Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Year Of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

208 reviews

elliebasta's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Chronic illness, Suicide, Blood, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

judyzhu0407's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Alcohol

wayward's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

gaby13's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Medical content

barefootsierra's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Suicide and Murder

bellarosereichart's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Abandonment

melusinedln's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Medical content, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide and Murder

hjb_128's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness and Sexism

melissa_cosgrove's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

thoseoldcrows23's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

 I think this books has some really poignant things to say about grief and loss, and I appreciated that aspect of it immensely. However, there is (understandably) a lot of time spent reminiscing about Didion's life, and holy fuck are theses people painfully privileged. It made it kind of difficult to empathize at times, especially when highly privileged things were presented as normal. Like, I don't feel bad that traveling to Milan is ruined for you Joan. People are starving Joan. They can't afford health care Joan. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, and Grief