Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Blue Nights by Joan Didion

18 reviews

minkkmuse's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, and Death

miranda_mic's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death

kjbreads's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, and Child death

sofiadidonato's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death

ibergill's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This book is beautiful, heartbreaking, and introspective. Didion boldly tackled her grief and her fears and her questions in a way that invites empathy, curiosity, and encourages the reader to consider their own fears, memories and failings. One of my favorite books I have ever read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Child death

daniellekat's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

Beautifully written. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Grief, and Child death

Moderate: Chronic illness

isakr's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

Moderate: Cancer and Classism

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Murder, Classism, Chronic illness, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

emilycm's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

very painful and resonating in the bewilderment that grief and sudden loss can bring. i thought that there was an intention and real clarity in some things being loosely threaded together, but that the consistency of quintana's childhood, wedding, and death all blended into the same for didion writing this. this really gripped me, and as a lover of her work, i think this became one of my favorites. i especially think the beginning explanation of 'blue nights' and ending were really profound.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death

ajreffsin's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Death, Grief, Child death, and Terminal illness

islam_sulieman's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Child death, and Grief