Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

The Argonauts, by Maggie Nelson

12 reviews

aliciae08's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

3.0

I don’t know how to articulate my thoughts on this book. I know what I read, but if I were asked to describe this to someone, I just wouldn’t be able to.

It both reads like someone’s journal—scattered, but with the central theme hidden inside; and it also reads like someone’s xotero—their notes on articles that moved them just enough to be considered for a dissertation.

I didn’t love this book, but I definitely didn’t hate it either. It’s solidly a 3 for me. Sometimes the writing was pretentious and the sentences convoluted, but other times they were clear. Nelson talks honestly about motherhood and birthing, what her relationship looks like to her with a gender fluid partner and how their life is made up with all it’s mess, all it’s grief/fear and all it’s love. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Death of parent and Transphobia

Minor: Cancer, Stalking, and Murder

adelineania's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Pregnancy, and Death of parent

garynoplastie's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Stalking, Transphobia, Medical content, Grief, Deadnaming, and Infertility

Minor: Alcoholism

jonsnowsmanbun's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Sexual content, Transphobia, Terminal illness, Stalking, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Hate crime, Fatphobia, Cancer, Death of parent, and Abortion

Minor: Excrement

taviarz's review

challenging reflective slow-paced

4.0

I enjoyed the talks about motherhood, gender, and sexuality. This honestly probably would’ve been higher if there wasn’t any uncomfortable talks about race?? Like naming her son an Indigenous name when both her and her partner are white gives me the ick. I just wish white feminists would just not do appropriative things or feel the need to talk about race. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cancer

wild_er_ness's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

3.5

would’ve liked more about their family/lived experience, or from the perspective of harry himself. a more collaborative piece between the author and harry might have touched me more (like the final few pages did). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Stalking

Moderate: Pedophilia and Homophobia

Minor: Cancer

cryptidcas's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative tense slow-paced

4.5

confusing, poor structure, amazing points

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Pregnancy, Sexism, Stalking, and Transphobia

Minor: Abortion

ste11a's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Sexual content

Minor: Transphobia and Cancer

mallory10100's review against another edition

emotional informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

poetic, LGBTQ, memoir 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death of parent, Homophobia, Infertility, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Transphobia, Terminal illness, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, and Vomit

tabitha_isabelle's review against another edition

informative

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Sexual content, Stalking, and Vomit