Reviews

A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

pyperbleu's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.5

blueberrymilk's review against another edition

challenging reflective fast-paced

4.5

thymiantea's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Genocide, Racism, Suicide, Homophobia, and Mass/school shootings

Moderate: Sexism, Transphobia, Death, Grief, Police brutality, Hate crime, and Violence

kenzielireads's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, Homophobia, Colonisation, and Racism

winterrose527's review against another edition

4.0

I have never read anything in this style and Billy-Ray Belcourt is at once incredibly emotionally nuanced as well as rationally charged. It is written in different styles and is both very academic and deeply personal.

For the most part this was not 'enjoyable' reading. It was raw and informative and uncomfortable but it was deeply deeply beautiful.

In particular, the essay 'Robert' was a lovely and harrowing story of a relationship.

bibliobaggins_'s review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.5

mossybean's review against another edition

I really wanted to be into this, but I think that blending theory with poetry just didn't work for me in the end. I just wanted all the poetry and memoir, and forget the complicated "word salad" as my aunt would say. 

yuhanlin's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

tholmz's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

simplyv375's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

3.25

The writing was a bit hard at times to read through. However the parts that I was able to understand made me think.