Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir by Brian Broome

23 reviews

honeyvoiced's review

dark reflective sad

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Racism, and Alcohol

Moderate: Racial slurs and Sexual content

Minor: Fatphobia and Death of parent

planning2read's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, and Racism

Moderate: Racial slurs

ladydi412's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Sexual content

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, and Racism

Minor: Child abuse

d0505's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Hate crime, Racial slurs, and Racism

lpfoley's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

Broome’s writing is visceral. Each vulnerable story he shares about his childhood, his relationship with his father, his relationship with his mother, his addiction, his shame around not fitting into the mold of masculinity that was prescribed to him — each damn story — is told absolutely dripping in truth and emotion. It’s such an honest peek into a beautiful human spirit. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexual content

parasolcrafter's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Racism, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cursing, Fatphobia, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

hyac1nthgirl's review

challenging emotional reflective tense slow-paced

4.5

beautiful, painful, real. broome's words are thoughtful & poetic while relaying raw emotion. a chapter that stood out to me was the chapter in his mother's point of view. what a beautiful tribute to her and what a beautiful way to humanize a figure most people have trouble humanizing, the mother.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

mpruter's review

dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, and Outing

mitzybitzyspider's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny and Suicide

Minor: Suicide attempt

dramaqueentears's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

4.0

When I saw the glowing review that Kiese Laymon wrote for this memoir, I immediately added it to my TBR and it did not disappoint. Brian Broome’s memoir is incredible. 

I think it was an incredible picture of how homophobia and anti-Blackness intersect. He writes of his upbringing in northeastern Ohio and how he eventually ended up in the big city of Pittsburgh hoping that his trauma wouldn’t follow him, but unfortunately it did. He had a lot to say about the toxic masculinity that his father enforced, the racism he experienced in the gay dating scene, and the experience of searching for love because he felt like it was missing from his life. 

This memoir is written in essays that jump around various points of his life. I also liked the essays that he wrote comparing parts of his time growing up to experiences he had as an adult. 

I have mixed feelings about the parts of the book following Broome’s observations of a young Black boy on the bus in Pittsburgh with his father. On one hand, I understand the point of what he was trying to do, but sometimes it felt like projection. I very well acknowledge I could be wrong though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Fatphobia