Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

Les Argonautes by Maggie Nelson

8 reviews

lizziaha's review against another edition

3.5

Shockingly theory-heavy for a memoir. For that reason, I suspect that I might have enjoyed it more if I had a physical copy instead of the audiobook. Without the words in front of me, Nelson’s disjointed style made it harder to fit the pieces together on some of the throughlines of the book. But the way she juxtaposed certain experiences (her pregnancy with her partner’s transition; her son’s birth with her mother-in-law’s death) really made the book for me.
And it was nice to read a queer book that really dug into the nuance of queer identity without stopping to explain everything to the cishets. There’s a time and place for that, but sometimes it’s nice to really get into the weeds. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Pregnancy

Moderate: Hate crime, Infertility, Transphobia, and Death of parent

Minor: Racism

antoniak's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

The writing of this book was beautiful and the thoughts refreshing and differentiated. A lot of it went completely over my head though, which made the reading experience slightly frustrating at times 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Terminal illness, Stalking, and Death of parent

Minor: Drug abuse and Eating disorder

garynoplastie's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Deadnaming, Infertility, Transphobia, Medical content, Grief, and Stalking

Minor: Alcoholism

suspicious_salmon's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Pregnancy

Moderate: Infertility, Sexual content, Transphobia, Medical content, Lesbophobia, and Dysphoria

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Deadnaming, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Excrement, Grief, Stalking, and Cultural appropriation

skippyfitzroy's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Stalking

mallory10100's review against another edition

emotional informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

poetic, LGBTQ, memoir 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Homophobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Medical content, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Blood, Vomit, and Alcohol

megg's review against another edition

Ugh I was expecting something akin to stone butch or bechdel, and I could see this was trying to be that, but utterly failing. Don't whine to me about how hard having a partner who wants hrt or top surgery is. And I don't care about ur obscure philosophy references. Completely insufferable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Medical content, and Dysphoria

toastyyslut's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

incredible exploration of gender in relationships and while trying to have children. made me rethink so much about motherhood and queer motherhood.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Vomit, Stalking, Death of parent, and Pregnancy