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meggeorge's review against another edition
5.0
4.5 stars
Amazing experience. I couldn't put this book down.
This is a study in efficient prose and evocative structure. Everything about it works so well to paint a picture, despite the frequent abstraction. Some chapters terrified me more than some genre horror I've read.
Will definitely be reading more by this author.
Amazing experience. I couldn't put this book down.
This is a study in efficient prose and evocative structure. Everything about it works so well to paint a picture, despite the frequent abstraction. Some chapters terrified me more than some genre horror I've read.
Will definitely be reading more by this author.
tgranat's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
3.5
chasejon's review against another edition
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
tense
fast-paced
4.5
This is easily one of the best written memoirs I have ever read. Machado has a way of depicting real life events that simultaneously makes them more tangible and more fantastical at the same time. An emotional and gutwrenching story at times, but also one that is self-aware and suggests a brighter future.
sftomlinson's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
allibug26's review against another edition
5.0
Page 47 “We deserve to have our wrongdoing represented as much as our heroism, because when we refuse wrongdoing as a possibility for a group of people, we refuse their humanity. That is to say, queers- real life ones- do not deserve representation, protection, and rights because they are morally pure or upright as a people. They deserve those things because they are human beings, and that is enough.”
juliaannhelene's review against another edition
I assume the Author’s use of repeatedly describing herself and her emotions from a third perspective is supposed to be a stylistic choice. Still, unfortunately, it didn't work for me and infuriated my reading experience more than anything.
Example:
“You will never feel as desperate and fucked up and horrible as you do when you hear those things."
It's still an interesting read and probably worth most people's time as it talks about an important subject, that being queer abuse, in this case wlw.
“We deserve to have our wrongdoing represented as much as our heroism, because when we refuse wrongdoing as a possibility for a group of people, we refuse their humanity.”
Example:
“You will never feel as desperate and fucked up and horrible as you do when you hear those things."
It's still an interesting read and probably worth most people's time as it talks about an important subject, that being queer abuse, in this case wlw.
“We deserve to have our wrongdoing represented as much as our heroism, because when we refuse wrongdoing as a possibility for a group of people, we refuse their humanity.”