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Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller
36 reviews
cornfusedsnow's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Ableism and Forced institutionalization
Moderate: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, and Murder
Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Infertility, Rape, Self harm, and Sexual assault
maddiearthur's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Ableism, Genocide, Infertility, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, and Colonisation
Moderate: Biphobia and Child death
Minor: Self harm
mirto's review
5.0
Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Hate crime, Infertility, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Gaslighting, and Classism
Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, and War
kirtreads's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Body horror, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Medical trauma
kayeofswords's review against another edition
That said, I enjoyed learning more about how taxonomy got started and the ways in which it fed into ideological currents, positive and negative, that have persisted to this day. A lot of DSJ's behavior sounds a bit narcissistic ... easy to fly under the radar earlier in his life, explosive and dangerous the more authority he had. I didn't know anything about him before starting to read this book and wasn't expecting that he would veer from taxonomy into eugenics. That was sobering. Really great structural organization to all of this.
The last 45 seconds of the audiobook epilogue was <em>adorable</em> and five-star.
Also, I'm so happy that fish don't exist. I use it as a generic term for aquatic life in some of my non-Earth specfic and now feel like I can do that with impunity.
Graphic: Ableism, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Medical trauma
The author describes some heavy stuff, both in history (the eugenics movement, primarily, with all that entails) and in her own life (mental health/suicide).intpkatharine's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Bullying, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt
I keep this book on my person at all times and reread it because it feels like a safe space. It’s just so personal.apestforwrens's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Child death, Mental illness, and Murder
Eugenicsadeliab's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Drug abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Ableism, Medical trauma, and Murder
Minor: Alcoholism, Genocide, Infidelity, Rape, Self harm, Car accident, and Death of parent
katyaw's review against another edition
3.0
The author writes well, but the book really centers on nihilism and human destructiveness in the name of desperately searching for order and comfort in this world.
I wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone sensitive.
Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Genocide, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol
Minor: Rape and Abandonment
bi_n_large's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Ableism, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, and Murder