Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page

14 reviews

cghegan's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.25

In this incredibly thoughtful and well-written memoir, Elliot Page deliberately meditates and threads together a narrative of pain and the most intense self-discovery. It was a good memoir, a beautifully crafted book, but extremely difficult to read. Page has rendered his agony and self-loathing so well that it’s difficult to sit with and parse with him as he cycles through nonchronological threads, looping over and over through small moments in time to piece together meaning. It is well crafted, a quilt in twenty nine shades of blues, but it is wave after wave of agony and sadness, and moments that linger on joy or relief or self discovery have less focus and the same breath of life that Page can write into his moments of darkness and loss. All this to say: I’m beyond grateful this narrative exists. It is going to save someone’s life. But I advise exercising care when reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Sexual assault, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Physical abuse, Body shaming, Outing, Stalking, Blood, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, and Transphobia

Minor: Bullying

questingnotcoasting's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Sexual harassment, Transphobia, Sexual assault, Homophobia, Dysphoria, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Self harm, Eating disorder, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Pandemic/Epidemic

gabrielle_reads_a_lot's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Transphobia, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Eating disorder

morningsunwildflower's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

2.5

Elliot tells his story in an unchronological order, it makes it hard to follow. 
Make sure you read the TW if you need any, this book contains many of them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Drug use, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Medical content, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Transphobia, and Vomit

eleasereads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Outing, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Suicide, Body shaming, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Transphobia, Medical content, Self harm, Stalking, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

frankiebaxter's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Adored it, lent to multiple friends already. Cathartic for a trans masc person and would be very informative for cis people too

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Torture, Physical abuse, and Stalking

Moderate: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Hate crime

kaseycanread's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Self harm, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts

_jennaalbright_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Deadnaming, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Body shaming, Homophobia, and Transphobia

sammyelliott_'s review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Alcoholism, Deadnaming, Drug use, Dysphoria, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Rape, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Vomit, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Self harm, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Stalking, and Violence

honeybeewitched87's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Homophobia, Medical content, Body shaming, Dysphoria, Biphobia, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Transphobia

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Grief, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Body shaming, Alcohol, Blood, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Cursing, Deadnaming, and Gaslighting