Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Not My Father's Son: A Memoir by Alan Cumming

32 reviews

miacasey16's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Death

Minor: Death of parent

elg1105's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, and Death of parent

Minor: Eating disorder, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Grief

evawhite's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

maya_moksha's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

Alan Cumming’s story is powerful, intriguing, and well formatted. 

However, it was hard to tackle in detail,  many of the topics disclosed in the content warnings 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

biscuitrat's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Physical abuse

Moderate: War

Minor: Death of parent

maddy4prezident's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

This book was a profound recollection of childhood trauma, and an inspiring story of how Alan Cumming and his family grew past—and healed from—the abuse experienced at the hands of his father. Alan Cumming shares his family's story with a very emotionally intelligent and trauma-informed perspective, and he shows the reverberations of childhood abuse into adulthood. The parallels that he draws between his life and his grandfather's life are also exceptional, and his "present day" storyline offers the perfect framework with which to share his past. Overall, I would absolutely recommend this book to others.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, and Alcohol

mollymdull's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, and War

Moderate: Cancer, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicide, and Car accident

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

bookedbymadeline's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

I listened to a podcast interview with Cumming where he talked briefly about his career and life which made me want to learn more about him, and listen to his voice more.

Cumming had a very difficult childhood which made this a heartbreaking and tragic read at times. This book is about his journey to healing and learning about his family’s history. Listening to the audio version was like sitting and catching up with a friend you haven’t seen in awhile 🩷 Also as I kind of touched on, his accent is lovely to listen to!

A few of his stories or the way he talked about his experiences as an actor made me laugh, making for a not completely emotional/dark read. I loooved his passion for Eurovision and could very much relate (he put into words exactly how I think of the event). Overall I’d highly recommend if you enjoy celebrity memoirs or stories of healing!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Bullying, Mental illness, and Violence

Minor: Cancer, Gun violence, and Death of parent

samwalburn's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Grief

popsicleplease's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Mental illness and Suicidal thoughts