Reviews tagging 'Injury/injury detail'

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, by Roxane Gay

13 reviews

siobhanward's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

 I've never read anything by Roxane Gay before, but I see her reviews on a lot of books I've been reading recently and found myself using them as a gauge as to whether I might like a book. Gay is as good at picking books as she is at writing them apparently. This was a heavy, hard read but really good. Some parts were repetitive, beyond it being a stylistic choice it felt, but I understand the impact the repetition had at times.

This is a really heavy book - it's worth checking out other reviews and trigger warnings before jumping in because there were definitely times that I had to put it down for a bit before continuing. Still a great read and I look forward to reading more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Vomit, Sexual assault, Rape, Racism, Medical content, Fatphobia, and Injury/injury detail

biblioghoul's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Sexual violence, Fatphobia, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Racism, Medical content, Medical trauma, Injury/injury detail, and Homophobia

careinthelibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Sexual violence, Vomit, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Dysphoria, Fatphobia, Addiction, Ableism, Emotional abuse, and Rape

Moderate: Injury/injury detail

chris_reads's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Ableism, Body shaming, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Medical content and Vomit

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Injury/injury detail, Racism, and Sexual harassment

j_m_alexander's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

We all carry scars and some are brave enough to bare them to the world. 

This is one of those memoirs that I don't think anyone can say they particularly "enjoyed", but anyone with an ounce of humanity and empathy should be able to relate to, appreciate, and be thankful for it. 

At once painfully detailed and sparsely written. This is an author telling their truth (of her body), exploring their feelings about those truths (of her body), their parts in creating their own pain (regarding her body), being honest about those that created the wounds that will never fully heal and those that insist on rubbing salt in those wounds, as well as a society that dehumanizes, disgenders, and disrespects the bearer of these wounds (because of their views of her body). I have heard some characterize this book and the author as self-pitying or all-blaming, but I wonder whether they actually read the book (or lived a life). Gay does share her sadness, self-loathing, and anger - who can find fault in that? Who can't relate at least in some way to it? It's honest. It's relieving in some ways to hear so much hard truth revealed. It's simple (or it's extremely complicated). Roxane Gay does not ask for your pity in these pages. She explains what she's been through, her experiences, takes blame for what's hers to take and places blame on those that it be should placed on. If anything Roxane Gay is extremely self-critical, but she also demonstrates the characteristics of a sensitive, loving, intelligent mind, an admirable resilience, and wry sense of humor even when things seem bleak. We all hunger, we all strive to satisfy desires, we all adapt and develop defenses - this is so much of what it is to be human. This book is powerful and I am thankful for it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Rape, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Injury/injury detail, and Sexual violence

zombiezami's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Body shaming, Medical trauma, Vomit, Rape, Fatphobia, Medical content, Injury/injury detail, Sexual violence, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Mental illness, and Sexism

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Grief, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Racism, Gaslighting, Classism, Infidelity, and Chronic illness

Minor: Xenophobia

kshertz's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense

3.5

It’s a really hard book for me as I know it’s not really a book meant for me. It is an important read for me to understand and combat my own fat phobia. I also have to combat books that are a about someone processing their life and still being in the middle of processing it without any kind of aha moment or this kind of memoir that is so brutally honest and vulnerable and in the gray area. I almost feel like I’m not mature enough or far enough in my journey to totally get this memoir and I felt this way when I read it a few years ago. I hope to keep reading it every few years to see if this changes for me. I’m the meantime, she’s an incredibly talented author and human on another playing field with her writing and I appreciate how she challenges me. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Toxic relationship, Dysphoria, Ableism, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Eating disorder, Bullying, Body shaming, Rape, Sexual violence, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Injury/injury detail, and Emotional abuse

mandi4886's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Rape, Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Injury/injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Classism, Cursing, Biphobia, and Ableism

Minor: Abortion, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, Lesbophobia, Infidelity, Homophobia, and Hate crime

my_forest_library's review

challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Eating disorder, Injury/injury detail, Body shaming, and Fatphobia

foreverinastory's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

Brutally honest, this memoir scraped both me and Roxane to the bone.

CWs: Rape, sexual assault, sexual violence, trauma, eating disorder, vomit, fatphobia, body shaming, racism, emotional abuse, toxic relationship. Moderate: Medical content, medical trauma, medical fatphobia, domestic abuse, sexual content, misogyny, sexism, injury/injury detail, mental illness, self harm, ableism, suicidal thoughts. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Eating disorder, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Racism, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Rape, Sexual assault, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Medical trauma, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Medical content, Misogyny, Sexism, Injury/injury detail, Self harm, Ableism, and Suicidal thoughts