Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley

13 reviews

trippalli's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

A poetic reflective memoir with beautiful writing and picturing emotional but also hard to hear stories of survival and persistence. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Racism, Rape, and Sexual assault

ashleycmms's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Misogyny and Racism

Minor: Gun violence

chavonnwshen's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug use, and Sexual assault

oreoo1's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Slavery, and Grief

Minor: Rape

elizastiles's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Racism, and Sexual assault

knunderb's review against another edition

challenging hopeful reflective slow-paced

5.0

This book was beautiful. It was poetic and spoke truth in a way I hadn't thought of before. I feel I will return to it again and again and glean more out of it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Death of parent

cerlenborn's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse and Sexual assault

unsuccessfulbookclub's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

Wow. I am once again very mad at myself for waiting so long to read a book.

Some books feel like cold water on a hot day - quenching, refreshing, invigorating, simple but awe-inspiring. This is one of those books. It is incredibly comforting and also challenging in the best way. It made me think, it made me feel, and most of all, it inspired me to connect more deeply with my faith in a way that enriches everyone around me. To seek God in the mundane. To lament that the world is cruel and people are horrible but to continue to hope and rejoice when things are made right. To rest. To resist capitalism’s erosion of my humanity and that of those around me.

Cole Arthur Riley is super talented. This book feels like literary fiction in its style. It’s beautiful and moving. I found myself underlining and rereading passages that resonated with me but also because the words were put together in unique and compelling ways. 

👍🏻Recommended! If you enjoy meditative, spiritual stories and beautiful prose, you will like this. If you enjoy bell hooks or Audre Lorde, this will resonate with you. If you are seeking a way to belong to a faith that has been twisted to exclude you? You will like this.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Pregnancy

Minor: Slavery

fabell6's review against another edition

inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

Beautiful book to be savored. Every few paragraphs I wanted to journal or sit in contemplation. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Gun violence, Racism, and Sexual assault

le3713's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Chronic illness, and Racism

Minor: Rape