Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

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

12 reviews

maggieparedesauthor's review

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Grief, Fatphobia, Toxic relationship, Racism, Rape, Homophobia, Dysphoria, Gaslighting, Medical content, Self harm, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Vomit

readandfindout's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

Style/writing: 5 stars
Themes: 4.5 stars
Perspective: 4 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Body shaming, Vomit, Rape, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Racism

Minor: Biphobia

kathshiroma's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Racism, and Bullying

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

isaarusilor's review

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Vomit, and Body shaming

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

thebankofbooks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Racism, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Addiction, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, and Physical abuse

philosopiscis's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Eating disorder

shewantsthediction's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

I now see why people say Roxane Gay is such a great writer. Honestly I should've read this book first, because I wasn't super impressed by the meandering Bad Feminist. In this shorter memoir format, however, she shines.

I do hope that since the writing of this book, she's engaged a little deeper with fat politics, because it seemed like her understanding/knowledge was very surface level and mostly garnered from personal experience. I was bothered by the way she referred to BMI as if it means anything, and expected her to call out that it's a racist, unscientific unit of "measurement," but she didn't.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

jessy_03's review

challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, Racism, Sexual violence, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Eating disorder, and Physical abuse