Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Your Own Kind of Girl: A Memoir by Clare Bowditch

7 reviews

tface's review against another edition

Very intense and explicitly details thoughts of suicide and death, including dark depressive thoughts. Very intense and too much  personally

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

curatoriallyyours's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

4.0

I cried actual big, wet tears reading the first few chapters of this book, reading the story of Clare’s childhood. But the over all tone of this book is hopeful and describes a path out of the wilderness to deep happiness. There were a couple of points where there was a bit of repetition (it could have done with a touch more editing to eliminate this) and there were also a couple of typos (I read a digital copy - the print version might be fine), which is why I didn’t give it a higher rating, but it was otherwise a compelling story told by a delightful human!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

ebba94's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Child death, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

katiiekhaos's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

jazin95's review

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

This was a fascinating read. Although I must admit, I didn't know who Clare Bowditch was before reading her memoir; I love an audiobook that is so casually read/performed by the author. 

Learning about this seemingly easygoing Aussie musician was very interesting. She is so open about her childhood trauma of losing her older sister; childhood fat-shaming leads to her anxiety and depression. 

The memoir was well written, and I loved listening to her as she told her story. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Eating disorder

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, and Terminal illness

lenin_lover_69's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death

bec459's review against another edition

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Eating disorder, and Toxic relationship