Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

41 reviews

kia_y_k's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

alexxxxandra's review against another edition

challenging dark informative inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Medical content, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, and Medical content

Minor: Body shaming, Cursing, Eating disorder, Self harm, Excrement, and Mass/school shootings

amyalicejakob's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

This was a truly astonishing and beautifully written book. I hadn't read the witness statement before reading this book, and whenever I think about her reading it out at the end of this audiobook, I shiver every time. The producers chose to leave in the pauses, and voice quivers as she reads it and it is truly one of the most powerful pieces of literature I have encountered in a long, long time. The whole book is very much in this vein too. She opens with doing herself down, frankly, by introducing her limits and spelling mistakes, and all the reasons we might think less of her account, and ashamedly I have to admit I felt a drop in my stomach. Please don't give them this ammo. Please, sell yourself. You shouldn't have to, of course, but this is the world we live in. Please. 
But I needn't have worried. Within minutes, it is clear that this brave and creative and intelligent and emotionally literate woman knows exactly what she is doing. The images she conjures up are sticking with me for life. I am in awe of this book, and though it was so tough at times, I do think it needs wider reading. The fact that a book so potentially polarising has such a high rating on goodreads is testament to its power. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Cursing, Drug use, Misogyny, Medical content, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

zakcebulski's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Medical content, Grief, and Gaslighting

purplepenning's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This is beautifully, powerfully written. If you're on the fence about reading it, please do. The audio is also very, very good (read by the author). I'm completely in awe.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

kateriv's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Chanel Miller provoked a visercal response from me with her book. She took me on a painful journey in such vivid detail that I felt as if I was a ghost who she was leading by the hand through this part of her life. Not only did she do this most eloquently,  but she achieved what I saw as her ultimate goal - making victims seen as individuals, their trauma at the end of a long list of what has made up their lives, of who they are as PEOPLE. I do not think “I read about Chanel Miller, who is a victim of assault.” I think “Chanel Miller writes so beautifully, and makes such interesting art. Chanel Miller is such a ferociously loving sister. I cant believe she did stand up comedy - how cool is that!” To me, she is an intricate, interesting woman who I would love to know. 

Not that she would ever see this, but I closed this book whispering a string of thank yous to her.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Cursing, Gun violence, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

ednam0dewannabe's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexism, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, Misogyny, Medical content, Grief, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Emotional abuse and Blood

nebraskanwriter's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.5

“I encourage you to sit in that garden [at Stanford] but when you do, close your eyes, and I’ll tell you about the real garden, the sacred place. Ninety feet away from where you sit there is a spot where Brock Turner’s knees hit the dirt, where the Swedes tacked him to the ground, yelling ‘What the f*** are you doing? Do you think this is okay?’ Put their words on a plaque. Mark that spot, because in my mind  I’ve erected a monument. The place to be remembered is not where I was assaulted, but where he fell, where I was saved, where two men declared stop, no more, not here, not now, not ever.”   

“This book does not have a happy ending. The happy part is there is no ending, because I’ll always keep finding a way to keep going.” 

I had to set this book down many times because of all the intense emotions it made me feel. I felt so angry over how the justice system fails victims, how Stanford failed Chanel and then tried to patch it up by creating a garden where she was raped, the emotional weight her, her family and friends endured all throughout the trial and to this day. 

This was a very hard book to read but too often as a society, we smooth over the cracks in our facade and look away from the pain, only wanting to see this idealistic and perfect thing. We ignore the bad, rewarding the society-accepted “good”. Chanel didn’t have the option to ignore the bad that was thrust onto her, she experienced society’s bad at full capacity. Seeing her shine a light on it, pulling back the curtain of what she went through to expose the cracks in our legal system, colleges and media, it was a much needed reality check. 

Thank you, Chanel, for writing this book. Thank you for sharing your story with us all and continuing to fight. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Medical content, Grief, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

poppyamber's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Vomit, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

lucyrudd's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment