Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

En la casa de los sueños by Carmen Maria Machado

131 reviews

laurenleigh's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This has been on my TBR ever since I saw @junebuganddarlin make a beautiful cross stitch kit with a phrase from the book. I highly recommend listening to the author read the audiobook. It feels like a spoken word poetry memoir. While not an upbeat feel-good summer read, this is an important piece of literature on abusive relationships in the queer community, which is evidently highly underrepresented in the field. I imagine the author also did a lot of healing through the writing process, and I felt honored to get to hear her intimate stories. While perhaps not the main focus, my favorite element of the text was Machado’s exploration of literary generes and motifs. My heart was happy to see words like picaresque and Bildungsroman. The opening section on the topic of archives is particularly sticking with me. I wish I had a classroom to go discuss that section in!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcohol and Cursing

mkwreads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Alcohol, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Infidelity

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicidal thoughts

daria_mm's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Body shaming and Homophobia

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

hannibanani29's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Drug use, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Physical abuse, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, and Grief

Minor: Animal death, Death, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Biphobia, Blood, Cancer, Car accident, Dementia, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

snowydaze's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

Words cannot describe how deeply I enjoyed this book. The strange format flowed nicely and worked well when listening to the audiobook. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Sexual content, Body shaming, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Violence, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, and Grief

Minor: Alcohol and Blood

cereads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Cursing, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Homophobia, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Alcohol, and Blood

sammyb's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Homophobia

vigil's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

everything carmen maria machado writes is breathtaking and this book is no different. if you can stomach the theme of abuse, i highly recommend it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Cursing, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

denteaste's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Cursing, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Bullying, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Domestic abuse

thewordsdevourer's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

3.5

in the dream house is a singular memoir, one w/ a unique - even ingenious - structure that masterfully distills the volatile and oscillating emotions, particularly tense fear, of the abused. 

machado recounts and examines her personal experience of an abusive relationship through the lens of various artistic genres, objects, things, ideas, lending each chapter an eerie, tense, sometimes detached feeling. the aforementioned is also framed against the larger historical backdrop of overlooked and non-mainstream subject of abuse in queer and lesbian relationships, and i learned a lot from the existing canon that's included in the book.

overall, a distinctive memoir on an oft under-discussed experience that's also able to critically discuss larger historical and social contexts.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Fatphobia, Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Homophobia, and Violence

Minor: Infertility, Animal death, Infidelity, and Vomit