Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc

42 reviews

kmae314's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Medical content, Chronic illness, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Body shaming, Dysphoria, and Xenophobia

libraryoflanelle's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, Medical content, Ableism, Bullying, and Mental illness

Minor: Cancer

melodyseestrees's review

informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

My specific edition was somewhat difficult to read due to either the font or the spacing of the lines. I was unable to get used to it during my reading. This may just be an issue for my copy though. The material inside was insightful and informative. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Medical content, and Bullying

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Rape

queergoth_reads's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Really fantastic book about fairytale and how linked they are to the way disabilities are viewed. 

I think I would have liked a bit more on the conversations about intersectionality but I understand why they weren't expanded on. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Ableism

good_names_dont_exist's review

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Ableism, and Bullying

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Rape

alysereadsbooks's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

I read this in honor of Disability Pride Month and it did not disappoint. Part essay, part memoir, I loved to hear about the author's experience with cerebral palsy and how fairy tales shaped her childhood, and subliminally, her perceptions of disability. It is a reminder that the stories we tell ourselves and each other do matter and have an impact. Worth a reread as well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Bullying

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

entanglednovels's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Mental illness, and Medical content

danimacuk's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

2.5

I wanted to like this book, but unfortunately it was pretty disappointing to me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Body shaming and Bullying

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Confinement, Death, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Rape, Terminal illness, and Violence

puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

It was very interesting and I enjoyed the way it wove a narrative out of the author’s personal stories, fairy tales and research. I’m always afraid I’ll get bored and stop retaining information when listening to a nonfiction audiobook, but with this one I was always engaged and just wanted to keep listening! If you have any interest in disability history and/or fairy tales I recommend this book! It’s not a light read as far as the subject matter goes — through the ages disabled people have experienced & still experience terrible violence and discrimination — but I never found it depressing (at least not for long). I learned a lot & saw the deeper history behind some things I already knew.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Bullying

Moderate: Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Abandonment, Child abuse, Rape, and Murder

morgan_the_moth's review

informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Ableism, and Bullying

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Rape