Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

En la casa de los sueños by Carmen Maria Machado

131 reviews

painausten314's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

“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.”

This memoir examines and exposes domestic abuse in lesbian relationships and queer relationships overall. The writing made me feel all the right things at the right moments, and left me feeling her relief as she brought her story to its close. It is weird to say that someone can write about something as ugly as abuse in a beautiful way, but Machado does.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Homophobia, Religious bigotry, and Lesbophobia

kers_tin's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Homophobia, Biphobia, Body shaming, Confinement, and Cursing

shoohoob's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

4.5

Just so dark but gripping. Carmen Maria Machado’s style of writing is so so good

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Violence, Sexual content, Infidelity, and Homophobia

emilymbrown's review against another edition

dark emotional informative fast-paced

stop rating memoirs you weirdos!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Sexual violence, Fatphobia, Lesbophobia, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

pey333's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Homophobia, and Biphobia

rieviolet's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

3.5

This book deals with an extremely important topic that needs to be voiced and discussed. That said, as a piece of work itself, I liked it so-so. 

I did not get along with the narrative structure, I found the rapid-fire succession of chapters (supposed to show different genres and narrative styles) too much disjointed and confusing. The writing style is a bit too much experimental for me.

I liked much more the chapters that were "essay-like", exploring queer history and theory. However, I think that this mixing of informative chapters together with more literary and elaborately written ones was a bit jarring, it felt like two different books mashed up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, Lesbophobia, Body horror, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Fatphobia, Alcohol, Animal death, Child abuse, Abandonment, Mental illness, Sexism, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Gun violence, Medical content, Drug abuse, Torture, Cursing, Car accident, Biphobia, Sexual assault, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Sexual violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Forced institutionalization, Racism, Bullying, Transphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Religious bigotry, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Suicide, and Dementia

pinkpotayto's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

This memoir resonated with me in numerous ways. The eloquence and intelligence with which Machado writes is so fucking perfect. She is real and honest in dark ways that most people are too afraid to even think even though it's such a human way of thinking. Her abuse unfolds like thorns digging into your sides, thorns you cannot reach to remove. You have to get through it though, to reassure yourself that she mentally and physically escapes the dream house. Phenomenal and powerful book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Panic attacks/disorders, Gaslighting, Grief, and Lesbophobia

chaoticnostalgia's review against another edition

emotional tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Fatphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Cursing, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Homophobia

cassielaj's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

One of the best books I’ve ever read. Don’t get me wrong, this story is heart-wrenching and awful, but the way Machado writes about her experiences is nothing short of genius. I learned, I felt, I gaped — at some parts in horror, at others in awe. Truly stunning in every sense. A chilling, tense, emotional genre-bending memoir

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Cursing, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

nialiversuch's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Bullying, Cursing, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Body shaming, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Alcohol