Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Fra Drømmehuset by Carmen Maria Machado

309 reviews

julieriley99's review against another edition

emotional informative tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Homophobia, Physical abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

melted_books's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

5.0

An exquisitely crafted memoir. Lyrical, evocative, poignant, vulnerable. Listening to the audiobook, narrated by the author herself, is mesmerizing as you absorb the multidimensionality of Machado's experiences being psychologically and emotionally abused. Machado's choice to tell her story using various narrative tropes was boldly creative, and it is the main reason why this is a standout memoir to me. I had not read anything quite like this before. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Homophobia

Moderate: Physical abuse

ivi_reads_books's review against another edition

The writing style was too embelished for me and the narrator/author seemed quite detached from what was happening in the book

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse

sparklynightmare's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Moderate: Physical abuse

saviirose's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

lilylovestoread's review against another edition

informative reflective sad tense

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Lesbophobia

coralcrab77's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

iwishihadmoretimetoread's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

Minor: Drug abuse and Dementia

buffee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

jschro12's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

 In the Dream House is a memoir by Carmen Maria Machado told through dozens and dozens of lenses, and Machado expertly flips them down, one after the other, layering them on top of each other in a way so as to see each of their facets both individually and in combination. Domestic abuse in queer relationships suffers from a respectability politic that renders a topic that already is hidden and shied away from even more invisible. She adds this memoir and these stories of her relationship with her abusive ex to the archive: “I speak into the silence. I toss the stone of my story into a vast crevice, measure the emptiness by its small sound.”  Machado lyrically and poetically guides us through from the early days to the end of their relationship, while also drawing from experiences across her life and from sources across the spectrum about queer domestic abuse. Within In the Dream House, she is both imagining languages and structures within which to understand her experiences, while simultaneously critiquing and navigating the building of those forms. The resulting work is both stunningly beautiful and oozingly horrifying, especially (as Machado notes) in the mundanity of the story contained within its pages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse