Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

17 reviews

kadinelouise's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Homophobia, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Lesbophobia

the_robyn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Religious bigotry, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Death of parent

msladyreads's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, and Abandonment

tlholmes's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Minor: Confinement, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, and Classism

therecoveringbookworm's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Death of parent

jss's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, and Abandonment

janika96's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Homophobia and Blood

ceryswilliams's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective slow-paced

3.75

A gift! Extraordinarily generous and hopeful but equally devastating and crazy. For Grandma.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, and Abandonment

hattiefrankie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Incredibly raw. I felt so many emotions reading this book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Mental illness and Suicide attempt

emilyinherhead's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

4.0

This was my introduction to Jeanette Winterson’s work, and I immediately fell in love. She writes so thoughtfully and particularly, with no word wasted, composing beautiful sentences even about the most heart-shattering experiences. Her childhood was a difficult one, to drastically understate it, but the way she describes being educated and saved by books is powerful. And her search for details of her long-ago adoption, as she learns to love and to accept love as an adult—heartbreaking and inspiring.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Suicidal thoughts