Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

20 reviews

readingpicnic's review against another edition

3.0

The Amazon history chapter broke me and had me crying in the bathroom. Ocean’s narration is excellent as always, although a lot of the poetry just didn’t hook me like I expected it to. 
My favorite lines: “Do you know how many hours I’ve wasted watching straight boys play video games? Enough.” Highly relatable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Violence, Death of parent, and War

kain47's review

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

softgalaxy's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Beautiful poetry. Just beautiful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Hate crime, Homophobia, Violence, Xenophobia, and War

danajoy's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gore, Homophobia, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Pedophilia, Forced institutionalization, and Antisemitism

issyd23's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense slow-paced

4.0

Beautiful, moving, heartbreaking: ‘Time is a motherfucker’. 

Highlights include: Amazon History of a Former Nail Salon Worker. 

‘In my language, the one I recall now only by closing my eyes, the word for love is Yêu.

And the word for weakness is Yếu.’ 4⏳

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Homophobia, Racism, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, War, and Classism

soswiin's review

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

2.5

still was just reading words on a page but had to stop and think about "because everyone knows yellow pain, pressed into american letters, turns into gold."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Violence, and War

ericispublius's review

dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, and War

bashsbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

The hype around Ocean Vuong's poetry is well-earned. I recommend reading these poems aloud.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Racism, Suicide, Violence, and Xenophobia

Minor: Car accident

fengxin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, Car accident, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Animal death