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4.42 AVERAGE
4.42 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
tense
medium-paced
This book was powerful, heartbreaking, and hopeful. An important read, especially for YA readers and anyone struggling with mental health.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder, Sexual assault
emotional
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder, Sexual assault
I decided to request this book on Netgalley because the cover looked interesting, but I didn't really know what the story was about. As I started reading it I began to fall in love.
The comic is mostly colorless, changing colors only in flashbacks and when certain things need to be highlighted. The art is very flat but the images that are painted and the feelings are all there. I loved this style even though it's SO different from what I normally like. I love how the author talked about certain topics that we don't really see in books or media in general (eating disorders, sexual abuse, suicidal tendencies, sexual exploration, ocd tendencies), the struggles one goes through all one's life after traumatic events, the insecurities. I could see myself in this book in many parts and while it was much longer than what I expected, I'm so glad I picked this up
The comic is mostly colorless, changing colors only in flashbacks and when certain things need to be highlighted. The art is very flat but the images that are painted and the feelings are all there. I loved this style even though it's SO different from what I normally like. I love how the author talked about certain topics that we don't really see in books or media in general (eating disorders, sexual abuse, suicidal tendencies, sexual exploration, ocd tendencies), the struggles one goes through all one's life after traumatic events, the insecurities. I could see myself in this book in many parts and while it was much longer than what I expected, I'm so glad I picked this up
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder, Rape, Sexual assault
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
The size and heft of this book stands in so much contrast to Emily's desire to become nothing, to float away. She does a masterful job of sketching her adult self into the beginning and end of the book so that it is grounded in her purview as an adult using her art to continue to heal her adolescent self. It is meticulous in its documentation of the phases of her eating disorders and the physicality of her changes and that gnawing hunger. I struggled with disordered eating myself in my late teens and early twenties--restricting, binging, purging, controlling exercise--and I felt very close to Green as a result. I had to put a pillow on my lap and sit upright in order to read this book. The size of it is Green's way of saying: this happened to me, I lived, and I'm sharing it with you, so pay attention.
I received an electronic copy of this book from Netgalley in return for an honest review.
This graphic autobiography is outstanding! Katie Green is incredibly honest and real. The emotions in this book are raw and powerful.
Spanning her childhood to adulthood, we follow Katie through her struggles with perfection. This leads to her becoming anorexic. Her continuing struggles with eating disorders, body, dysmorphia, interpersonal relationships, and sexual and emotional abuse,
Her artwork portrays her inner landscape as well as the world around her.
This is not a light, quick read. I was surprised to see it was over 500 pages, but I was drawn in and read it in two sittings.
Definitely worth the time to read. And I look forward to rereading it again later.
This graphic autobiography is outstanding! Katie Green is incredibly honest and real. The emotions in this book are raw and powerful.
Spanning her childhood to adulthood, we follow Katie through her struggles with perfection. This leads to her becoming anorexic. Her continuing struggles with eating disorders, body, dysmorphia, interpersonal relationships, and sexual and emotional abuse,
Her artwork portrays her inner landscape as well as the world around her.
This is not a light, quick read. I was surprised to see it was over 500 pages, but I was drawn in and read it in two sittings.
Definitely worth the time to read. And I look forward to rereading it again later.