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phoebe_phorreal's review
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
This was technically not a perfect book. I get all the criticisms, and not every essay hit. But something written by a once-religious, neurotic, trans person? It's like it's literally made for me!
Half of the book feels like sermons or homilies, and they're written really well, too. There's bits about James T. Kirk as a beautiful lesbian that oddly make sense, a wry bit of dialogue including Athena, all sorts of things about being a trans man, sure, but also dealing with alcoholism, Stoicism but make it weird, surrealist mean girls, and randomly yelling nice things to men. Also a bit about Dante's Inferno and time spent at a fundamentalist adventure camp.
Just a lot of good thoughts on Bible passages, lot of deep dives into pop culture, a delightful assortment that is sure to put your inner neurotic at peace and religious or no, give you a bit to think about. I don't think it tries to hard to not be that trans memoir, it's just a guy vibing and growing to be more and more of a wife guy over 24o pages, in turns relatable and bizarre, but always enjoyable.
Half of the book feels like sermons or homilies, and they're written really well, too. There's bits about James T. Kirk as a beautiful lesbian that oddly make sense, a wry bit of dialogue including Athena, all sorts of things about being a trans man, sure, but also dealing with alcoholism, Stoicism but make it weird, surrealist mean girls, and randomly yelling nice things to men. Also a bit about Dante's Inferno and time spent at a fundamentalist adventure camp.
Just a lot of good thoughts on Bible passages, lot of deep dives into pop culture, a delightful assortment that is sure to put your inner neurotic at peace and religious or no, give you a bit to think about. I don't think it tries to hard to not be that trans memoir, it's just a guy vibing and growing to be more and more of a wife guy over 24o pages, in turns relatable and bizarre, but always enjoyable.
Content Warnings
Minor: Alcoholism and Addiction
also minor CW for religious trauma
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