Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller

29 reviews

val_so_'s review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Xenophobia, Murder, Ableism, Suicide attempt, Hate crime, Sexism, Misogyny, Death, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Homophobia

Moderate: Confinement, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Classism, Cultural appropriation, and Xenophobia

brttbwrs's review

challenging hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I would give this 100 stars if I could. Beautifully written, and a hopefulness that carries gravity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Child death, Ableism, Rape, Pregnancy, Murder, Grief, Forced institutionalization, Suicidal thoughts, and Colonisation

maddiearthur's review

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Colonisation, Infertility, and Ableism

Moderate: Child death and Biphobia

Minor: Self harm

mirto's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

If I could give this 6 stars, I would. Brilliant book. I would even say Lulu Miller created a whole new genre. Memoir, biography, essay, nature book, history book, sociology, psychology, murder mystery, whatever, you name it. Made me feel so many things, all at once. I learnt a lot, from science to giving myself the life I want. Why Fish Don't Exist will stay with me forever.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Ableism, Gaslighting, Infertility, Classism, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, and Hate crime

Moderate: Grief, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Self harm, Sexual assault, War, Death, Emotional abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Murder, Infertility, Infidelity, and Rape

aspenpastore's review

adventurous dark funny informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

Incredible 5 star book! just gonna leave those here and filling my favorite quotes in a few. The book version of repeatedly getting the rug pulled out from under me. go read it... it's a quick one!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Medical trauma, Child abuse, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual violence

thehutonfowlslegs's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

things found in this book:
• fish
• actually, fish don’t exist, so no fish
• icthyology and taxonomy 
• existentialism 
• the life of david starr jordan 
• the life of lulu miller
• murder 
• love
• loss 
• darwinism 
• eugenics 
• attempts to bring order to an ever-chaotic world 
• the questioning of everything you think you know
• a single footnote 
• a sound clip of the author teaching her child how to say “fish” (provided your reading medium is the audiobook) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Ableism, and Child death

Moderate: Murder and Racism

antoniaodernein's review

dark informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Self harm, Death, Child death, Violence, Emotional abuse, and Confinement

katconig's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

An absolute delight of a book that finds hope in the most unexpected ways. It's the first thing to bring me a bit of hope in a long time and I desperately needed it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Child death

apestforwrens's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Mental illness, Ableism, Child death, and Murder

Eugenics

bi_n_large's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Racism, Ableism, Forced institutionalization, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Murder, Death, Rape, Physical abuse, Infidelity, and Child death