Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

29 reviews

pang's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Death of parent, and Sexual content

Moderate: Stalking and Grief

Minor: Transphobia

rileyeffective's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Death of parent

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

softanimal's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Medical content, and Sexual content

beanwa's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

Really enjoyable read - Nelson's writing is very beautiful. It was really interesting getting her perspective on homonormativity (capitalism etc.), queer parenthood, and her own journey with motherhood. I will say, I kind of just read through this accepting I wasn't going to retain or understand much of it lol. I find the lack of structure a bit difficult on my ADHD brain. BUT that did not make it any less enjoyable or interesting.

Especially loved her perspective of being partnered with someone who is gender non-conforming/trans/non-binary.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Stalking

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

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