Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

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

85 reviews

gmdho2023's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Medical trauma, Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, and Infidelity

dckathleen's review against another edition

hopeful informative lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.5

A book about taxonomy and seekinh inspiration in the face of personal failures...and also murder, eugenics, and proving that the category of fish isn't accurate. Oh, and a very flawed hero. 

CW for self harm. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Suicidal thoughts

emmettdakool's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

bookbrig's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

I learned a lot from this relatively short audiobook, but it wasn't quite what I expected. Which is my own fault for not reading a summary first, but for other readers have a heads up that there's a lengthy dive into eugenics that is well reported and interesting, but heavier than I was anticipating from the cover. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Death, and Racism

Minor: Suicide attempt and Infidelity

nhewitt99's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

the_kernel's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Rape and Suicide attempt

readingjaunt's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Medical trauma, Child death, Child abuse, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual assault, and Racism

Minor: Infidelity and Self harm

justkellyann's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Xenophobia and Rape

inthemoonlight's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

I genuinely have no words for much this impacted me. It is truly beautifully and completely done. 

My only warning would be to look at any trigger warnings if that's something that would impact you. I personally went in blind, not even knowing what it was about, and did not realize how dark things would be. Vital to talk about, but still potentially triggering nonetheless.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Genocide, Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, Racism, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death, Rape, Child death, and Physical abuse

newandhorrible's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny informative medium-paced

5.0

I suggested this book to my book club after another friend said that HER book club read it and really liked it. It was short (5ish hours on audio), and nobody had any glaring objections, so we chose it.

And let me tell you. I had NO IDEA what I had gotten us into.

This book defies every genre you try and put it in.

Part biography, part taxonomy textbook, part memoir, part coming-out story, part history-of-eugenics-and-its-ramifications, part MURDER MYSTERY???

I enjoyed it SO MUCH, way more than I thought I would based on the description. I'm so thankful my friend recommended it, and I will definitely be looking to her for more recommendations.

She lost me a little bit with justification of "fish don't exist". I'm not quite ready to give up the fish yet, but maybe someday.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Minor: Car accident