Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up by Naya Rivera

11 reviews

ariajb's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Abortion

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Grief, and Toxic friendship

imbananasfordananas's review against another edition

lighthearted reflective fast-paced

3.25

I thought this was an okay book. I, personally, did not like the structure of the story-telling. I would have preferred if it was chronological. It started chronological but then glossed over details to come back to them later. It felt like the author was refreshing our memory when starting to tell a new story and in doing so, repeated herself a lot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Racial slurs, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Minor: Drug use and Toxic friendship

karendarias's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Abortion

Minor: Racial slurs and Racism

vivbot's review against another edition

funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Eating disorder, and Abortion

Minor: Racial slurs, Racism, and Colonisation

hayleythegoose's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Racial slurs, Racism, and Abortion

Moderate: Addiction, Death, and Drug abuse

Minor: Cursing

lindseybarnett's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Eating disorder

Moderate: Abortion

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

jaivscott's review against another edition

funny informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

I really appreciated this book. I’ve been wanting to get it for a long time, and it’s always nice to get a different perspective on life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Grief, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Racial slurs and Racism

Minor: Pedophilia

jcstokes95's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

2.75

Long story short, Youtube kept recommending me snippets of this book and I kept consuming them, so I decided to give in and read the gossip my personality so clearly requires. 

I think it's essential to remember, that different books have different purposes. If you came to this book for life advice or moral reflection, I am confused as to why you would do so. If you came for a light serving of chisme, you are in the right place. I wanna hear about egging your boyfriend's car. I suggest listening to this in audiobook form. Naya's writing style (I assume it is her writing, I don't know why, could be a ghostwriter, more likely but I don't mind, anyway...) has the feel of your distant friend who brings the drama with her. She's a fun frickin' time to talk to, but you'd be a little worried to be around her all the time. I think this is the perfect tone for a celebrity memoir. 

[2021 Popsugar Reading Challenge #17 - A book that has the same title as a song]

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism and Racial slurs

wolfiegrrrl's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

3.0

I am glad I opted to listen to the audiobook so I could hear the tone and inflection in her voice. Her style of writing feels very much like a conversation with the readers - from the uncensored opinions and anecdotes to the non-linear storytelling - so it wound up being a great match with the audiobook format. The non-linear storytelling wound up being both a pro and a con for me because, while I understand the choice to break the story up into sections the way she did, I had a little trouble fitting all the puzzle pieces of the conversation together in my head, but I think that speaks less about her writing than it does about me.

The section where she spoke about how adulthood comes with reaching the point where you look at your parents and can finally see them as people going through their own problems instead of tyrants out to make your life miserable is something I related to quite a bit, and I am glad that she was able to reach that moment of understanding with her mom after everything.

Overall, the stories and reflections shared in this memoir were interesting and the gimmick of ending each chapter with Sorry and Not Sorry lists is really sweet, but there are topics that are discussed with less sensitivity than should be called for. It would seem that the unfortunate implications she makes while doing so are due to clumsy wording more than intentional malice, but the thoughts still hang there.

In the end, this is a book she wrote to reclaim and reconcile her life story in a way that would hopefully reach the people who needed to hear it so that they would know they're not alone in their experiences, and that's pretty great.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Medical trauma, and Abortion

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Ableism, Animal death, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, and Pregnancy

She makes some unfortunate implications about sex - mainly that people need to have sex in order to have a real relationship and anyone who doesn't want to have sex won't be able to have a successful marriage - but I didn't tag acephobia because it seems like she was intending to only address people who feel liberated by sex even if that was not how she worded it.

emmaturley_x's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

4.5

Listened to on audiobook and was haunting to hear Naya narrate her life after her death. Was very interesting and sad to hear about the struggles in her life. I didn't know much about her life but was nice to hear her perspective on life as a celebrity behind the scenes.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Medical trauma

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Grief