Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Bluets by Maggie Nelson

19 reviews

rotefrida's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This is a necessary beauty. One of my favourites.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief

alyssapusateri's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Cursing

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Alcohol, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Grief, Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Animal death

stephen_reads's review against another edition

fast-paced

2.0

Unpleasantly vulgar, unexpectedly racist, and randomly (suddenly) ableist.

Why has everyone been recommending this book as the pinnacle of creative non-fiction?

It even reminded me that I could be reading a much better book that aimed to accomplish a similar goal  (Derek Jarman’s ‘Chroma’).

Not a 1 star simply because the language was gripping enough to keep me reading, but otherwise this was such a miss. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Suicide, Medical trauma, and Grief

Minor: Ableism

readingwithgoose's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Sexual content, and Grief

Moderate: Alcohol

mads_jpg's review

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

1.25

It's ironic that Nelson spends so much of this book debating whether putting something in writing robs it of its essence, since I thought I'd love reading about blue but I actually really disliked this book. Maybe it was her frequent insistence on referring to sex as "fucking". Idk maybe this is just my asexuality showing but I find it so annoying when writers talk about their "lovers" *gag*. There were some lines that I did like but overall it just wasn't what I thought this book would be, I guess.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Drug use, Grief, Sexual content, Animal death, Alcohol, and Cursing

siebensommer's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

75. Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.

a lot to ponder
but i struggled w feeling detachment from the depth of feelings in this one

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Alcohol, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

stuffinmybrainhole's review

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Grief, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

bi_n_large's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Chronic illness, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Alcohol, Mental illness, and Grief

kers_tin's review against another edition

reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Grief, and Chronic illness

Minor: Suicide and Ableism

penofpossibilities's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

“but I can say this: in watching her, sitting with her, helping her, weeping with her, touching her, and talking with her, I have seen the bright pith of her soul. I cannot tell you what it looks like, but I can say that I have seen it."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Mental illness, Animal death, Sexual content, and Misogyny

Moderate: Suicide and Grief

Minor: Ableism