Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

112 reviews

aformeracceleratedreader's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I really enjoyed and related to this. I'm also mixed Asian with an Asian immigrant mother so the love/relationship in the book is very similar to my own with my mom. My mom also told my sisters and me a very big secret/life event that shook us and reminded us that we dont know our mom like we think we do like the author's mom telling the author her secret. I also strongly related with the discussion of identity and the struggles of not being seen as enough. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Terminal illness, Grief, Cancer, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Racism, and Alcohol

bashsbooks's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

A love letter to the complicated relationship between mother and child, Crying in H Mart navigates the grief of losing loved ones and the grief of being disconnected from your culture. Zauner has an incredible and strong voice, ripe with unique observations and striking linguistic choices. And tracing these emotion and relationships through food? Brilliant. 

Now I'm going to listen to Japanese Breakfast's Psychopomp.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Grief, Cancer, and Medical content

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Racism

Minor: Blood, Body shaming, Car accident, Infidelity, and Vomit

katschkekat's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Cancer, Chronic illness, and Death of parent

Minor: Addiction, Abortion, Medical content, Alcohol, Car accident, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Vomit, and Drug use

sapphotoni's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

sad 🥲

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Medical content, Xenophobia, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcohol, Car accident, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Excrement, and Vomit

paigereitz's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

This was such a wonderful memoir of mom-grief. There were times I struggled with my therapist-hat coming on too strong, but that's very much a "me" problem and not a book problem. The mom grief me, though, was hit over the head by a two-by-four with this book and the depth of feeling wrapped up in it, all told through a lens of the author managing her own biracial identity and what it meant before and after her primary tie to her Korean world died. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Cancer, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Grief, Death, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Alcohol, Body shaming, Alcoholism, and Emotional abuse

mbergman's review

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Medical content, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Grief, and Cancer

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Abortion

r_clark's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Cancer

mariebouthi's review

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Drug use, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Death, and Grief

filmnoirz's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

as someone who is so incredibly attached to her mother and has an awkward (to say the least) relationship with her father, my heart has been crushed and the itty bitty pieces found their way back to each other as the book came to an end. so so good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Minor: Xenophobia, Medical content, Mental illness, War, Racism, Violence, and Alcohol

eatingbrains's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

2.5

I don't even really know what to say, but I will try to put something about the reading experience into words.

It was alright.  I teared up a few times.  The descriptions of food were verbose and evocative, sometimes excessively so.  I love Maangchi.

This is a story of grief and mourning, of finding your identity and how it changes as you grow, relationships and connections.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Alcohol, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Death, Excrement, and Fatphobia

Minor: Abortion, Body shaming, Drug use, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Car accident, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Eating disorder, Religious bigotry, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, and Sexism