Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

22 reviews

taroroot's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

loved the descriptions of food and how that reminded her of her mother

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Drug use, Blood, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Emotional abuse

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

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

Minor: Bullying, Racism, and Abortion

gabriella_'s review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

I am in awe of this book. I cried many times reading it.

A lot of this book I personally resonated with. While I am not Korean, the mother-daughter bonding, themes of feeling disconnected from culture, grief, and transcending love of food hit very hard. Zauner finds a way to bring a personal story up and close to the reader. She has a way with words.

I can’t express how grateful I am to read this book. It feels like a warm hug. I hope anyone who has struggled with grief, especially those who mourn a mom or motherly figure, walk away from this book with even a shred of comfort. There is so much I want to say, so much thanks I want to pay the author for being as vulnerable as she was. And so much I want to thank her for, for expressing how painful her journey has been.

Some lines of this book really stuck with me, and I’ll end this review with one that made me audibly sob.

When one person collapses, the other instinctively shoulders their weight.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Cursing

hanbuckley19's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

 Beautiful beautiful beautiful 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

Minor: Blood and Car accident

kcelena's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Racism, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Abortion

handful_of_frogs's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Car accident, Abortion, and Alcohol

Minor: Racism

skylaturner's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Addiction and Car accident

bookswithgeorgia's review against another edition

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, and Death of parent

alyx's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Terminal illness, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Car accident, and Alcohol

Minor: Emotional abuse, Racism, Car accident, and Abortion

smaber23's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This book will make you call your mother more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cursing, Medical content, and Car accident

Minor: Animal death, Racism, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Abortion, and Abandonment