Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki

21 reviews

jacks_bookshelf's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Pregnancy, Rape, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, and Animal death

funnylittlejester's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I absolutely adored this book. A five star that book that deserves it, not for being someone’s favorite book or very informative, but just a genuinely engaging piece of media that left me thinking and wanting more everytime I put it down.
God, Ozeki kept making new, lovable characters and I loved how everyone’s stories tied together and how it flowed. I wish Akiko got a bit more time because it was mainly Jane driven but I loved it all so so so much definitely one of my top books of the year.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Toxic relationship, Racial slurs, Abortion, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

waybeyondblue's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Animal death, Rape, Animal cruelty, Sexual violence, Lesbophobia, Gore, and Cultural appropriation

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Infertility, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, and Pedophilia

emordnilap's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Please check content warnings for this book!!
As a college student, one of my classes this semester focused on US Multiethnic Literature. This book is the last of the 6 books we have read this semester. For many of the other books I chose to annotate in great detail, but for this book I decided I wasn't going to do that. And I think that allowed me to enjoy it more.
My professor (she is often strange), described this book as funny and I have to strongly disagree. It is anything but funny. This book is not to be taken lightly in any format. 
As a vegetarian who does it for the lack of enjoyment from eating and cooking meat and finds it easier to be vegetarian, this book was eye-opening into the meat industry. Granted I like to believe things have changed from when this book was published in the 1990s, but I think that I also know better than to believe that. 
The connections made throughout this book were interesting and compelling and I think that the lighthearted connections made with the characters helped to balance out the trauma and pain of the darker areas of the book. 
I also enjoyed the representation of Northampton lesbians as a college student lesbian in the area. Gotta love Lesbianville, USA. 
In conclusion, I think that this is a good book, but only if you are mentally prepared for its themes and believe that the content warnings will not be triggering at all because all the descriptions are quite graphic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Eating disorder, Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Rape, Miscarriage, Vomit, Body shaming, Sexual assault, Infertility, and Grief

Moderate: Racism, Pregnancy, and Racial slurs

The sexual assault and rape scenes and the aftermath of them are especially graphic. Please take caution with reading this book!!

tilla's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

This novel was thought provoking, disturbing and made me slightly nauseous at times. I didn't know exactly what I went into when picking it up but I am glad I read it. It is a scathing criticism of the meat industry and the commercial industry as well wrapped up in characters I ended up connecting with. 
I would recommend reading the trigger warnings as after the halfway point it becomes difficult at times to read.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence, Animal cruelty, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Eating disorder

becksusername's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Rape, Blood, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Lesbophobia, Miscarriage, and Misogyny

Moderate: Pregnancy and Alcoholism

Minor: Abortion

notsansastark's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

Really thought provoking. Makes me want to be a vegetarian. Interesting discussion on identity—who are we? Reading about the world on the cusp of the millennium was interesting, as the world is even more globalized than Ozeki had predicted. Not my favorite work of hers, but it drew me in and kept me wanting more nonetheless. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Blood, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Pregnancy

Minor: Infidelity and Infertility

minxtte's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Vomit, Eating disorder, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Domestic abuse, Infertility, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Cancer, Medical content, and Miscarriage

Minor: Abortion, Car accident, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, and Racism

e_z's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Pregnancy, Blood, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Medical trauma, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, and Rape

tiredurbanist's review

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Blood, Sexual content, Pedophilia, Animal death, Cancer, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Infertility, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Animal cruelty, Sexual violence, and Xenophobia