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Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante

11 reviews

hazel_oat's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

there are about a dozen books i would say comprise me as a person - books very near and dear to my heart - and this is one of them

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Transphobia, Alcohol, Death, Grief, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Medical content, Physical abuse, Drug use, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Deadnaming and Hate crime

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death

Moderate: Transphobia, Drug use, and Sexual content

Minor: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Murder, Deadnaming, and Outing

danimacuk's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Grief

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, Self harm, Transphobia, and Dysphoria

Minor: Addiction, Suicide, Alcoholism, Death, and Racism

buttermellow's review against another edition

lighthearted slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Grief, and Drug use

Minor: Racism and Confinement

lifelonging's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual content and Drug use

bi_n_large's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Sexual content, Physical abuse, Self harm, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Deadnaming, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Transphobia, Drug use, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Racism

jayisreading's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This was such a unique approach to expressing grief in the form of an encyclopedia dedicated to a friend who passed. This encyclopedia is about a quirky, relatively unknown (fictional) television show that the aforementioned friend, Viv, absolutely adored. It’s an elegy of sorts, with the protagonist, Zelda, discussing various characters from the show but also weaving in her own stories.

It’s heartbreaking to lose a friend, and Zelda doesn’t hide this grief at all. However, she also shares so many moments of joy and tenderness that really uplifted the importance of trans people—especially trans women—just living, loving, being themselves, and embracing each other and themselves.

What I loved that this book shared was an expression of queer love in all its complexities. Zelda’s love was an unrequited one, but I also think it’s so important to highlight the love that comes with friendship as well, which she absolutely had. Furthermore, this book jumps in and out of fiction to draw attention to the preciousness of trans lives that I found utterly beautiful. Plante crafted something so real and breathtaking in all the details and emotions put in such a short book.

As heartbreaking as this book was, I truly appreciated how she found a way to celebrate trans women’s lives. I want nothing more than this world to treasure them and see what joy they bring, which was so wonderfully highlighted in this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Transphobia

Moderate: Self harm, Drug use, and Sexual content

Minor: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Deadnaming, Homophobia, Dysphoria, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

sashafriese's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Ableism, Addiction, Alcohol, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, Grief, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia

boy_topics's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

I loved this book so much. It is so so strange. Truly unlike anything I've ever read. It made me cry of heartbreak and hope. I can't believe it is a novel and not a memoir. The characters are painfully real and made me feel so much. This book is about love above all else. Queer love. Unrequited love. Love lost. Love held on to. So much was captured here in such a particular way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Drug use, Dysphoria, Grief, Sexual content, Suicide, and Transphobia

starla's review

dark hopeful reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, Drug use, Grief, Mental illness, Self harm, and Transphobia

Minor: Deadnaming