Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death, by Maggie O'Farrell
34 reviews
alexhaydon's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Ableism, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Medical trauma, Chronic illness, Blood, Ableism, and Murder
gingertea_reads's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Miscarriage, Chronic illness, and Infertility
sirri_sivutiella's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Stalking, Death, and Chronic illness
Moderate: Blood
emilylikesbread's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, and Medical content
Moderate: Chronic illness, Pregnancy, Ableism, and Infertility
Minor: Murder, Violence, Miscarriage, Rape, and Pedophilia
massivepizzacrust's review against another edition
4.0
I'm not sure I really understand why the chapters were arranged the way they were. By the end of the book I didn't really have a sense that there was an overall arch to the book (past the connection between her childhood death experiences and her daughter's). I thought some of the stories brought more to the table than others - the stories centering on her pregnancies and her childhood were mostly beautiful, but the story with the mysterious man and the dog was confusing and weirdly half-confessional.
Reading about someone else's preoccupation with death was a relief to me. It's something that's been hard for me to deal with sometimes and this was a really different view on it. I don't think I'll be making any unprepared trips to remote countries any time soon though.
Graphic: Medical trauma, Ableism, Blood, Miscarriage, Violence, Bullying, Chronic illness, Medical content, and Infertility
Minor: Rape and Pedophilia
samcsmith's review against another edition
3.5
Moderate: Miscarriage, Medical content, Blood, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Chronic illness
Minor: Ableism, Infertility, Pedophilia, and Violence
sshabein's review against another edition
5.0
Some of her brushes with death involve medical treatment, and my jaw quite literally dropped at what people, especially medical professionals, said to her during those times. From her childhood hospitalization from encephalitis to her many miscarriages after a difficult first birth, you'll be ready to fight a couple nurses and doctors ON SIGHT. That said, there is also the very moving moment where one mysterious medical person, about whom she never found out any information, really supported her when she needed it most. If you're a person who has medical trauma of any sort, you may want to check in with yourself before reading.
Between this book and Hamnet being among my favorites this year, I'm ready to delve further into her back catalog. I've had an ARC of Instructions for a Heatwave sitting around an embarrassingly long time, and I will definitely, finally read it.
Graphic: Blood, Chronic illness, Grief, Miscarriage, Violence, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Medical trauma
icieri's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Medical trauma, Medical content, Miscarriage, Chronic illness, and Pregnancy
jodierose14's review
4.0
Graphic: Death and Chronic illness
laurenkimoto's review against another edition
3.5
Parts of this book are written in first person and parts are written in third person and the impact that has on the tone and the emotions is masterful used
Graphic: Abortion, Blood, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Excrement, Infertility, Grief, Body horror, Car accident, Death, Miscarriage, Chronic illness, Gaslighting, Gore, and Medical content