Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

23 reviews

uranaishi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment

Moderate: Sexual violence, Stalking, Animal death, Bullying, Car accident, Death, Sexism, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Rape, and Alcohol

Minor: Infidelity, Excrement, Xenophobia, Animal cruelty, Self harm, Cursing, Drug use, Colonisation, Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Confinement, Classism, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Cancer, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, and Grief

borrowmybookjacket's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This is my second reading of Ducks. I'm a long time fan of Beaton and the comics about her life were always interesting. It's fascinating to look into someone else's life. It's not just another world, it's their view of an entirely different world. But tragically many things are still the same 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Sexism, and Misogyny

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Car accident, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Cancer, Rape, Alcohol, Cursing, Body shaming, Grief, and Sexual assault

Minor: Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Classism, Colonisation, Excrement, and Fire/Fire injury

tays_books's review

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Cursing, Sexism, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Car accident and Alcohol

Minor: Cancer, Addiction, Animal death, Death, and Stalking

boygirlparty's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

4.25

The afterword made me cry. I’ve been reading and enjoying Kate Beaton’s work since she first started her webcomic & this is a very different direction and a triumph.
Big, big trigger warning for sexual assault, plus environmental catastrophe, and cancer. I saw the French title of the book is “toxic environment” and yeah, that fits all three.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment and Sexual assault

Moderate: Cancer

hologlam's review against another edition

challenging dark informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Colonisation, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Animal death

Minor: Addiction and Cancer

smolfrog's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Misogyny, and Sexism

Moderate: Sexual violence, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Cancer, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, and Stalking

hayleymunro's review against another edition

reflective tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Animal death

Moderate: Mental illness, Cancer, Drug abuse, Classism, Gaslighting, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Misogyny, Addiction, Death, and Colonisation

traa's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Stalking, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Infidelity

Moderate: Mental illness, Grief, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Car accident, Classism, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Colonisation, Cursing, Drug use, and Gaslighting

Minor: Blood, Body horror, Fatphobia, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Cancer, and Excrement

shays's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

 Content Note: Sexual assault

Ducks makes for a somewhat grim read, dealing as it does with the double whammy of environmental devastation and sexual assault. The entire comic is drawn in greyscale, from the starkly beautiful landscapes of Cape Breton and Northern Alberta to the barren devastation of the oil sands, and even the aurora borealis and a rainbow. Beaton largely elides the first assault with four simple but effective pitch-black panels. The second time, slightly more is shown on page as she depicts herself getting up and walking away from her body while the attack takes place.

Threaded throughout the narrative is the deep longing for home experienced by the many Atlantic Canadians forced to go west in order to find work to support their families. The camps are filled with refugees from the collapsed resource industries of Newfoundland and Cape Breton, be it mining or fishing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Misogyny

Moderate: Alcoholism and Drug abuse

Minor: Cancer

arantzazureads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I loved this view into an unknown yet known world. It was deeply compelling, a work of darkness infused with humor, facial expressions changing the effect of the words, just an absolute masterpiece. Every one (especially men) should read this book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Misogyny, and Cancer