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A review by levendir1021
Pageboy by Elliot Page
3.0
I'm really not sure how to rate a memoir, to be honest because I believe that everyone should be able to tell their story if they want to.
I hadn't heard of Elliot Page until his coming out as trans and then obviously saw the support as well as outrage. What prompted people to make him the target of their hate, I will never understand. What makes people hate trans people so much, I will also never understand. It just makes me sad.
However it did happen and that is why I wanted to read this book. I cannot imagine how hard it must have been to undergo everything in the public eye and this book gave me a small insight.
I want to rate this book for its narrative and style choices alone, as said before, I don't really want to rate someone else's life. The book was interesting and eyeopening though.
I did get VERY confused at the timeline though, sometimes I just had no idea where we were in this story and felt as if I needed to see a physical timeline in order to sort everything in my brain. As a result a lot of the story was more jumbled in my head and made less sense because of it.
Also, I like that Elliot Page narrated it himself. However, the narration style made the entire book very much doom and gloom. Even the positive experiences had a depressive feel about them. Maybe that was intentional, I am not sure.
I hadn't heard of Elliot Page until his coming out as trans and then obviously saw the support as well as outrage. What prompted people to make him the target of their hate, I will never understand. What makes people hate trans people so much, I will also never understand. It just makes me sad.
However it did happen and that is why I wanted to read this book. I cannot imagine how hard it must have been to undergo everything in the public eye and this book gave me a small insight.
I want to rate this book for its narrative and style choices alone, as said before, I don't really want to rate someone else's life. The book was interesting and eyeopening though.
I did get VERY confused at the timeline though, sometimes I just had no idea where we were in this story and felt as if I needed to see a physical timeline in order to sort everything in my brain. As a result a lot of the story was more jumbled in my head and made less sense because of it.
Also, I like that Elliot Page narrated it himself. However, the narration style made the entire book very much doom and gloom. Even the positive experiences had a depressive feel about them. Maybe that was intentional, I am not sure.