Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

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

13 reviews

greentearex's review against another edition

informative lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.0

Really enjoyed the audio book, you can tell by the delivery that the author worked/works for NPR. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, and Murder

Minor: Animal death and Animal cruelty

A lesson in embracing chaos/nihilism, and never meeting your heros

emmettdakool's review

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Xenophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Forced institutionalization

justkellyann's review

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Death, Child death, and Medical trauma

Minor: Xenophobia and Rape

whatannikareads's review

informative reflective sad fast-paced

2.75

nooooooot y’all tricking me into reading about a eugenicist!!

i’m a mixed bag of emotions about this book. after about halfway through i think the first half of the book was completely unnecessary/a different book altogether. i fell asleep quite a few times during the first half. the second half was much more interesting, but i kept getting whiplash on the organization of it; we kept switching from history to memoir to social science. i don’t feel the memoir section was expanded enough to be super engaging. the connection between the writer and david star jordan, aside from her research of him, felt like a reach. i think if she has developed her story more, or just made it a completely separate book, it could’ve been more enjoyable. the whole book could’ve just been 3 different articles tbh. it felt like reading a really long op-ed and i don’t think ot should’ve been a book tbh.

also again, i don’t know if talking about how shitty his beliefs were in the second half made up for how nicely he was portrayed in the first half?? it was just very clearly not written by a person of color lol. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical trauma, Death, Racism, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Ableism

sebastianflynn's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Racism, Biphobia, Cursing, and Genocide

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

del_phinium's review

inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Xenophobia, and Murder

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Rape

claudiamacpherson's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Racism, Xenophobia, and Homophobia

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

builtonbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Ableism, Racism, and Xenophobia