book! It was very quick and easy to understand. Not to mention there's a good sense of humor to it. Overall, a very good book about death and forensics.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Grief, Death, Dementia, Death of parent, and Cancer

navayiota's review against another edition

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

5.0

This memoir has inspired me to one day delve into anatomy, a subject I, until very recently, found uninteresting and dated. How wrong I was. I want to start a blog where I recommend books just so I can put this on there. I'm beyond shocked at the fact that I haven't been recommended this before, and will be righting this wrong, because wow. The life this woman has lived is impressive and enrapturing. The descriptions of her experiences are as rich as her humour. I was simply hypnotised. Not to mention heartbroken.. this is absolutely not for the faint of heart, but if you feel prepared to face the horrors of human cruelty, read this book. You will not regret it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Pregnancy, Genocide, Murder, Trafficking, Torture, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Medical content, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, and Alcohol

Minor: Abandonment and Cancer

peppermint_kiss's review

dark emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

I really enjoyed this book, which provided a good balance between interesting case studies and the philosophical musings of the author.  Although I don't agree with all of her thoughts and opinions, I feel she did a good job explaining and exploring them, using her life experiences as a springboard.  I especially appreciated the respect with which every topic was approached.  That said, although I did learn some interesting tidbits about her field of work, and found the book interesting and entertaining, it did not contain any big "wow" or "a-ha!" moments that would be necessary for me to rate it higher.  Still very much recommended for those interested in the subject, though.  Note that some of the cases explored in the book, especially related to children and war, are quite disturbing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Mass/school shootings, Gore, Violence, War, Death, Genocide, Medical content, Murder, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Hate crime

Moderate: Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Mass/school shootings, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Suicide, Body horror, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Gun violence, Animal death, Incest, Terminal illness, and Blood

Minor: Pregnancy, Rape, Vomit, Cancer, Cannibalism, Torture, Chronic illness, Dementia, Self harm, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts

arabellaruby's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Pedophilia, Dementia, Cannibalism, Cancer, Violence, Murder, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Death, War, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Animal death