Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby

30 reviews

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review

funny lighthearted fast-paced

5.0

     I thoroughly enjoyed this book! I was hilarious and highly relatable. If you are a woman who is perimenopausal or older, especially if you have had mental health struggles, I think you’ll love this book. Even if you aren’t you will probably find it an enjoyable read. 

   The author is so honest about everything she’s struggled with that it’s raw but not sloppy. Also, her imposter syndrome is highly relatable to most people. Though I could have done without some of the “Sex and the City” recaps of changes the author would make it was still funny. 

Narrator Rating: 4.5 stars 

   The author’s voice takes a little while to get used to, at least it did for me. But in the end, the author did an amazing job narrating this book. Having the author narrate a memoir helps you understand more how they felt at the time they wrote the book and when they were experiencing the events. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Cursing, Mental illness, Sexual content, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Abandonment, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Addiction, Biphobia, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Racism, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

ashleylynn's review against another edition

2.75

“Being perceived is excruciating. Especially if you can’t go person to person explaining why you look like that. I’d go to a lot more stuff if I knew I could take each person aside and explain to them why I look and dress the way I do.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Medical content, and Death of parent

amachonis's review against another edition

dark emotional funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Sexual content, Excrement, Vomit, and Medical content

Moderate: Fatphobia and Death of parent

zombiezami's review

While I find Samantha Irby's delivery and comedic style to be endearing, the topics in this book weren't very interesting to me and seemed too much like Wow, No Thank You. At a certain point I was like, yeah yeah, I get the picture

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Cursing, Sexual content, and Medical content

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Death of parent and Pregnancy

kylieqrada's review against another edition

funny lighthearted fast-paced

4.5

Anything that can make me laugh so hard I wake my baby up is worthy of a high rating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Medical content, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content, Vomit, and Pandemic/Epidemic

lily1304's review against another edition

funny lighthearted slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Medical content, and Medical trauma

adiajamille's review

slow-paced

3.0

This was my first Samantha Irby book. The self deprecation was just too nonstop for me. It made me feel like she actually hates herself but wants to mask it with jokes. There were disgusting (for me, I can’t deal with poo and there’s a lot), and occasionally funny, and to an extent very relatable. I’m not so concerned with the lack of continuity between essays, because that’s kind of the point of books filled with essays. That you share individual vignettes compiled in one place. I don’t know if I’m the audience, despite being a perimenopausal Black woman. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, and Death of parent

embervleo's review

funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.0

Another set of funny essays from Samantha Irby. I always prefer to read her books in audiobook format bc she narrates them. I appreciate her sense of humor around challenging/taboo topics like chronic illness and parental death. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Body horror and Medical content

Minor: Terminal illness, Vomit, and Death of parent

leweylibrary's review

dark funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.75

I went back and forth on the number of stars to give this one, but I'm settling on this because:

Yes, it was absolutely hilarious. That chapter about the allergic reaction was probably the funniest thing I have EVER read. 

I actually identified with a lot of the feelings, situations, etc. that Irby explored which is fun because we come from such very different backgrounds. A lot of the stuff we share in common revolves around anxiety so 😂

The Chicago rep obvi 🙌

I really could've done without the Sex in the City chapter. I know basically nothing about the show and truly do not care about it. Some parts were funny or relatable when she'd go off on a related but not SITC integral tangent, but I almost DNF'd at this point. I'm so glad I didn't, but still!

Early on in the book there is some like really graphic talk about sex and my asexual ass was so fucking uncomfortable lol. I'm sure others won't mind, but it was just too much for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Mental illness, Sexual content, Medical content, and Death of parent

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Racism and Sexism

edeanreads's review

funny lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Great and hilarious book! It was a fantastic listen as an audiobook. Additional content warning (and slight spoiler) ahead (it didn’t pop up as an option in the content warnings section):

this book includes a DETAILED description of someone going into anaphylactic shock. As an allergy parent who has experienced my child going through anaphylaxis, it was so hard to listen to. I’m ultimately glad I pushed through, but I would have appreciated a heads up.