minooboh's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Medical content, and Terminal illness
Minor: Cancer
applesodaperson's review against another edition
dark
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Spoiler
The ending had me staring at the wall in shock.Read from the Provo library.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical content
Moderate: Child death
Minor: Blood and Suicide
caitlong's review
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Car accident, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Vomit, Child death, and Death
savvylit's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Emma Glass' writing is beautiful and hypnotic. Rest and Be Thankful is a one -sitting novella that provides an intensely upsetting look into the reality of pediatric end of life care. This narrative is so effective and believable that it was no surprise to find out that the story's narrator and Glass herself share a profession. As the novella progresses, the narrator sleeps less and less and is increasingly desperate for a full night's rest. Her insomnia and hallucinations ultimately lend the book's final pages a hellish nightmare quality.
Much like Mieko Kawakami's Heaven, Rest and Be Thankful is an excellent book that put me in a real life depressive funk. I loved it, I hated it, I wouldn't recommend it unless you like books that make you miserable.
Much like Mieko Kawakami's Heaven, Rest and Be Thankful is an excellent book that put me in a real life depressive funk. I loved it, I hated it, I wouldn't recommend it unless you like books that make you miserable.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Infertility, Chronic illness, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Child death
helenastinks's review
dark
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Blood, and Child death
jesskilford's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? N/A
2.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death
christylouise's review
challenging
dark
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.25
Medical professionals deserve better and this book really highlights that. However, I felt the plot was confused and buried under unnecessary metaphor at points.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death and Cancer
sorryviolet's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Chronic illness, Child death, Death, Cancer, Medical content, Mental illness, Vomit, Blood, and Terminal illness
ru_th's review
dark
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
This is how I live now. Navigating your stuff, careful not to knock things down, careful not to leave marks. Your hairs stick to my bare feet, there is dust in the corners of the room. This is how I live now, in this domestic disgust.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical content
Moderate: Child death and Death
Minor: Domestic abuse
emudds's review against another edition
challenging
dark
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
one thing about me ,,, if there's a controversial ending i'm somehow gonna love it. to be fair i kind of zoomed through this so the plot felt a bit ambiguous, but i really enjoyed her writing style and think the first person perspective lends itself well to sharing some of laura's intrusive thoughts as a gradual buildup to the end of the novel.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death