Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on by Franny Choi

20 reviews

bookmarktavern's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, and Police brutality

ryliereadss's review

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

4.25

I really enjoyed this collection of poems! There are poems written about the pandemic during the pandemic that I thought were relatable and unique. She writes about past loves, and the guilt she feels about one of them. The formatting of some of the poems was interesting and I liked the way they flowed together. I’ll definitely have to pick this collection up so I can give it to my friends to read!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide

One of her past boyfriends committed suicide so there are poems that reference it and jumping/falling off a roof.

idesofmarch's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Racism, Sexual assault, and Suicide

panickedhonking's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

A strange mix of the most tragic and heartbreaking poems which gave me a sense that there's something after every apocalypse. Exhaustive list of content warnings somehow non-exhaustive still.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Genocide, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Trafficking, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Abortion, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

hanhantap's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, and War

Moderate: Death, Sexual assault, and Suicide

Minor: Rape

sakeriver's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

When I first read the title of this book, the image that came to mind was of a world—or perhaps a people—callously looking away and carrying on as if nothing had happened, one world ignorant of or insensitive to the ending of another. And this reading is present in the poems, though the poems’ speaker can never look away, from a family’s partition, a loved one’s suicide, one empire and then another crushing and raping those it has colonized, the grief of past endings, and the terror of those unfolding now. 

 

Yet the title also can suggest a world of persistence, of survival. A world that continues beyond the conflagration, coming out the other side. One where a future great-great-granddaughter might wonder about her ancestor’s life. Where life can still exist, even flourish. And this reading, too, is present in the poems. 

 

The poems hold both of these worlds in their hands, and they allow—require—the reader to hold them, too. They cry out in pain and fear, and whisper gently in comfort, too. Not the comfort of exoneration or complacency, but the comfort of a stranger’s milk offered to wash the tear gas from our eyes, of the thought that perhaps this will not all be in vain. That perhaps some future child will say: “thank you for healing / what you could; for passing down what you couldn’t.” 

 

I think I needed this book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Sexual violence, Suicide, Colonisation, and War

tmchopra's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Police brutality, Grief, Suicide attempt, Colonisation, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

meaghanelizabook's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and War

Moderate: Suicide

juney_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Colonisation, War, and Classism

this poetry collection is amazing. Incredibly sad at points, but the use of sunsets and nature as something tragic, disturbing, and overbearing really is incredibly powerful and moving. I really enjoyed this book. 💝

words_and_coffee's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Sexual assault, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Grief, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Police brutality