Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel

7 reviews

readingbrb's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Homophobia

lucylou's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

3.0

Bechdel’s contentious relationship with her mother  made me feel sad and seen, but the amount of psychoanalysis really made this book drag. I found my eyes glazing over a few times with the amount of quotes and references to psychoanalyst Wincott. Loved all the references to Virginia Woolf!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Infidelity

casdelvo's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Sexual content

Moderate: Infidelity and Gaslighting

aardwyrm's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

4.0

Dense, meandering, and full of references to philosophy and psychology, none of which are strikes against but which give this book a very different tone than Fun Home. Most of the allusions happened to click for me, but it might be hard to follow if you weren't a kid who grew up on Dr Seuss's Sleep Book and had just been reading Virginia Woolf.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Vomit, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Lesbophobia

anniefwrites's review

challenging reflective medium-paced

An interesting deep dive into Bechdel’s relationship with her mother. I think it was a bit too cerebral for me, but I also felt like that was the point; Bechdel attempts to think her way through their relationship rather than feel her way through it, which I think I would have preferred. Still, I always love her art style and raw vulnerability. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Infidelity

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Ableism, Cancer, and Vomit

agavemonster's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny slow-paced

4.25

a little disjointed/lacking a thesis statement in the way that Fun Home had one. the conversations between the characters vs. the captions on the comic panel were sometimes completely incongruous. dense on the psychoanalytic/Lacanian jargon too, but I consider that to be a plus....... 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, and Vomit

bradypus's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Sexual content

Moderate: Infidelity and Panic attacks/disorders