Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper

21 reviews

vavocado's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Medical trauma

Moderate: Domestic abuse

effortlesslybookishbre_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Death, Medical content, and Mental illness

pisces1_1318's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Dr. Michele Harper memoir was so touching and interesting. Her storytelling is unlike any memoirs I have ever read. I often forgot that this was a true story. We need more Dr. Harper's in medicine. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual assault, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Death, Body horror, and Blood

autumnflorence's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Drug use, Death, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Physical abuse

d0505's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, and Gun violence

Moderate: Racism, Rape, Child abuse, Terminal illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

katiejohns's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child abuse, Medical content, Cancer, and Medical trauma

avialia's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

3.75

Found it boring at times

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Death, Child death, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

sarahlizbooks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Addiction, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

readbycarina's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Grief, Medical content, Rape, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, and Racism

Moderate: Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, and Addiction

blackcatkai's review

informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

CW: death (child & adult), child abuse, ableism, fatphobic & trans-exclusionary vibes (as is common when dealing with the medical/health field as a whole, apparently), sexual assault 

overall i enjoyed reading about Dr Harper & her beginning years in the medical field. mostly the last 1/3rd kind of got under my skin, but that may be a preference thing. a lot of good insight here, though the author is big into forgiveness to grow while I am a firm proponent of you don't owe anyone anything, not even forgiveness. 

you can absolutely grow & flourish without needing to forgive someone who hurt you. but that's just me and that's ok! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, Medical content, Child abuse, Child death, Mental illness, Chronic illness, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Racism, Rape, Terminal illness, Violence, Sexism, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Ableism, Drug abuse, Addiction, Cancer, Chronic illness, Gun violence, Police brutality, Abortion, Fatphobia, Grief, and Drug use