Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

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

27 reviews

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

thebankofbooks's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Medical trauma

philosopiscis's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Sexual harassment

shewantsthediction's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

I now see why people say Roxane Gay is such a great writer. Honestly I should've read this book first, because I wasn't super impressed by the meandering Bad Feminist. In this shorter memoir format, however, she shines.

I do hope that since the writing of this book, she's engaged a little deeper with fat politics, because it seemed like her understanding/knowledge was very surface level and mostly garnered from personal experience. I was bothered by the way she referred to BMI as if it means anything, and expected her to call out that it's a racist, unscientific unit of "measurement," but she didn't.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Medical content

jessy_03's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

laurelj's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Gaslighting

lexi's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This was a very honest book, and I have a lot of admiration for what it must have taken to write this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Rape, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Mental illness, Misogyny, and Racism

Minor: Biphobia and Suicidal thoughts