Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

71 reviews

bealmg's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual harassment

Minor: Animal death, Drug abuse, and Death

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

devynreadsnovels's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Sexual harassment, Drug use, Sexual assault, Violence, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Car accident, Cursing, Toxic friendship, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Bullying, Infidelity, Fatphobia, Grief, Stalking, Classism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Sexual violence, and Mental illness

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

TWO fade-to-black rape scenes.

thewordsdevourer's review

challenging reflective medium-paced

3.25

ducks was a darker-than-expected read, w/ beaton's graphic memoir focusing on her 2 yrs working in canada's oil sands, which proved to be a complex, nuanced experience w/ negative repercussions nevertheless.

the book dealt w/ human behavior when situated in an unusual microcosm thats focused on the wrong things, demonstrating the oil companies' flaws and policies that enabled a culture of silence and harassment. im disturbed to learn that beaton's experience was a daily struggle of living in a man's world, encountering sexist and misogynistic behavior both glaringly alarming and casually subtle.

tho i cant fully say the reading experience as a whole was enjoyable due to my detached distance from the stable, wearying tone of the story, the art was great - never an awkward panel to be found - w/ both fluid characters and more realistic illustrations of the setting, many of which were notable. i also appreciated beaton touching on the oil industry's culpability in wreaking destruction to the local communities, and the awareness of her own positionality.

id recommend this book to ppl who wouldnt be disturbed by the book's triggering content, and those interested in learning abt sth rarely explored esp in visual form.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual harassment, and Sexism

Moderate: Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Infidelity, Drug use, Mental illness, and Stalking

Minor: Racism, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Death, Drug abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

te_ss_i's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Grief, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Animal death, Drug abuse, Racism, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual violence, Infidelity, Classism, Misogyny, Sexism, Car accident, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Suicide, Emotional abuse, and Racial slurs

leontyna's review against another edition

challenging dark

4.0

It was a tough read but a very necessary one. It's a very well told deeply personal story. I work in a male dominated industry too (although a blue collar one) and sexism is indeed a sad reality of those kinds of professions. And of course like in Kate's case it's always "only joking"... 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Death and Animal death

clarabooksit's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Mental illness, Sexism, Rape, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, and Classism

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Racism, Stalking, and Suicide

kaitzeecee's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Colonisation, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Animal death, and Alcoholism

janenilsson24's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body horror, Addiction, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Car accident

innocentce's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

Migration of people from East Coast to other provinces, is not a new thing  and Kate Beaton shows in her graphic memeoir that is not a simple answer. She writes and shows something most people with debt can relate to being able to pay off debt they will tolerate things that they would not normally do, but everyone has their breaking point.  She shows how circumstances and situations can change people both for the goos and bad. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Death, Colonisation, Car accident, and Addiction