Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Motherhood by Sheila Heti

22 reviews

effievee's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Blood

Minor: Xenophobia, Abortion, Racism, Miscarriage, War, Infertility, and Mental illness

cleotheo's review against another edition

challenging inspiring reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I expected a book that discussed the decision of wether or not to have children. 
I didn't expect the way it did this -it gives different perspectives but it doesn't try to be objective- and that it discusses motherhood beyond that decision.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Abortion, Toxic friendship, Pregnancy, Medical content, and Death of parent

Moderate: Antisemitism, Mental illness, Misogyny, Infertility, Grief, Deportation, Death, Infidelity, and Genocide

Minor: War, Rape, Miscarriage, Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

chlo_po's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Mothers. Being one, having one, becoming one. It’s complicated and this book accesses that complexity in beautiful, hard and thoughtful ways. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Genocide, and Sexual content

readingbrb's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Abortion, and Pregnancy

at806's review

emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Abortion, Blood, Death, Medical content, Mental illness, and Pregnancy

emmagreenwood's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Grief, Toxic friendship, Abortion, and Sexual content

marywahlmeierbracciano's review against another edition

reflective

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I loved listening to Sheila Heti read this book.  I don’t think I would have liked it as much had I read it on the page.  Heti is certainly not for everyone, but if you like unconventionality in your books, give her work a try.  Motherhood is an autofictional rumination on the question of whether or not to have a child, and the book is largely guided by the actual flipping of three coins, inspired by the I Ching.  The three-coin method adds a reverent, mystical quality to the book, which itself reads like a conversational train of thought or a diary.  Heti also delves into family history and inheritance, in this case Jewish Hungarian.  There’s so much to ponder here.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Sexual violence and Abortion

clevermor's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

If you have mommy issues, you'll either love or hate this book. 
(And if you see yourself in the narrator's relationship with Myles, please break up with them im begging you.)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, and Sexual content

Minor: Homophobia

The narrator is pretty homophobic and has a fundamental misunderstanding of what gay and lesbian relationships are like. She is also pretty consumed by internalized misogyny and her toxic relationship

mkbuehen's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

0.5

She just whines the entire book. Like yeah, if child-bearing and child-rearing isn't a decision you're already set on, it is an important decision to figure out, but she barely talks about any of the actual ethical worries and just whines and talks about having spells of poor mental health and having sex with her husband (which is often written in a gross way). Not to mention the annoying cooty-catcher fortune-telling gimmick she says she follows throughout a majority of the book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

leefox's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Medical content, and Sexual content