mesy_mark's reviews
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I am not quite sure what was about this book but I am just not the hugest fan of it.  Our MC Noah, is still known by his girl name.  He is interested in Mothman, a cryptic that he and his trans best friend were interested in.    His friend had died and it was all he had left.  So he writes letters to Mothman as he goes to school, falling behind in work and dead set determined to have Mothman in his science project.  

this is prose poetry and I didn't pick up on that since I listened to the book.   I did like the rep this book had.  ASD rep and LGBT rep, with two characters keeping their identity secret.  Grief is also a theme in this text

It is a well book I just didn't care for it.

This is just surface level even though it states it gets beneath the surface of mental health in teens.  The book is a heavy hitter with depression and anxiety and a touch of PTSD but there is way more than that that a teen could face.  Sure there is mention of bipolar, but not a definition, mention of behavioral problems never defined, other anxiety disorders are not clocked in, and nothing, even a word, on the schizophrenia spectrum disorder is in sight.  It is a very surface level of mental.  It is a quick listen, a little over three hours, but the content is not of any depth.  Some of the suggestions to help MH are all the basics, exercise, a gratitude list, healthy food, and good sleep.  

This book dicuss ways to look into yourself to find happiness in the hectic of life.  It is quick and easy to digest with exercise anecdotal stories come that get a beginning way to think of your purpose and such

 This is a read. I think it tries to show how schizophrenia (SZ) is a complex monster of a disorder and a family happened to have six of twelve children affected by it but it fails. A huge thing it fails at and the large reason for the downvote is that it does nothing to help the stigma that people with SZ are violent. The vast majority of those with SZ are NOT violent. This book also had trouble when having points come together. It read more as fact A, Fact B, on and on versus the emotional pull the facts would be, like the sexual assault the daughters endured by a brother. Since many of the family members are dead to too sick to have a meaningful interview there is a lot of the individual personality versus what was remembered by the healthy and alive. Finally, I wish the book incorporated more of the facts of the time with SZ to compare the methods the brothers had versus the long-term consequences near the end. This book had the potential to be the emotional pull to the way people with sz were treated during that time period and the research that span across that time. Instead, this book showed a highly dysfunctional family where violence was allowed to prosper and affect all members as six came down with SZ. Ingoriing of the problem was there and keeping that sickness under wraps could have contributed just as much to the dysfunction. 

 A remberance from childhood

I first read this book young. Talk of feral children and who's property they are to is some that went over my head.what I did notice that the text changed from simple wording to more complex as Mila became more human.

And now that I have read this as an adult I still enjoy it. This time thinking of Genie a actual wild child who was loved by the researches working with her. And makes me wonder if this case was as inspiration for this book

Overall it is a quick enjoyable read 

This book had some issues and could have used an edit or two.  It is a HAES-focused book in two of the chapters and had some good advice but even with that I didn't feel like it was for me.  As someone with an ED, I just didn't click with what this book was saying.  It could have been the cringe text or how I felt this mainly focuses on those who restrict.

This was dark body horror.  And I was disturbed by the rawness of the text but liked it  Wren splitting into madness while Cathy, her friend snd who is in love with wren, voice is peppered in to give some text.   Wow is all I can say about this book.

 Class has begun

Queer history, where would you learn it? In this book you can. Starting with gay solders in the Greek era to the internet days, for once the focus is all queer. I like learning about a history that was never introduced to me. It's like a whole different world was going on but really it was just straight/his washed I learned.

There is the history of slected people fundamental to the movement and chunks on history queered. A balancing between the two plus images to break up text . Nice simple to understand I liked this casual read. 

I listened to this second edition of the book by the author, which was printed over ten years ago.  This has impacted the text as time has changed on many fronts for the transgender community.  Still, the chance to define terms as one knows of is important to gain access to this text is something done well.  I saw the points of Serano. I am seeing the heightened sexualization of trans women (damned if they dress femme or damned if dressing masc)  To the feminism that wishes to side away from the group.  I see the way the queer or trans+ movement is starting to rise probably as a backlash has been trying to eliminate the diversity for an assimilation into a more conventional box.  As a queer trans man,  I have seen this section of the community grow.

Overall I am impressed with this text because it mainly focuses on the trans women's side maybe in part. After all, trans men can pass as men, femme is highly stigmatized, or a combination of these factors and others.   She writes in a clear understanding way that since jargon was broken down across the first few pages, it was easy to follow her observations and points throughout.

This is amn intresting book where an additional showdown is bestowed upon a person who has committed a crime.  Our MC lost her wife, Bo, when their daughter was born.  The kid now has a showdown since birth.

I listened to this book and it felt like i was listening as if I was being talked to by the MC.  It is a sad book and I didn't quite understand all this dystopian was but still wanted to get to the end of it.