Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

14 reviews

scmiller's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cancer, Death of parent, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Body horror, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Vomit

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Abortion, Bullying, Car accident, Drug use, Racism, Addiction, Drug abuse, Excrement, Fatphobia, and Mental illness

Minor: Infidelity and Religious bigotry

aformeracceleratedreader's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I really enjoyed and related to this. I'm also mixed Asian with an Asian immigrant mother so the love/relationship in the book is very similar to my own with my mom. My mom also told my sisters and me a very big secret/life event that shook us and reminded us that we dont know our mom like we think we do like the author's mom telling the author her secret. I also strongly related with the discussion of identity and the struggles of not being seen as enough. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Terminal illness, Grief, Cancer, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Racism, and Alcohol

eatingbrains's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

2.5

I don't even really know what to say, but I will try to put something about the reading experience into words.

It was alright.  I teared up a few times.  The descriptions of food were verbose and evocative, sometimes excessively so.  I love Maangchi.

This is a story of grief and mourning, of finding your identity and how it changes as you grow, relationships and connections.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Alcohol, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Death, Excrement, and Fatphobia

Minor: Abortion, Body shaming, Drug use, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Car accident, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Eating disorder, Religious bigotry, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, and Sexism

kalemottison's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast weaves her heartbreaking tale of the loss of her mother into formation. She had me captured by her story, of her fears and her hopes, her losses and her gains, her failures and her successes on the backdrop of something so awful. She is a brilliant writer, doing her best to find some ease in her pain and I am blown away. Her finding her heritage through food is heartwarming. I just want to thank her for putting her story into words like this, I cannot imagine how hard it must have been. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Cancer, Medical content, Mental illness, Grief, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Blood, Chronic illness, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Mental illness

Minor: Abortion, Racism, and Bullying

nialiversuch's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Addiction, Abortion, Cursing, Car accident, Bullying, Xenophobia, and Vomit

honeyvoiced's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

Minor: Bullying

sundayray's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Mental illness, Abortion, Alcoholism, Bullying, and Car accident

ekmook's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Medical content, Medical trauma, Racism, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Addiction, Excrement, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Bullying, Drug abuse, Drug use, Abortion, and Alcohol

kingwow's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

Spoiler

easily the saddest book I've read in a while. However, its so inspiring in how she reconnects to her korean roots and that connection she has with her mother. Brutally honest.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Grief, Medical content, Abortion, Alcoholism, Cancer, Bullying, Alcohol, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Vomit

supernova_reader's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Death

Moderate: Xenophobia and Bullying