Pageboy: A Memoir
Ratings59
Average rating3.6
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Ratings59
Average rating3.6
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Book of the Year and Time Magazine Must-Read Book of 2023 Shortlisted for the Goodreads Choice Awards and Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2023 'Powerful' New York Times 'Written by a sensitive soul' Guardian 'Raw, harrowing, and often heartbreaking' LA Times 'Eloquent and enthralling' Washington Post 'Singular' Daily Telegraph Before the world premiere of Juno Elliot Page was on the edge self-discovery. But with Juno's massive success and his dreams coming true, Elliot found himself trapped by the spotlight and the pressure to perform was suffocating him. Until enough was enough. From chasing down secret love affairs to battling body image and working through his difficult childhood, Pageboy is a beautiful, intimate book about searching for ourselves and our place in the world. 'Like listening to a friend ... Now is an excellent time to read this humanizing and well-written memoir' Associated Press 'A profoundly talented writer ... It is a love story of sorts in which the greatest love turns out to be Page's alignment with his truest self' Elizabeth Day - How to Fail 'Page's compassion-inducing account feels vital ... Heartfelt and courageous in its honesty' i
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I don't want this review to reflect his struggles and experiences.
That being said, I had a hard time with the lack of cohesiveness of the narrative. I was really looking forward to listening to the author read his story, but his voice was so monotonous that I think I would have gotten more out of reading the physical book.
I like Elliot Page a lot, I thought the book was only fine. It felt a little all over the place and I had trouble getting my bearings a lot of the time
I'm not going to rate this one.
While Elliot Page certainly has had a particular life and I can appreciate the vulnerability and strength it must have taken to recount his life like that I really struggled with the structure of this book and the constant back and forth in time between his childhood and adulthood so it wasn't a particularly enjoyable reading experience for me.
