Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery

7 reviews

laneyreadz's review

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

I enjoyed this book a lot, but it did have some slow moments throughout. I found the chapters named after the octopuses to be the strongest and most interesting. I definitely recommend if you already love the animal and want to learn more about them! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Death

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

aspi8tionalpile's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

I would highly recommend the audiobook format. The author is a very engaging and enthusiastic storyteller, so just let go and enjoy. Her experiences with octopuses leave you envious and I became quite attached to these wondrous beings.    

 Other of her experiences like learning to scuba dive weren’t as engaging. She builds her case with respect to soul throughout the book while never overtly talking about it, then draws her conclusion on the matter at the very end. It would have been interesting to approach the topic earlier.

I did thoroughly enjoy the book. I lost sleep because I just couldn’t put it down. Sign of a good book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, Dementia, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

wad3mil3sgarru2's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Terminal illness, Animal death, Misogyny, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

bonsai_delores's review

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

A good book for learning descriptive narrative. Does an excellent job “humanizing” many types of ocean creatures. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Animal death

Moderate: Suicide, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, and Dementia

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate concern for neglect of a spouse. Would be nice to know how several weekends and Valentines Day at an octopus date were made up to her husband.

loryyyy's review

adventurous dark informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide, Animal death, and Suicide attempt

lilsneakybandit's review

informative inspiring reflective relaxing slow-paced

3.75

A lovely and informative book that really makes you think about the minds and personalities of both octopuses and humans. However, it was a bit slow for me. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide, Drug use, and Suicide attempt

mexigingerale's review against another edition

emotional informative fast-paced

3.0

Enjoyable enough, with a great start but then turns more into a memoir about her and her coworkers than an actual science books so that was disappointing. Certain parts made me feel Very uneasy about the way they were treating the octopuses, bordering on if not outright being animal cruelty, which the author just glossed over.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Moderate: Grief and Suicide

Minor: Suicide attempt