Reviews tagging 'Grief'

You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith

8 reviews

leweylibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

4.25

Okay so I picked this up having a completely wrong idea of what it was 😂🙃 Listen, I see the name Maggie Smith and do not think of a poet lol

BUT I was pleasantly surprised, largely because the author IS a poet--they write the most beautiful memoirs I swear. This one centered on the author's divorce from her husband which certainly isn't a groundbreaking topic, but she writes about it in a very unique way. Some of the poetic devices did wear on me a bit (the whole "I have a friend who says every book begins with an answerable question. Mine is..." thing got obnoxious fast). My last gripe is a personal one because I don't love hearing so much about pregnancy and kids. Those things in a book would normally warrant a much lower rating from me, but the writing really was gorgeous, and I feel like there was still a lot I took away and connected with, like about relationships and their ebs, flows, and endings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Miscarriage, and Toxic relationship

mmartinko11's review

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Miscarriage, and Infidelity

caseythereader's review

challenging emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Grief, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Abandonment, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Pregnancy

faduma's review against another edition

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage, Gaslighting, Grief, Misogyny, and Emotional abuse

kcarney86's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Grief, Infidelity, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Mental illness, Gaslighting, Misogyny, and Miscarriage

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Infertility, Cursing, and Pregnancy

aliciavalenski's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Infertility, Miscarriage, Grief, and Infidelity

nrogers_1030's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

Absolutely beautiful ❤️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Miscarriage

Moderate: Pregnancy and Infidelity

Minor: Toxic relationship

amandalorianxo's review

reflective sad slow-paced

I received this arc via a Goodreads win. I am not rating this because I feel that it’s not appropriate at this time for me to rate someone’s actual life that they wrote down for us to consume. Yet at the same time, Maggie Smith at times kept telling us that there were moments & scenes where she was not going to release or say what happened in her private moments. I understand that and I feel like everyone else would too so why even mention it ? I am also not a mom nor have I ever been married so I think that this memoir would be better suited towards someone who either has been through the long divorce process or is / was raising young children. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment and Grief