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¿Eres mi madre? by Alison Bechdel

12 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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aaliyahwalker's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0


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scribblesandsuch's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative reflective tense fast-paced
This is stunning and deeply emotive. It seems ridiculous to say, but beware if you have mummy issues, this Will get you. I don't normally like memoirs, this was excellent. I think it will stick with me for a while. Even if the fixation on psychoanalysis wasn't quite my vibe

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koreanlinda's review against another edition

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I had a hard time processing information on pages. Alison Bechdel cramps each page with stories, information, and images. It's dense, much denser than most graphic novels. 

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lucylou's review against another edition

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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!

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saucy_bookdragon's review against another edition

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dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

A stream of conscious meandering psychoanalysis of Bechdel that mostly focuses on her relationship with her mother and healing. I found it hit a little too close to home for me and my own complicated relationship with my mother and mental health. Though I wish there was more commentary on the psychologist she references rather than just inserting quotes from them.

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loverofeels's review against another edition

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challenging dark reflective slow-paced

4.25

a lot of the psychology stuff went way over my head, but on the whole a very well-crafted, unflinchingly personal memoir. alison bechdel simply does not miss! i recommend this to people who like their graphic novels wordy and dense

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aardwyrm's review against another edition

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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.

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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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aishaalthani's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

4.5


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