Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

¿Eres mi madre? by Alison Bechdel

9 reviews

summermorning's review against another edition

Go to review page

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0


Expand filter menu Content Warnings

savshelfinger's review against another edition

Go to review page

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5


Expand filter menu Content Warnings

readingbrb's review against another edition

Go to review page

emotional reflective slow-paced

4.25


Expand filter menu Content Warnings

lucylou's review against another edition

Go to review page

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!

Expand filter menu Content Warnings

aardwyrm's review against another edition

Go to review page

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.

Expand filter menu Content Warnings

anniefwrites's review against another edition

Go to review page

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. 

Expand filter menu Content Warnings

snappingbats's review against another edition

Go to review page

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

Dense with psychology/psychiatry references, with a refreshingly large and sometimes obtuse vocabulary compared to some of the stuff I've read recently. I enjoyed its down-to-earth everyday happenings, described in big words, and the intense analyzation of emotions, abuse & neglect, the processing of that, and the decision to move forward in hope. 

Expand filter menu Content Warnings

alainam's review against another edition

Go to review page

dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.0


Expand filter menu Content Warnings

bradypus's review against another edition

Go to review page

emotional reflective slow-paced

Expand filter menu Content Warnings