Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

5 reviews

maess's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Cancer, Grief, Homophobia, Sexism, Stalking, Death, Drug use, Misogyny, Death of parent, Medical content, Sexual content, Abortion, Terminal illness, Addiction, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Transphobia, Vomit, Outing, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy

lilysendroff's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

Combination of theory and memoir, muddies the binary of transgressive and normative through reflections on queerness, motherhood, pregnancy, and family. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, and Stalking

Moderate: Addiction and Sexism

Minor: Abortion

Frequent mentions of Buddhism, reference to a theorist who makes questionable claims about being pregnant with mixed children as a white woman, and naming their child with a Native American name are all aspects of the books that entirely fail to interrogate the role whiteness, which is both jarring and disappointing.

suspicious_salmon's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Pregnancy

Moderate: Dysphoria, Medical content, Sexual content, Lesbophobia, Transphobia, and Infertility

Minor: Alcoholism, Cultural appropriation, Excrement, Grief, Deadnaming, Addiction, Miscarriage, Stalking, and Terminal illness

toastyyslut's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

incredible exploration of gender in relationships and while trying to have children. made me rethink so much about motherhood and queer motherhood.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Stalking, and Vomit

emilymdxn's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Stalking

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Transphobia