Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki

23 reviews

sarah_kula's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Colonisation

harrimann's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Infertility, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Abortion, and Pregnancy

kstericker's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Eating disorder, Infertility, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Infidelity, Racism, Sexual content, Medical content, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Racial slurs, Cannibalism, and Abortion

bridgetwillson's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book was very upsetting and hard to read at times. Overall sense of hopelessness. That being said, it was something I needed to read, and the fictional narrative made it gripping and fast paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

sgbray's review against another edition

funny informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, and Pregnancy

bookwyrmsam's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I thought this book was well written and the thematic exploration was interesting, there just wasn't anything here that I think will stick with me after closing the book. I do wonder how much of that is the amount of time that has passed since publication; I was already well aware of how horrifying the meat industry in the Unites States is before reading this, it's part of why I rarely eat meat. I also wanted the discussions of domestic violence, and miscarriage to go further. Those arcs felt rushed/incomplete to me when the book came to a close.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Miscarriage, Racism, Xenophobia, and Pregnancy

bethnelson's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Infertility, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

emmablue's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

2.5

i really thought this was gonna be my new fav :(

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Cancer, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Racism, Blood, Vomit, Abortion, and Alcohol

alyssatuininga's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny informative reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Excrement, and Pregnancy

ltam's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Rape, and Pregnancy