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Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc

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ehmannky's review against another edition

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4.0

This book is honestly more memoir than it is media analysis, with Leduc using popular fairy tales, tropes, the ways that these fairy tales are reproduced in our modern world, to look back on her own life and struggles being in an ableist world with a visible difference. The chapters that used the fairy tales to supplement her personal life story were the most compelling in my opinion, and the ones that focused more on fairy tales and media analysis felt a little bit on the weaker side. Well worth a read or a listen to, especially if you're interested in disability studies and want to go a bit deeper into it all.

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alysereadsbooks's review

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challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

I read this in honor of Disability Pride Month and it did not disappoint. Part essay, part memoir, I loved to hear about the author's experience with cerebral palsy and how fairy tales shaped her childhood, and subliminally, her perceptions of disability. It is a reminder that the stories we tell ourselves and each other do matter and have an impact. Worth a reread as well.

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pipn_t's review against another edition

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reflective medium-paced

4.5

It was interesting to read about the author’s thoughts on fairy tales. Brief but engaging read.
I had some trouble with formatting of the book (it wouldn’t do two columns for me, plus some font changes that I weren’t sure if they were deliberate or in error), but I assume that’s Libby’s fault and not the book’s?

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lunatik's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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danimacuk's review against another edition

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challenging informative reflective medium-paced

2.5

I wanted to like this book, but unfortunately it was pretty disappointing to me.

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puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition

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dark informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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morgan_the_moth's review

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informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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orangegirl22's review

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emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

Leduc provides a great look at fairytales through a lens of disability analysis without an academic approach that makes this an especially accessible text for those newly exploring disability issues. The only reason I wouldn’t give it 5 stars is because the balance between personal experience and analysis seems a bit uneven throughout the book, but I think that reading as opposed to listening would have provided for a better experience on that front.

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lee_noel's review against another edition

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emotional informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

The detailed exploration of how portrayals of people with disabilities in popular media has me looking at the media I consume in a completely new way. What happens when the majority of shows, movies, and books I read feature white, able-bodied, cisheteronormative, neurotypical characters? What happens when I refuse to consume media highlighting these characters? How do I change through these experiences? This book is an excellent choice for exploring the ways we each see the world in part because of what we ingest from popular media. A story is never just a story, after all, and I’m so glad I got Amanda Leduc’s perspective on the dangers of the single story.

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daniellekat's review against another edition

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informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

Part commentary/essay, part memoir. Overall, I think this is a very necessary discussion but I often found the writing repetitive and difficult to follow (but that may just be the format for me, I tend to drift with audiobooks). I think the undertaking for this book was extremely broad and I wished that the author had focused more on her own experiences.

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