Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

61 reviews

heyreadingpants's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Death of parent, and Mental illness

mollmccaff's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

Moderate: Pedophilia, Medical content, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Outing, Homophobia, and Grief

Minor: Alcohol and Mental illness

rayannotates's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

i don’t think i’ve ever read a book that i’ve so closely related to in regards to my sentiments towards my father.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Suicide, Pedophilia, Mental illness, and Cursing

Minor: Child death and Toxic relationship

foldingthepage_kayleigh's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Mental illness, Sexual content, Car accident, Adult/minor relationship, and Homophobia

stories's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-paced

2.5

Read for book club. 
There were structurally elements I really enjoyed, and reams of intertextuality that flew over my head. 
Loved a lot of the details in the background of the illustrations, and found it pleasingly easy to follow despite my lack of experience with graphic novels. 

Not what I expected, knowing that it had been turned into a musical, although I’m not sure what it was that I did expect. 

An engaging read - I pretty much read in a single sitting. 

((Personally, I found the most powerful beats all fell in the opening chapter))

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Pedophilia, Suicide, Car accident, and Death

casdelvo's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Child abuse, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Excrement, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, and Sexual content

Minor: Drug use, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, and Suicide

emmehooks's review against another edition

emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Homophobia, Mental illness, and Death of parent

Moderate: Pedophilia and Panic attacks/disorders

readandfindout's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

Style/writing: 3 stars
Themes: 4 stars 
Perspective: 2.5 stars (I have really complicated feelings because of how the adult-minor relationships were never really addressed in the narrative?)
Art: 3 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Death, Car accident, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicide, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Domestic abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Grief, Infidelity, Child abuse, and Lesbophobia

cheye13's review against another edition

funny reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicide, and Death of parent

Moderate: Grief, Sexual content, and Homophobia

Minor: Pedophilia, Drug use, Lesbophobia, Adult/minor relationship, and Infidelity

mimeflower's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Sexual content