Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

The Woman They Could Not Silence: one woman, her incredible fight for freedom, and the men who tried to make her disappear by Kate Moore

25 reviews

thecozyrogue's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Forced institutionalization, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Confinement, Religious bigotry, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Suicide, Excrement, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt

kimtrepid's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

Kate Moore’s writing is beautiful. I am usually one for fantasy, but the way she writes histories is unlike others I’ve heard before. It’s inspiring to hear the life, challenges and accomplishments of Elizabeth Packard, her work must be remembered.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, and Medical trauma

isleofwoman's review against another edition

challenging dark inspiring sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Self harm, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

emilyferrise's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective tense slow-paced

3.0

I’m trying to read more nonfiction, so my rating could be a reflection of this book not being in one of my preferred genres. However, I loved the content of this book- the history of women’s rights and how mental illness diagnoses were handled in the mid 1800s. The subject, Mrs. Packard, is very likeable and the author does a great job presenting the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Mental illness

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Physical abuse

Minor: Suicide

megnut's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring slow-paced

4.25

An incredible story... but (as warning) with many warnings of the sexism & misogyny that controlled women's lives then and still affect us today. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, and Grief

Moderate: Suicide

ocoury23's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

*Review based on experiencing the book as an audiobook 

This book was incredible to listen to and learn from, but also was incredibly long. Elizabeth Packard was a name I had never heard before, but her story is inspiring and I would highly recommend this for book for any adult-level readers (due to the sensitive content that is discussed). Truthfully, my main drawback to this was the length - I’m not sure if I would be able to work my way through this again without taking my time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Suicide and Excrement

cmbohn's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, and Gaslighting

Minor: Eating disorder, Slavery, Suicide, Excrement, and Suicide attempt

lydiatheobald's review against another edition

informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse

Minor: Suicide and Forced institutionalization

racheldallaire's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Suicide

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

5.0

I feel like everyone needs to read this book. We owe so much to this woman. I am both inspired and buoyed by this woman and appalled and disgusted even further by weak men. The amount of research the author must’ve done is impressive, but even more so is the way she wrote this story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria