Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. by Samantha Irby

37 reviews

muffmacguff's review

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

Some laughs, some tears, more than a few lines I’ve been quoting since reading it. I really enjoyed the slow evolution of Irby’s ambivalence about cohabitation with her eventual wife. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

sglance9's review against another edition

funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Fatphobia, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death of parent, Body shaming, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Animal death

slintangel's review

challenging emotional funny reflective fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death of parent, and Child abuse

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

uranaishi's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Death of parent, Excrement, Physical abuse, Fatphobia, Pedophilia, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Alcohol, Body shaming, Bullying, Ableism, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Classism, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Medical content, Mental illness, Suicide, Terminal illness, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Drug use, Grief, Homophobia, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Dysphoria, Drug abuse, Racism, Body horror, Pregnancy, and Blood

notartgarfunkel's review against another edition

funny reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Animal death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, and Chronic illness

Minor: Infidelity, Infertility, Animal cruelty, and Homophobia

_bxllxe_'s review

funny lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

I love Samantha Irby. SHE JUST GETS ME. I feel like we are probably the same person. Even though I’ll never meet her in real life, I will go to my grave laughing out loud whenever I think of her essay, “Fuck it, bitch. Stay fat.”

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, and Cursing

Minor: Animal death, Blood, Addiction, and Alcoholism

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

funny lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

4.5

A very fun read that should be done with headphones in. Ms. Irby is such a fun writer, and I'll be reading more of her books in the future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Excrement, Chronic illness, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Animal death, Fatphobia, Racial slurs, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Infertility

Minor: Vomit and Animal cruelty

bookish_purrsuits's review against another edition

funny slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Ableism, Body shaming, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Infertility, Child abuse, Animal death, Death of parent, and Classism

instalovewithbooks's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted

I am not as much of a fan about this essay collection, as the last one especially since some of it just seemed a bit unhinged, which is probably what she was going for, and might just be a personality trait. Idk.
I will still read her books though, I liked this one enough to finish, so I will see what the next volume is about!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Animal death

zoiejanelle's review

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

4.0

fucking hilarious. i especially appreciated her essays on animals and working in animal welfare. sam has such a unique voice and her personification of Hellen Keller the cat and various other hypothetical inanimate objects had me gasping for air (with laughter). a great, quick, reflective and humorous read about relationships, identity, family, and adulthood. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol, Body shaming, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcoholism, Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide attempt