Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Pageboy by Elliot Page

60 reviews

kelisabeth's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Grief, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, Dysphoria, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual content, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Biphobia, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Alcoholism, Blood, Sexism, Toxic friendship, Stalking, Emotional abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Transphobia, Drug use, Medical content, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Self harm

moonyreadsbystarlight's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective

5.0

I really loved this! It seems like the nonlinear story telling is something that folks seem really divided on, but I thought he did it really well. I enjoyed the way he wrote generally speaking, but also specifically the nonlinear narrative. 

I really resonated with the way he described some more internal experiences - as a fellow pisces, that internal escapism is unfortunately quite a mood (especially re: the closet and gender dysphoria). I really enjoyed the different aspects of relationships he discussed in here and the discussion of boundaries and autonomy. There were definitely some hard parts to read emotionally, but it was all really well done and I really liked this book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Dysphoria, Excrement, Bullying, Outing, Sexual assault, and Transphobia

Moderate: Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Minor: Colonisation

stellahadz's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Dysphoria, Stalking, Transphobia, and Homophobia

Moderate: Medical content, Eating disorder, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, and Deadnaming

Minor: Excrement and Vomit

theoceanrose's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Sexual content, Transphobia, and Sexual assault

Minor: Toxic relationship and Injury/Injury detail

vagaybond's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Transphobia, Drug use, and Sexual content

Moderate: Outing, Alcohol, Deadnaming, and Medical content

Minor: Religious bigotry, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Outing, and Lesbophobia

lizzisok's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Transphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Rape, Homophobia, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic, Eating disorder, and Self harm

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

callidoralblack's review

emotional

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Medical content, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Sexual content, Violence, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Vomit, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Sexual violence, Blood, Cursing, Deadnaming, Excrement, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, and Lesbophobia

catcherinthepi's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

Elliot is such a unique writer, and I enjoyed getting to know his story on his terms. It is quite clear this wasn't ghost-written. The structure is non-linear, which is hard to follow at times, but I actually enjoyed this aspect of the memoir. I interpreted the structure as thematic rather than chronological; it felt like we as readers got a peek into how Elliot put together the pieces of his life, mind, and body to come to his current sense of self. I also enjoyed the endearing historical anecdotes about places in Canada.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Dysphoria, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Outing, Sexual violence, Deadnaming, and Vomit

brandie_abbie19's review

dark hopeful sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Sexism, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Homophobia, Transphobia, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual violence, Vomit, and Pandemic/Epidemic

rionstorm's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

I love reading about other transmascs :) This is definitely self indulgent, but then it is a memoir so no better place i guess. 
In between the long list of his ex-partners there's some really honest and vulnerable stuff about being trans that i resonated with a lot, and that I'm glad that other people, cis and trans, will get to read. I also really liked how he explained why he was using his previous name at times, and clearly laid out that he wasn't comfortable with others doing that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Child abuse, Transphobia, Homophobia, Sexual content, Lesbophobia, Stalking, Sexual assault, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Gaslighting, Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Alcohol, Body shaming, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Vomit, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, and Self harm

Minor: Pregnancy, Racism, Medical content, Drug use, and Pandemic/Epidemic