Reviews tagging 'Abortion'

Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life by Amy Key

6 reviews

kirstym25's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Abortion

amberinpieces's review

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Sexism, Terminal illness, Excrement, Medical content, Abortion, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Gaslighting, and Classism

arayo's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Terminal illness, Grief, and Abortion

Minor: Body shaming, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Pregnancy

bella_cavicchi's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

ARRANGEMENTS IN BLUE was, for lack of a more perfect word, stunning. I repeatedly found myself swept up in a passage, convinced that Keys had taken the words straight from my own brain. I don’t long for romantic love in the same way that she does—that is to say, I love being single and can envision my life without a romantic partner—but I nevertheless found solace in her reckoning with the many ways in which society is (unfairly) shaped around coupledom. I share her desire for a re-centering of life around love, community, and intimacy in their many glorious platonic forms. 

 

If I have one complaint, it’s that the Joni Mitchell framing feels a bit of a stretch. But that is a small gripe in an otherwise impressive prose debut. 

 

I loved, I cried, I now recommend. One to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Body shaming

books_baking_brews's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Abortion, and Pregnancy

minareadsa19e1's review against another edition

sad medium-paced

2.75

I think it started off very strong but if I am honest I was not moved as others by it. At times I felt it went too into the depths of wallowing self-pity about wanting romantic love. Just missed the mark for me.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Toxic relationship, and Abortion