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Das Archiv der Träume by Carmen Maria Machado

91 reviews

eoghannnivall's review against another edition

dark reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

animalsmals's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Body shaming, Confinement, Drug use, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death, Biphobia, and Vomit

mallory10100's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

5.0

wow this book was amazing. heartbreaking yet quick. i highly recommend. i really liked the unique format. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Grief, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Death, Eating disorder, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Vomit, Dementia, Death of parent, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

this book really doesn’t feel like non fiction, but it’s a chilling true story and i highly recommend it

toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I found it. The perfect memoir. The writing throughout this entire book is so beautiful even while describing the most harrowing details that I couldn't believe I was allowed to read it. It is beautiful and horrifying. There is also a lot of important commentary throughout about how women can easily be monsters in lesbian relationships, that abusive relationships are not exclusively a heterosexual phenomenon and the myth of the "lesbian utopia" is just that, myth. In reality, lesbian relationships have the capability to be just as toxic as any other relationship, that we should believe queer women when they come forward with their stories and not dismiss them. Abuse is abuse, be the perpetrator a man, woman, or gender nonconforming. I think this one is gonna stay with me for a really really long time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Stalking, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Alcohol

Minor: Blood

lycheejelly's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Grief, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death, Biphobia, Cancer, Cursing, Gun violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Dementia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Lesbophobia

halcyonkathryn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Infidelity and Vomit

Minor: Body shaming

macadoo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Infidelity, Vomit, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Animal death

dramaqueentears's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Carmen Maria Machado tells the story of her abusive same-sex relationship. She tells it in small snippets that come together and put the whole picture in perspective. While I enjoyed reading about her experience, it was the format that captivated me. Machado calls her ex “the woman in the dream house.” Most of the abuse takes place in the “dream house,” so each essay snippet is written like this: “Dream House in Deja Vu,” with Deja Vu being the name of the essay. 

She makes a lot of interesting connections between past written accounts of abusive lesbian relationships. Butch women are easier for society to cast as abusers. If you’re a woman of color in an abusive same-sex relationship, you can forget about any kind of public empathy. She speaks of Debra Reid of the Framingham Eight and how she was criminalized harder for defending herself against her partner because she was a Black lesbian. It was bone chilling how the rest of the Framingham Eight were allowed to move on in society while Debra Reid was never allowed the same freedom. Cis hetero people have no problem believing queer women to be capable of being abusers while queer women turn their backs on victims because they can’t tolerate the “bad press.” There is a lot to think about in between the pages of fear, love, and devastation that Machado describes about her ex. 

Also Machado did something genius. The Choose Your Adventure chapter was impeccable. I can’t recommend this enough. 

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Vomit

sianreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

One of the most unique memoirs I've ever read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Minor: Body shaming, Blood, and Vomit

biblioleah's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

incredible

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Adult/minor relationship