Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Les Argonautes by Maggie Nelson

41 reviews

alex_in_wonderland's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

Deeply personal. It almost feels as is you're reading a diary or letter that isn't meant for your eyes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Pregnancy

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Cancer

Minor: Abortion

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

sarapriz's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

moonyreadsbystarlight's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective

4.0

I really liked a lot of this. I enjoyed the style and all the references. I do think it got a little muddled in parts and I have comments about specific passages. But it was interesting overall.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Body shaming, Pedophilia, Racism, and Mass/school shootings

hanoibikingtours's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Pregnancy

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Excrement, and Stalking

Minor: Body shaming, Child death, Miscarriage, Transphobia, and Vomit

elaine707's review against another edition

This book was not for me. A narrative about the woes of pregnancy while dealing with the complexities of gender. While I find the discourse absolutely fascinating and the topic of transsexuality extremely important, I am not in the space to fully immerse myself into the process of pregnancy and birth.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

torismazarine's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

charityc's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Pregnancy

ecross_poppy's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

3.75

So much goodness about queer relationships, motherhood, and our becoming.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Minor: Death of parent

elizabeth_1898's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Pregnancy