Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

11 reviews

sea_tea_books's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense

So important to hear her testimony. Much love for Britney from a fellow Survivor-To-Thriver. 

I listened to the audiobook and Michelle Williams did not disappoint.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Addiction, Bullying, Alcohol, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Infidelity, Grief, Fatphobia, Body shaming, and Abortion

Minor: Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Miscarriage

readingwithmeredith's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

3.5

Informative but poorly written. Felt lost at times as someone who went in knowing nothing about her story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Confinement, Medical content, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, Abortion, Emotional abuse, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Cursing, Infidelity, and Sexual content

jessspeake's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Alcoholism, Drug use, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Abortion and Body shaming

david_slack110507's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.75

It feels weird to give this a rating considering that this is actually based off of Britney's life in the same way that it was weird to give a rating to I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, but I feel like while this memoir from one of pop's most influential figures did have the insight that was promised, it wasn't the best structured which is what brought it down for me. 

Before reading this, I had previously known very little about Britney's life other than being one of the most successful artists in the past few decades as well as being in an abusive conservatorship that was eventually exposed to the mass media through the #FreeBritney movement (which Britney acknowledges in this book as being one of the things that kept her going in the fight for full control over her life) so this memoir was very insightful into the tumultuous life of Spears and how it all started from a very young age. Ranging from her family life being unsafe and toxic to using music, dancing, and acting to escape that home life only for those escapes to be poisoned with issues too. 

The early and later years in Spears' music career and spotlight in the media really showed how cruel the media can be to those in the spotlight and how this can take various methods from asking deeply personal questions, to sexualising Britney, to harassing her when she was obviously not in the mental space and state to actually deal with everything and much more. Memoirs in particular are very good at exposing how much the media got away with (and continues to do so in some instances) in their treatment of celebrities, particularly women and other minorities, in the earlier years of modern media and I hope that like many other memoirs that spotlight and criticise these issues, Britney's story will help lessen the likelihood for more stories like hers for future stars. 

My main issue with this memoir is how it was structured, some parts felt fully explained and in detail while others were less detailed and so there was often a sporadic movement between years that threw me off slightly and made me a little confused as to when a certain event was happening or what family member Spears was referring to due to having only mentioned them at the beginning of the book or a brief description in the midst of a big and important event in her life. 

Overall, I'm so glad that Britney is free of her conservatorship and can actually live her life rather than having her life dictated for her like how it was for so long and I wish her all the best when it comes to rebuilding herself slowly from the insurmountable damage caused by her family's control over her. This was such an important story to tell and one that deserved to be told and so I'm glad that Britney finally felt ready to share her story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Sexism, Abortion, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Body shaming, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Confinement, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Bullying

Minor: Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Drug use, Addiction, and Adult/minor relationship

dianaschmidty's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

5.0

#FreeBritney 
This poor girl. After reading this, I hate parts of our legal system even more than I already did!

Also, if you love pop culture, especially the music industry in the early 2000s, you’ll be as fascinated by the first half of the book as I was!

This book is just proof that most men suck. Especially rich ones.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Mental illness, Abortion, Body shaming, Toxic friendship, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Bullying, Confinement, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, and Torture

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, Medical trauma, Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Medical content

plumpeony's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Miscarriage, Abortion, and Mental illness

Minor: Eating disorder, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Drug use, and Pregnancy

miranda_is_reading's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad fast-paced

3.75

I’ve been a Britney fan since I was a child. It was easy to remember all the times she was referencing throughout the book. But, it was sad to realize how even though she was thriving to the outside world, she was hurting so much inside and being mistreated by so many adults and family members in her life. This was a good book. I would recommend it to all Britney fans. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Addiction, Alcohol, Mental illness, Abortion, Forced institutionalization, and Grief

Minor: Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, Eating disorder, Medical content, Miscarriage, Death, Drug use, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Pregnancy

imstephtacular's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Alcoholism, Forced institutionalization, Alcohol, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Abandonment, Pregnancy, Cursing, Grief, Infidelity, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Mental illness

Minor: Sexual harassment, Miscarriage, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Infertility, Fatphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Car accident

jaz_gets_literary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I started this at the gym this morning and just finished it a few hours later. I could stop listening. I am feeling so many emotions. Mostly anger. So many people failed her. Her father took her total body autonomy away from her and everyone around her just went along with it. There were lots of horrible things that happened to her before that but that one was the worst to me. I don’t understand how no one saw that it wasn’t right and agreed to it. I’m going to have to sit with this one for a while but I truly hope that she finds peace and happiness. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Bullying, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Abortion, Alcoholism, Body shaming, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Child death, Miscarriage, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide

lindsayerin's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Abortion, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Confinement

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism