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andreeanz's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Suicide
nicolaparty's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Car accident
Moderate: Alcoholism, Rape, and Death of parent
Minor: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Incest, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood
ciarrav's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Toxic relationship
angharad's review against another edition
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Grief
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Drug use, and Suicide
urbanall's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Pedophilia, and Sexual content
Moderate: Eating disorder and Suicide
voidshelves's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Grief
leahlovesloslibros's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Grief
Minor: Cancer
writtenontheflyleaves's review against another edition
4.75
🌟🌟🌟🌟✨
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This was one of my last reads of 2020 and it ended the reading year on a high!
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🗣 The concept: Lisa Taddeo weaves together the stories of three real women, whose lives she believes reveal something buried and true about women’s desires. The research here is unbelievably deep, and it gives the book the quality of a novel as you read it - it feels hyper-real almost, as Taddeo takes you inside the minds of these women in a way you don’t expect from non fiction. Lina, who is having an affair; Maggie, who was seduced by her teacher as a teen, and Sloane, who has sex with other men while her husband watches.
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Here’s the thing about this book: I thought it was a masterpiece. I have my reservations about some of it - for instance, Taddeo seems fundamentally sceptical of supportive relationships between women, and in general any book that purports to reveal truths about Women’s Desires I take with a grain of salt. Still, overall it was beautiful and complex and viscerally real.
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However. I would also never recommend this book to anyone unless I knew them very well - the nature of the stories here, in combination with the writing style, could make this a really disturbing read.
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❤️ Read it if you like creative nonfiction and stories that render teenage girlhood in a way that makes you ache inside. Maggie’s story in particular really tugged at me.
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🚫 Avoid it if you’re looking for something light or optimistic, and if you’re avoiding stories that deal with rape, eating disorders, adult/minor relationships, and suicidal thoughts. Honestly if you’re avoiding any particular trigger I’d research this book before reading - @the.storygraph has a content warnings section so start there!
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Toxic relationship
bookedbymadeline's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Suicide
snowhitereads's review against another edition
3.0
Continuing with #nonfictionnovember, I’ve read Three Women by Lisa Taddeo.
I had heard amazing things about it, but tried to not look up too much about it so I wouldn’t get my expectations too high.
Three women is a nonfiction book about women and desire.
First of all, this book doesn’t read like nonfiction at all, I had to remind myself constantly that it wasn’t a fiction book. So in that way, it was a pretty enjoyable read.
Other than that however, it was a bit of a letdown for me. The three women were all white, privileged women, so it really lacks on the diversity department. Considering the amount of years the author spent researching, I feel like she could have done better in that regard.
Second of all, for a book about female desire I found that all of the stories were more about women being abused, manipulated and doing everything they can to please men.
Although I admire the women coming forward with their stories, I feel like this book is more about their sex lives than the female desire.
Lastly, this book is very explicit and graphic, and at times it feels a bit gratuitous.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence
Moderate: Drug abuse