Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

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

30 reviews

noorii's review

inspiring reflective

5.0

a lesson in hubris indeed

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Ableism, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Infidelity and Rape

youngwessels's review

informative medium-paced

3.25

The chapters revolving around David Starr Jordan are a compelling look into a deeply troubled person’s experiences but the chapters revolving around Lulu Miller’s own life are just a sloggish look into a slightly less troubled person’s experiences.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Ableism, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, and Murder

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

toffishay's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I could not have guessed that I would be adding another 5-star reading at the tail end of the year. But each page of this book brought me new insight, new pain, new joy. And in another sense, it was nothing new. We are faced with our own lives and our natural world and we take what we can get. The writing is intense and thoughtful. It afforded me some additional perspective about the world around us and made me want to learn more about nature. And it made me cry!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Confinement, Racism, Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, and Child abuse

Moderate: Infidelity, Grief, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Death

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, War, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Rape, Toxic relationship, and Car accident

junefish's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Animal death, Infertility, Infidelity, Racism, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Rape, Death, and Alcoholism

Includes content about the history of eugenics and the personal experiences of people who were forcibly sterilised.

1414's review

adventurous emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Animal death and Rape

Minor: Car accident, Infertility, and Infidelity

cynthiareads's review

informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Infidelity and Suicide attempt

nawakhtha's review against another edition

informative inspiring medium-paced

3.75

A book about David Starr Jordan where the author researched him to find out his source of perseverance in the face of chaos. It starts off rather annoyingly as it was mainly discussing Jordan in a positive light and might seem to ignore the deeply concerning and hypocritical aspects of his legacy, but this all gets addressed in the second half of the book. The first half of the book also has the author taking a tone of scientific and atheistic snobbery at times (not really excessive, just to the point where I personally found it mildly annoying), but it mellows out as the book progresses which ends up painting a nice picture of how the journey of researching Jordan’s life has transformed the author. I expected to dislike this book quite a bit, but my feelings on that shifted the more I got into it which I think adds a lot to how I was able to feel the author’s transformation through her journey. It was also rather gripping and written smoothly enough that I was still able to enjoy it throughout. 
The illustrations in the beginning of every chapter are beautiful.

It does contain references to self harm, eugenics, and forced sterilization. I personally thought those topics were handled well by the author, but it’s worth mentioning in-case you just generally don’t want to engage with these topics at this point in your life. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm and Infidelity

imstephtacular's review

challenging informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Ableism, Medical trauma, and Classism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Infidelity, Sexism, and Medical content

adeliab's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Mental illness

Moderate: Murder, Medical trauma, and Ableism

Minor: Car accident, Genocide, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Death of parent, Rape, and Self harm