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Pageboy by Elliot Page

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5.0


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4.0


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5.0

I'd die for Elliot Page

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3.25


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4.0


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stevia333k's review

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4.25

The last 3rd was good, and i say this because the first 2 thirds were violent as hell. I had to learn that he was in a lot of action movies basically in order to handle it & i also could only listen 10 minutes at a time at triple speed. 

Anyways, after a while certain parts about being trans were like oh good my transfemme self isn't alone. 

The relationships though & the shadow work kinda went over my head because I'm aromantic but the workplace accident (because of how wreckless the directors were to black & queer lives) helped connect me to the kind of stuff he meant, so I am thankful he included workplace incidents like that.

Also the memoir isn't told as chronologically, so basically if you're taking notes then I recommend trying to make a character list sort of glossary since the time dimension doesn't sort them, but some segments are like public letters.

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lupinusrivularis's review against another edition

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5.0

There are little pieces of me in this book now, pieces that I didn't know I would find and some that I've left behind.

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marmaladereads's review against another edition

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This book is... ooof.

I love Elliott Page's work and I love him no less for having read this book, but I probably would not recommend this to other queer readers. This is an incredibly difficult, depressing, and mostly tragic story of mental illness struggle, how cruel society is towards queer and trans people, and a first hand account of why trans people have such a high rate of mental illness and suicide. 

There is an incredible amount of explicit, graphic on page homophobia, transphobia, and abuse in this book.

It's highly relatable, well written, and feels incredibly true, but also made me feel sad and scared about the state of the world, and I have quite enough of that in my life already, tyvm.

Do check the content warnings before reading. 

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