Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page

4 reviews

braveprincess11's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Blood, Eating disorder, Torture, Stalking, Body horror, Sexual assault, Cursing, Child abuse, Medical content, Excrement, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Dysphoria, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, and Bullying

Minor: Self harm, Murder, Alcohol, and Suicidal thoughts

carriepond's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

Pageboy is the memoir of actor Elliot Page. Although it is a celebrity memoir in the sense that it recounts some of his experiences working as an actor, including relationships with fellow actors and all manner of abuse from fellow actors or directors, it is not a sensationalist or "tell-all" type of account. Rather, the touchstone of Page's memoir is the toll that remaining closeted about his sexuality and gender identity had on all aspects of his life, making it difficult to forge meaningful relationships or to ever truly relax within himself, and taking him to some dark places-- self-harm, disordered eating, suicidal ideation.

This book has a lot of really gut-wrenching, sad moments and others that will piss you off. But there are also so many beautiful moments where Page describes being held up by those who loved and supported him over the years and the feeling of ease, euphoria, and completeness that emerged once he stepped into his truth. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Drug abuse, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Self harm, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Sexual assault, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Outing, Torture, Transphobia, Eating disorder, Homophobia, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Deadnaming

julesadventurezone's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Self harm, Sexual content, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Religious bigotry, Violence, Vomit, Dysphoria, Hate crime, Alcohol, Blood, Body shaming, Deadnaming, Excrement, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Child abuse, Drug use, and Mental illness

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Pedophilia, Bullying, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Car accident, Lesbophobia, Murder, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Classism, Torture, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Confinement, Toxic friendship, Cancer, Child death, Drug abuse, War, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

leordanete's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

I picked this up as a queer and genderqueer reader who has always loved Elliot Page and am a huge reader of memoir. I was pleasantly surprised at how good of a writer he is. I loved Page's descriptions and detail. He was raw, open and emotional which I really appreciated. The text was hard to read at times because of the nature of the subject matter, but I really loved this memoir!  

I also think it's really important for straight and cis people to pick up this book and gain more understanding and perspective.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Dysphoria, Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Child death

Moderate: Transphobia