Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page

496 reviews

whisper88's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Homophobia, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

imscrem's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

2.5

I appreciate that Elliot Page took the time to write down his story. I listened to the audiobook, and found it difficult at times to understand what time period in his life he was writing from due to the somewhat jumpy narrative.  I didn’t enjoy hearing about his sexual escapades or the many, many times he was sexually abused, but I have to acknowledge that these are true parts of his story and the book would not have been complete without them. It was uncomfortable to hear about who licked what while I rode the subway. Overall, I this book definitely wasn’t what I expected — I thought it would be a more uplifting take on the trans experience, but came out thinking it’s more of a dismal array of all the ways that people can be horrific to someone for being different. I wish the world was kinder. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Blood, Stalking, Lesbophobia, Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Deadnaming, Death, Physical abuse, Medical content, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, and Death of parent

Minor: Vomit, Car accident, and Pandemic/Epidemic

rosie_sloan's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Homophobia and Transphobia

encryptedorchardpest's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

Elliot has a really important story to share. It was however kinda painful to get through, I think made truly worse by having read the audio version. I digress. I think my favorite part was his honest self awareness. For someone who experienced severe amounts of abuse/trauma, it was really interesting to hear him take so much ownership of pain he may have inflicted on others. It's super easy to remain a victim just because you were one. Also as an aside literally transphobia is so stupid I can't comprehend it. Why do people care just leave everyone alone it is not that deep anyways his story is important despite the writing so that is why the 4 cause it's important for it to be read. Also he is a woke king

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Stalking, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

clacksee's review against another edition

dark informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Gaslighting, and Dysphoria

mons278's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Outing, and Gaslighting

erikaraz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

Moving memoir by Elliot Page. Really connected with the experience of growing up in a small Canadian town as a queer person. I really appreciate him sharing his story 💗

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Homophobia, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, and Dysphoria

joisaddler's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual content, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

seulgireads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

Elliot Page didn't use a ghostwriter for his memoir and his writing is decent enough. Yes, on the one hand the tendency toward fragments, unnecessarily detailed descriptions and laboured metaphors was a bit tiresome. On the other, Page's sincere voice is genuinely touching at times.

I didn't read this as a fan, I was interested in this as a memoir by a famous trans man. And while the topic of being trans was obviously present throughout, the book really chronicles an emotional journey from self-denial to self-acceptance and -assertion, not only with regards to queerness and transness but also in relationships of all kinds. The narrative's foregoing of a chronological sequence of events aids in highlighting Page's internal development.

As I should have expected, this book deepened my loathing for all the worst things about of Hollywood (anyone who liked I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy will appreciate this aspect of Pageboy). What I did not expect was Page's recounting of the Halifax Explosion, which, alongside some other digressions into the historical backdrops of the narrative, was my favourite part of the book. I don't see myself ever re-reading this, but it did make me want to pick up more autobiographical works by trans authors.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Transphobia, and Dysphoria

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

charleshasalibrary's review against another edition

It was just too triggering. I hope to go back some day to finish it. His writing voice is great, the content was just too much for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Homophobia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Stalking, Lesbophobia, Outing, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, and Eating disorder