Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller

15 reviews

quarcusrubrum's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Car accident

luckyonesoph's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.25

I really love this blend of popular science and memoir, and I appreciate the author's attention to problematic beliefs and theories that often underlie scientific discovery. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Xenophobia

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Death, and Rape

greentearex's review against another edition

informative lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.0

Really enjoyed the audio book, you can tell by the delivery that the author worked/works for NPR. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, and Murder

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

A lesson in embracing chaos/nihilism, and never meeting your heros

emmettdakool's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, and Suicide attempt

justkellyann's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Rape and Xenophobia

whatannikareads's review against another edition

informative reflective sad fast-paced

2.75

nooooooot y’all tricking me into reading about a eugenicist!!

i’m a mixed bag of emotions about this book. after about halfway through i think the first half of the book was completely unnecessary/a different book altogether. i fell asleep quite a few times during the first half. the second half was much more interesting, but i kept getting whiplash on the organization of it; we kept switching from history to memoir to social science. i don’t feel the memoir section was expanded enough to be super engaging. the connection between the writer and david star jordan, aside from her research of him, felt like a reach. i think if she has developed her story more, or just made it a completely separate book, it could’ve been more enjoyable. the whole book could’ve just been 3 different articles tbh. it felt like reading a really long op-ed and i don’t think ot should’ve been a book tbh.

also again, i don’t know if talking about how shitty his beliefs were in the second half made up for how nicely he was portrayed in the first half?? it was just very clearly not written by a person of color lol. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Death, Racism, Xenophobia, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

carmenthecowboy's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Cursing, Genocide, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, and Xenophobia

val_so_'s review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Xenophobia, Cultural appropriation, and Classism

del_phinium's review against another edition

inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Xenophobia, and Murder

Moderate: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Rape

claudiamacpherson's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Homophobia, Racism, and Xenophobia