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Ash C.

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An Honest Experience with Depression and Coping

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-09-23

With the majority (if not near entirety) of the narrative being transcriptions of the author's own psychiatric sessions, "I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki" is reflective. A mirror into the quiet agonies of coping with depression and anxiety in the most tender, most open form possible. I can see how this wasn't for everyone; it is almost entirely dialogue, lacks a lot of the malleability for a variety of outlooks most other texts of it's type have, and is...raw. It isn't curated to be consumed easily. It is the author's own personal pains, her agonies, and if you get it...you get it. If she says something that strikes a cord it HITS. Most of Chapter 4 felt like an tender scar for me. This isn't a book about triumph, about getting over, it's more realistic. Softer. It's about coping, and living, and becoming comfortable in one's own personal weaknesses. Learning to take them with stride and win where you can while accepting that those victories come with time and patience, and set backs. It may seem relentlessly depressing to some, but if you're like me? It's a mirror, and it's comforting to know that others feel the same. That you aren't alone in your journey to find a baseline.

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Masterful. An Essential True Crime Experience.

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 05-28-22

I was gripped. The late McNamara's prose positively exudes her passion and expertise despite the fact that this book is largely incomplete due to it being in-progress at the time of her passing. There are some slow areas. The early sections focusing on her family and herself are a bit ponderous, but I feel necessary to understand McNamara as a person...which I feel is important to know; this book is both crime procedural, as well as journal. In a lot of ways it almost feels like a manifesto. She has been maddened by her need to expose this man. To see him face the light and for his victims to gain closure from that justice. If you are here for a voyeuristic look into the grizzle and obscenity of crime; this isnt it. If you DO NOT want the writer's input on a case, and just want the facts; this isnt it. But, if you want to hear the GUTS of an investigation, and in a way that is respectful to the victims involved, this is definitely worth your credits/dollars.

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delightfully morbid

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 05-21-19

I work long shifts at my job where I mostly sit and wait to be interacted with...and maybe this wasn't the best book to listen to while doing so because it left me...expressive. I wouldn't say I was gagging at every torrid detail of decomp and death, but some stories certainly got me. Deeply, deeply they got me. I found this book through the author's youtube channel (of which I now subscribe) and while I can't say that I'm an enthusiastic member of The Order of The Good Death I will say I respect what she's trying to accomplish.

All in all; if you have a strong stomach, and curiosity for the inner workings of an industry often considered dirty and frightening, then you'll love this book. Caitlin's story is informational as it is oddly intimate; I'd never expected her to reveal so much about herself and her own personal struggles overcoming the concept of mortality. These parts, especially, were my favorite as they were especially well done.

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