Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

26 reviews

sharleight's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Sexual assault, and Vomit

Moderate: Grief and Medical trauma

jettaparadis's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Roxanne Gay time and time again is a breathtaking writer 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Ableism, Emotional abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

clarabooksit's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Grief

Moderate: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Classism

laurenkimoto's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

Some memoirs just feel like info dumps about the author but this, Roxane Gay was able to weave a thread throughout that continued to tie together the whole memoir. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Lesbophobia, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

maggieparedesauthor's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

readandfindout's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

Style/writing: 5 stars
Themes: 4.5 stars
Perspective: 4 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Racism and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Biphobia

kathshiroma's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Racism

zombiezami's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Classism

Minor: Xenophobia

isaarusilor's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Vomit

mandi4886's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Biphobia, Cursing, and Classism

Minor: Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, Abortion, and Lesbophobia