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¿Eres mi madre? by Alison Bechdel

11 reviews

summermorning's review against another edition

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

5.0

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dark emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

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francescaastraea's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

This is indeed a comic drama about motherhood. And Virginia Woolf, but no spoilers.
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casdelvo's review against another edition

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emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

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therainbowshelf's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative reflective tense slow-paced

4.0

After years of this being on my TBR, my husband discovered it and really connected with it. Bechdel is even more analytical with this book than the one about her dad, bringing in psychology scholarship to examine her life and relationship with mom. In one panel her therapist suggests her childhood diary was a way to distance herself from what was going on, and I felt like that summarized her style with this book as well.
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mcsuggett's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

This graphic novel was part memoir and part psychology course. This is a book I could definitely reread because I'm sure that there are details I didn't pick up on the first time, and there's plenty more to understand in the psychoanalysis parts. There's a lot of jargon that can be tricky to tread through. The story also jumps back and forth a lot, going from present to past to even farther past to therapy sessions about the present to quotes from psychoanalysts to quotes from Virginia Woolf. I would like to read this again after reading To The Lighthouse.
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anniefwrites's review against another edition

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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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maidenknightbradamant's review against another edition

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adventurous informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

5.0

I went “God I wish I could read Fun Home again but new” and Bechdel said “ok, I gotchu covered.” I still need to read the old DTWOF. 
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snappingbats's review against another edition

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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. 
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jbellomy's review against another edition

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challenging informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

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