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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

18 reviews

smolfrog's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Misogyny, and Sexism

Moderate: Sexual violence, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Cancer, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, and Stalking

hayleymunro's review

reflective tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Animal death

Moderate: Mental illness, Cancer, Drug abuse, Classism, Gaslighting, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Misogyny, Addiction, Death, and Colonisation

traa's review

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Stalking, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Infidelity

Moderate: Mental illness, Grief, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Car accident, Classism, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Colonisation, Cursing, Drug use, and Gaslighting

Minor: Blood, Body horror, Fatphobia, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Cancer, and Excrement

shays's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

 Content Note: Sexual assault

Ducks makes for a somewhat grim read, dealing as it does with the double whammy of environmental devastation and sexual assault. The entire comic is drawn in greyscale, from the starkly beautiful landscapes of Cape Breton and Northern Alberta to the barren devastation of the oil sands, and even the aurora borealis and a rainbow. Beaton largely elides the first assault with four simple but effective pitch-black panels. The second time, slightly more is shown on page as she depicts herself getting up and walking away from her body while the attack takes place.

Threaded throughout the narrative is the deep longing for home experienced by the many Atlantic Canadians forced to go west in order to find work to support their families. The camps are filled with refugees from the collapsed resource industries of Newfoundland and Cape Breton, be it mining or fishing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Misogyny

Moderate: Alcoholism and Drug abuse

Minor: Cancer

arantzazureads's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I loved this view into an unknown yet known world. It was deeply compelling, a work of darkness infused with humor, facial expressions changing the effect of the words, just an absolute masterpiece. Every one (especially men) should read this book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Misogyny, and Cancer

francestea's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

 So unlike Kate Beaton’s other works, Ducks is a unique and emotional memoir that exceeded all expectations. I started it before bed and then stayed up late to finish it all in one sitting. Please please go read this book and then pass it to someone else. 
** Be sure to check the trigger warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, and Infidelity

Minor: Addiction, Cancer, Police brutality, and Racism

pewter's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

We Cape Bretoners have always had to live in two places for the sake of the almighty dollar, and this story just feels so validating. This deep yearning from home is portrayed lovingly and carefully by Beaton in lyrics and accents, alongside of a deeper fear of losing one's self to a place. Frightening and phenomenal - this is a must read for anyone who's had to leave home, but also for those of us who have empty seats at the table. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment and Sexual assault

Moderate: Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

Minor: Addiction, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Cancer, Cursing, Gaslighting, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Mental illness, Colonisation, Stalking, Rape, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Bullying, Car accident, and Grief

mycelial's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

This comic holds complexity beautifully. Beaton holds many polarities without letting go of the complexity inherent in each range. She asks what we owe to each other, and how we survive the harm done to us and the world around us without turning around and replicating that harm. A masterful piece of work.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment

Moderate: Bullying, Car accident, Death, Rape, and Animal death

Minor: Blood, Alcohol, Cancer, Stalking, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Dementia, and Infidelity

jenthebookgeek's review

adventurous challenging emotional informative fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Classism, Colonisation, Alcohol, Body shaming, Cancer, Cursing, Sexism, Drug use, Car accident, Rape, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, and Infidelity

readwithchar's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Misogyny

Moderate: Drug use, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Cancer