Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

44 reviews

theprinceofdenmark's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual violence, Sexism, Rape, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Bullying, Colonisation, Addiction, Gaslighting, Rape, Domestic abuse, Car accident, Classism, and Drug use

Minor: Mental illness

uranaishi's review

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment

Moderate: Sexual violence, Stalking, Animal death, Bullying, Car accident, Death, Sexism, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Rape, and Alcohol

Minor: Infidelity, Excrement, Xenophobia, Animal cruelty, Self harm, Cursing, Drug use, Colonisation, Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Confinement, Classism, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Cancer, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, and Grief

elliya's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

5.0

I thought I had already read this, but I had only read the shorter PDF version.

Wow. Beaton is a gifted storyteller and her precise way of dipping in and out of narrative moments gives just enough insight into poignant and unsettling moments at the oil camps. She is somehow able to build complex characters through only a handful of frames, and to navigate incredibly heavy topics (environmental destruction! Generational unemployment! The destitution of poverty in rural Canada!) in a way that does not overwhelm the narrative. I am in awe of this powerful memoir.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny

Moderate: Rape, Colonisation, and Addiction

Minor: Car accident

claireh6's review

challenging emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Colonisation, Sexual assault, Alcohol, and Addiction

cathannahs's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence and Sexual assault

Minor: Colonisation

kaitzeecee's review

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Colonisation, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Animal death, and Alcoholism

innocentce's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

Migration of people from East Coast to other provinces, is not a new thing  and Kate Beaton shows in her graphic memeoir that is not a simple answer. She writes and shows something most people with debt can relate to being able to pay off debt they will tolerate things that they would not normally do, but everyone has their breaking point.  She shows how circumstances and situations can change people both for the goos and bad. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Death, Colonisation, Car accident, and Addiction

ajaggers324's review

challenging informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Bullying, Sexism, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Colonisation, Death, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Addiction, Excrement, Alcoholism, Stalking, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, and Drug use

borrowmybookjacket's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This is my second reading of Ducks. I'm a long time fan of Beaton and the comics about her life were always interesting. It's fascinating to look into someone else's life. It's not just another world, it's their view of an entirely different world. But tragically many things are still the same 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Sexism, and Misogyny

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Car accident, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Cancer, Rape, Alcohol, Cursing, Body shaming, Grief, and Sexual assault

Minor: Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Classism, Colonisation, Excrement, and Fire/Fire injury

handful_of_frogs's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Rape

Minor: Classism, Death, Car accident, Alcohol, Addiction, Stalking, and Colonisation