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Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante

6 reviews

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

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

moonytoast's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Sexual content, Grief, and Death

Minor: Suicide attempt

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

vivikasweiven's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abandonment, Body shaming, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Death, Dysphoria, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Outing, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Transphobia

jenny_d's review

challenging emotional funny reflective sad slow-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

5.0

Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) is simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking and I cannot recommend it highly enough. I keep having to remind myself that it's fiction, because it feels very very real. I really like the casual narration style. It's a very smooth read. I will definitely be going back to this book again.
By the way, I also recommend looking up footnote 2 on Google Maps. Gorgeous.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Self harm and Transphobia

Minor: Suicide attempt