Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer

35 reviews

lauren97224's review

challenging reflective

4.75

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Moderate: Suicide

emilyseebold's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

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Moderate: Genocide, Grief, Antisemitism, War, Suicide, Animal cruelty, and Mental illness

emily_pns's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

Essential. Never before have a read a more literary and poetic non-fiction climate change book. The author beautiful wove examples from his own life into those from history and the collective life of humans, to offer a frank view of our role as individuals in the future of our planet.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

seedreads's review

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

As far as book about vegetarianism/veganism go, this one is very mild. And by that I don't mean bland or lacking. But a book that might inspire people to consider eating less animal products without the guilt tripping that usually prevails in other books. Also, the way Jonathan talk about the climate crisis is spectacular. And by that I mean: he makes us care. He makes us see. Very nice book that I will suggest to everyone around me.

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Graphic: Antisemitism, Death of parent, and Suicide

charlottemmeline's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Graphic: Suicide, War, Genocide, Antisemitism, and Self harm

thebearlinwall's review

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

2.5

Not sure if I didn't like it because of the audiobook  or the writing, or that I'm not the intended audience but I found it condescending, sanctimonious, and generally not a helpful perspective 

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Graphic: Violence, Murder, Genocide, War, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Antisemitism

rebekahatkinson's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Moderate: Suicide, War, Genocide, and Death

texassizedreads's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

While I appreciated and agreed with the overall message of the book and what he was trying to inspire in the reader, there were several times where he made some scientifically innacurate statements. Not even about climate statistics but basic things like displacement theory. I don’t think that makes his argument any less important, but as someone with a scientific background it certainly bothered me. I could also see people using the incorrect statements as a reason to discredit the book as a whole, so I wish he would edit those things and make a new edition. I also didn’t appreciate the several instances of fatphobia. 

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Moderate: Suicide, Antisemitism, Fatphobia, and Body shaming

vicanarc_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

3.75

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Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: War, Death, and Antisemitism

amelie09's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective

5.0

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Graphic: Suicide