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Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page

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encryptedorchardpest's review against another edition

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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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joisaddler's review against another edition

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emotional sad fast-paced

2.0


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acechemicals's review against another edition

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challenging emotional inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

4.0


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perth_is's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75


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vixenreader's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.25

A structure based on the journey towards self-love, this memoir is deeply poignant, unflinching, and vulnerable, and a honest experience about how wilful ignorance and prejudice ultimately perpetrates the bigotry experienced by the trans community. 

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cheekylaydee's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced
DNF at around 25% Not for me. I wanted to enjoy this book, to learn more about the trans experience but this wasn't it. I'm not taking anything away from the horrendous experiences he's had but there was no deep dive into how these made him feel.

He refers to himself as a boy from the very beginning without any references to his journey of discovery apart from feeling uncomfortable in feminine clothing. I'm pretty sure there is so much more to gender identity than clothing but nothing else is discussed. I wanted to be with him on his journey but he just didn't take me where I wanted to go. 

Of course I can only comment on the section of the book I read but I was unable to continue. I was neither enjoying or learning from the reading experience. It's a shame. 

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phouka's review

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funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.25


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stevia333k's review against another edition

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dark tense slow-paced

4.25

The last 3rd was good, and i say this because the first 2 thirds were violent as hell. I had to learn that he was in a lot of action movies basically in order to handle it & i also could only listen 10 minutes at a time at triple speed. 

Anyways, after a while certain parts about being trans were like oh good my transfemme self isn't alone. 

The relationships though & the shadow work kinda went over my head because I'm aromantic but the workplace accident (because of how wreckless the directors were to black & queer lives) helped connect me to the kind of stuff he meant, so I am thankful he included workplace incidents like that.

Also the memoir isn't told as chronologically, so basically if you're taking notes then I recommend trying to make a character list sort of glossary since the time dimension doesn't sort them, but some segments are like public letters.

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abicaro17's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

2.75

So the actual story is really compelling about heartbreaking but, like most memoirs I read, is jumbled and feels unfinished. This book would have benefited with a chronological order format or at least naming the year each story was in. Page uses ages as time markers and as someone who has no idea how old they are, it was confusing. Page also throws in lots of random info that doesn't contribute to the story, like info about landmarks or anecdotes about childhood musings. The parts of the story that felt relevant and composed, like Page's tumultuous relationship with their dad or growth in relationships, added reflection and complexity that's desperately needed in this book. I wish I liked this more because learning about Elliot Pages story was so engaging (plus I love them!) but, this book was a little too all over the place for my taste. 

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catsbreadbikes's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5


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