Reviews tagging 'Mass/school shootings'

A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

17 reviews

cantfindmybookmark's review

challenging emotional reflective

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, Transphobia, Homophobia, Police brutality, Racism, Mass/school shootings, Suicide, and Colonisation

littlecat's review

dark reflective

2.0

The rating is much more about my reading expierince of this book then a value of it cause the prose was the kind of dense style that I had a hard time reading, there are concepts I encountered  already  ( “Books of the sort I want to write are banned, for they are against the world that birthed the writer.”) that  I like tried to mental hold onto to understand the book but - it felt too unfocused for it to work for me, the constant quoting of others just made me want to read someone else and the general bleak tone (which he of course is entitled to! just wasnt for me). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Mass/school shootings, Colonisation, Sexual content, Racism, Suicide, Body shaming, Rape, Transphobia, Genocide, Police brutality, and Homophobia

becksusername's review

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

4.0

This book was anything but simple. Belcourt is obviously a poet, and in these essays makes many hard-hitting points about life as an indigenous queer person in Canada with lots of big words I had to look up, startling metaphors, and round-about storytelling. It was a lot to process and there were many quotes I wrote down to think about more. Even so, I'm sure a lot of his meaning will have gone over my head.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Racism, Police brutality, Suicide, Sexual content, Medical trauma, and Mass/school shootings

kiaragennaro's review

challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mass/school shootings, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Sexual content, and Suicide

deadpoetsam's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Homophobia, Grief, Colonisation, Murder, Toxic relationship, Cultural appropriation, Racism, and Sexual content

Moderate: Gun violence, Hate crime, Religious bigotry, Child death, Suicide attempt, Mass/school shootings, Police brutality, Sexism, and Suicide

Minor: Death

callmeamelia's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Homophobia, Transphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Sexual content, Racism, Police brutality, Murder, Mental illness, Mass/school shootings, Grief, and Gaslighting

issiwerro's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Racism, and Sexual content

Minor: Suicide