Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

56 reviews

discocaptain's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

beautiful BEAUTIFUL story. its poignant with its arresting vistas juxtaposed against the mundane horror of being a woman in the places that beaton worked. its stark. it doesn't pull its punches from the assault to the boredom to the anxiety that pervades the comic. its gorgeous and a story that's important to tell- i just wish it didn't happen. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Alcohol, Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Rape, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

ryliereadss's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

For some reason I didn't expect this book to be so dark! The author is one of the few women who work in an oil camp, and she experiences a lot of sexism and harassment because of that. She didn't really have anyone to lean on while she was going through that. It was a tough read at times so definitely check trigger warnings. She also touched on subjects like the jobs people will do to pay for their student loans and the damage that oil rigs do to nature and to the people working on them.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Alcohol, and Rape

There are scenes that allude to her being raped and then there is a scene of her starting to be assaulted before she dissociates.

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.

chaoticweevil's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Sexism, and Alcohol

Minor: Infidelity and Suicide

thekipling's review against another edition

dark funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Alcohol, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Drug abuse, and Sexism

claireh6's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Colonisation, Sexual assault, Alcohol, and Addiction

lunablch's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative sad fast-paced

5.0

A beautiful book. Kate Beaton is such a wonderful artist and also delivers her story with such grace and humanity, despite the dark and traumatic content. 

A great reminder that circumstances (and capitalism) make people horrible, because people are generally good. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, and Death

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