Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

176 reviews

blizzardinsummer's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad

5.0

Thank you, Chanel, for sharing your story and standing up for fellow survivors of sexual assault. Your words are powerful. You are powerful. 

This was one of the most heart wrenching and beautifully written memoirs I’ve read. It’s a must read for everyone, especially survivors and people who know a survivor, and trust me, even if you don’t think you know one, you likely do, they just haven’t shared that part of their lives with you. 

And if you are a survivor yourself, know that you are not alone. Chanel is with you. I am with you. All of us are with you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Suicide and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Racism and Suicidal thoughts

chrysos79's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Alcohol

Moderate: Suicide and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Racism and Medical content

jelkebooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

I still don't read enough non-fiction to properly review it. All I can say is that this was an incredibly compelling read. I loved Chanel Miller's writing. I think she was really good at conveying her emotions and really pulling you in. If you can handle the subject matter I do truly think this is required reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Sexual assault

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Drug use, Racism, Suicide, Police brutality, and Mass/school shootings

This book also has heavy content warnings for trauma, and victim blaming.

cspleenster's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Suicide

supermanninja23's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Grief, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mass/school shootings

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

sebulba's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Alcohol

Minor: Domestic abuse

thursdd4y's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Mass/school shootings

annalisenak97's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

5.0

Masterpiece. Instant classic. Gut punch. What to say about this incredible book? Miller doesn't just draw back the curtain on women's need for constant vigilance and gender violence, she burns it. Her story, searing, honest, and fierce, blazes with pain, light, healing, and tenacity. I have never been spoken to so clearly, touched so deeply, and I've certainly never sobbed so hard with grief. This is a lament and a rocky path out of darkness. Miller's writing is clear, gorgeous, expressive, and incredibly well-crafted. Really a life-changing book.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Suicide and Mass/school shootings

cmruth98's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

“I wrote this book because the world can be harsh and terrible and unforgiving. I wrote because there were times I did not feel like living. I wrote because the court system is slow as a snail, and victims are forced to spend so much time fighting, rather than spending their days creating, drawing, cooking. I wrote to expose the brutalist of entitlement, gender violence, and class privilege in our society. But I would be failing you if you walked away from this book untouched by humanity, without seeing what I saw: those thousands of handwritten letters, the green-lipped fish at the bottom of the ocean, the winking court reporter. All the small miracles that sustained me.” 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Alcohol

robinks's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

This was such a powerful, revolutionary memoir, and listening to it read by Chanel was so moving. I am hopeful that society is moving in a direction where victims do not have to go nearly as far as Chanel did to receive appropriate justice. I am also hopeful that these acts of violence can continue to be intercepted by community and looking out for each other. Believe victims, and believe women.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Gun violence, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, and Classism

Minor: Vomit