Reviews tagging 'Cannibalism'

The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Edith Eva Eger

5 reviews

chickaboogawah's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Deportation, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, War, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Sexual violence, Death, Death of parent, Violence, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Confinement, Pregnancy, Racism, Genocide, and Rape

blue_reader's review against another edition

Child brides are just... ew.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism and Death of parent

Moderate: Body horror and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Child death, Suicidal thoughts, and Cannibalism

pixiebix's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Oh my goodness. 

This is absolutely, undeniably a book for everybody who has ever suffered—and so everybody on this earth—to read. 

The Choice is so much more than a memoir of an Auschwitz survivor. This is a diary of the light that can be found in darkness; of trauma, reconciliation of trauma, and rebirth; of the forgiveness of your torturers (whether they be the SS soldiers of Nazi Germany’s concentration camp, your childhood abuser, or the friend who didn’t invite you to a meal with your group); of the resilience, self-respect, and strength that comprise forgiveness; of the reality of the darkness of trauma, and the fact that only you can liberate yourself from that very mental cage; of the power of choice; of the sacredness of the present. 

This is truly the most transformative non-fiction I have ever read. I hope this book finds itself in many more hands than it already has. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, War, Death of parent, and Kidnapping

Minor: Excrement, Cannibalism, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, and Suicide

amberinbookland's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Cancer, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, War, and Xenophobia

emikate's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I chose this book as I was interested in learning more about people's experiences in concentration camps and in moments of deep distress. The cover of the edition I read had "Even in hell hope can flower". When I chose it I like I had lost hope so to read about the perspective of an individual who went through so much horror and heartbreak and still had hope was inviting. I loved this book, I highlighted so much of it. Edith did not have an easy life but she learnt so much through her experiences and is now sharing them so others can learn and heal through their own. I didn't realise this was just the book I needed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Grief, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Religious bigotry, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Rape, Cannibalism, and Blood

Minor: Excrement