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Nella casa dei tuoi sogni by Carmen Maria Machado

347 reviews

katreena's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, and Homophobia

rachelfayreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Bullying, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Sexual violence

dexlud's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

In The Dream House is a beautiful memoir by Carmen Maria Machado. The writing style is beautifully poetic and the vocabulary that Machado uses is absolutely stunning. I will say that this is easily read in mass chunks, and I ended up taking a break from this book because the vocab was just a lot. It’s incredibly complex and at times hard to understand. Overall, a very good book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Bullying, Sexism, Suicide, Death, Grief, Homophobia, Gaslighting, and Medical content

Moderate: Animal death and Vomit

ktdaugherty's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Homophobia

sian_angharad's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Sexual content, Homophobia, Infidelity, and Lesbophobia

buttercat42's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

Somewhat difficult to get into at first, and then impossible to put down. I love the fragmented format and found it very readable. The writing was deliciously intelligent. An important queer story I didn’t know I needed. One quibble— of course I understand the importance of the more educational passsges at the end, but they felt poorly incorporated with the rest of the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Blood, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Alcohol and Homophobia

waterbear0821's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.75

This memoir is about lesbian intimate partner abuse. It’s well-written and even if you have not experienced intimate partner abuse and you can’t relate to the author (not all of us are professional writers and academics), you may relate to the stress and grief and confusion the author describes. I found the dream house to be an effective if slightly annoying device for carrying the story. The history of lesbian intimate partner abuse, and domestic violence generally, was very interesting, sad, and important. It was a compelling refrain that abuse in a queer relationships has unique challenges because it doesn’t easily fit our cultural narrative- both because it’s less relatable and therefore less believable and because it carries the special shame of failing to be a model minority. This was captivating and terrible to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Homophobia

emcanady's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

a beautifully written, lyrical memoir about domestic abuse, queer love, and metaphor. i loved the bits about queer theory, specifically the parts centering around the ephemera of queer lives and memory. i read this in one sitting and would recommend it to anyone who is okay reading about these topics. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Violence, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Gaslighting

sophiesometimesreads's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

Wow. I don't know how to adequately describe this book. It was beautifully written and explores the important topic of abusive relationships and, more specifically, queer abusive relationships, though Machado's recollection of her experiences interspersed with commentary on literature, media and a societal perception of what constitutes as abuse. The short chapters made it easy to get through, which balanced out the heavy topic matter. PLEASE check your trigger warnings before reading this, but it was a very powerful and important read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, and Homophobia

Moderate: Sexual content and Suicidal thoughts

jadejeanne's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

this book, honestly, changed my life. not only is it a memoir about the author's personal domestic abuse story, but it also brings in outside discussions on the perceptions of queer people and women. i adore the way it is formatted, and recommend it to anyone i might come by! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Homophobia and Biphobia

Minor: Fatphobia