Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

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

21 reviews

januaryapril's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

A great book, such difficult subject matter but Roxane Gay does an amazing job at telling her story. I felt so connected to her and so aware the whole time I was reading. Made me very aware of my body and confronted many of the same thoughts I have about what it feels like to exist and move in this world. Also made me more aware of how others may feel. Why have we come to a point where we all have to be so obsessed with our bodies and how do we escape this?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Addiction, Body shaming, Vomit, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Rape, and Sexual violence

biblioghoul's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Racism, Medical content, Medical trauma, Injury/injury detail, and Homophobia

redrosemoth's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Vomit, Eating disorder, Medical content, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Sexism, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Biphobia

Graphic description of the rape of a child and the emotional impact of that throughout life, eating disorders, and an injury.

careinthelibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

Roxane Gay is such a masterful writer that I felt in good hands reading about sensitive topics. I'm glad I read this though it was difficult to find my footing sometimes in all the dark and troubling details. It's candid, sad, angering, challenging at once. Yet it was compelling and clever. It's my second Roxane Gay and I will surely read more in the future. Her perspective and wit are great. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Vomit, Dysphoria, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Chronic illness, Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Ableism, Emotional abuse, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Injury/injury detail

susysimmonds's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

zombiezami's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

Minor: Xenophobia

toadstoolsnshit's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

This is a very good book. Please check the trigger warnings before reading it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Fatphobia, Rape, Medical trauma, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Body shaming, and Bullying

kshertz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense

3.5

It’s a really hard book for me as I know it’s not really a book meant for me. It is an important read for me to understand and combat my own fat phobia. I also have to combat books that are a about someone processing their life and still being in the middle of processing it without any kind of aha moment or this kind of memoir that is so brutally honest and vulnerable and in the gray area. I almost feel like I’m not mature enough or far enough in my journey to totally get this memoir and I felt this way when I read it a few years ago. I hope to keep reading it every few years to see if this changes for me. I’m the meantime, she’s an incredibly talented author and human on another playing field with her writing and I appreciate how she challenges me. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Toxic relationship, Dysphoria, Ableism, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Eating disorder, Bullying, Body shaming, Rape, Sexual violence, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Injury/injury detail, and Emotional abuse

mandi4886's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Classism, Cursing, Biphobia, and Ableism

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

samarakroeger's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

I read this in one sitting. simply phenomenal 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Rape, Medical trauma, and Sexual violence