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Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin
4 reviews
savvy999's review against another edition
challenging
dark
funny
informative
medium-paced
3.25
For a preoccupation with dead girls, it seems to be more focused on the living than anything which is understandable given the direction it ends up going. pointed genre and literary criticism but seems to lag around the edges, with the through line never as tight as it aught to be. only scratches the surface when it comes to its “thesis” . Dwells long in pop culture and Joan Didion, and although illuminating and expressing some of my concerns with Didion’s mystique and deifying deftly; feels on occasion more like reliance than interrogation. The writing is clear and compelling but maybe purposefully scattered. Definitely a work to revisit at a different time.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Racism, and Toxic friendship
thewoodlandbookshelf's review
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, and Murder
yeojinqueen's review
adventurous
informative
fast-paced
3.5
would have greatly benefited from having more of the promised topic, analysis of the obsession with “dead girls” which trailed off after doing so great in the first few chapters
Content Warnings
Moderate: Eating disorder, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Pregnancy, and Alcohol
graves's review
reflective
slow-paced
2.75
Reads like a journal entry where the author desperately wanted to fill the pages but had very little to actually say.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Ableism
Minor: Racism
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