Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

27 reviews

jebecky's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Vomit, Grief, and Abandonment

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Ableism and Medical content

fionamclary's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I love Becky Chambers and her sentence-long titles

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Confinement

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, and Suicide attempt

the_reading_wren's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This book perfectly fulfilled the form of a novella; it’s punchy and got me thinking. I also like the inclusion of the bonus content in this edition, which gives more context about Chambers’ thinking behind the book and how she was able to weave so much science so well into the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Medical content, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Cancer, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, War, and Injury/Injury detail

eni_iilorak's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful informative inspiring reflective

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Abandonment

Moderate: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, and Grief

nathaeo's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

Beautiful language, beautiful descriptions and thought provoking. Several times I got that pleasant tingling feeling in my chest because of how immersed I got. The way the characters interact with the worlds and each other felt so calming and... nice. And when the crew goes through hardships, I felt that too.

I loved how the different planets served as different stages in the storytelling and their journey. My only problem with the book was how short it was. I wanted to melt into it for as long as I could.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Animal cruelty, Death, Medical content, Grief, and Suicide attempt

babudarabu's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Confinement, Cursing, Medical content, Abandonment, and Dysphoria

serena_hien's review against another edition

challenging funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Vomit, and Medical content

_david_'s review against another edition

adventurous inspiring fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

This book is exactly the type of story and focus I want from a sci-fi space exploration book. 

The book and its descriptions of their discoveries sparked a magical feeling in me that I haven't  felt since I was a child: Of looking up to the sky and wondering what's out there.

The focus is on the characters and their mindset. It shows the curiosity of scientists and how different a stressful situation can influence people. I loved the diversity of planets and what was on them. A planet doesn't have to be an oasis bursting with flora and fauna to be mesmerizing.  

I loved the mindset of the crew, that they were observers, not colonizers. I wish OCA was real. I don't think there's a book with a more fitting title than this one.  

The story felt a lot longer than it was, in a good way. It felt very full without feeling rushed or too fast paced. There was a moment just before the ending that I can imagine to be dull to someone without a (bio)chemistry background, but the narrator acknowledges that and it makes use of its dullness to make the ending even stronger. I really liked the ending. 

The reason that I give this book 4 stars instead of 5 is that the characters did not all feel feel fully rounded. The quirks and parts of the personalities which were described were strong and interesting. I think what I would've liked to see was a little less predictability in the three side-characters personalities.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

adventurous reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Confinement

Moderate: Gun violence, Medical content, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Body horror, Death, Gore, Sexual content, War, and Injury/Injury detail

cookiecat73's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

Loved this!! I had a couple of nitpicks, but overall I thought it was great, the main thing I want to be different is that I would have liked it to have been longer, it didn't even need to have extra plot thrown in, I just liked reading about these characters and this world

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Gun violence, and Medical content

Moderate: Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

Minor: Death, Sexual content, Blood, Excrement, Death of parent, Alcohol, Dysphoria, and War