Pageboy: A Memoir

Pageboy: A Memoir

2023 • 288 pages

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Average rating3.5

15

ok so like: good for Elliot Page! Sincerely so brave, went through SO much bullshit in Hollywood. So happy for him to be living his best life now.

In terms of the memoir...maybe could have used a lil ghostie writer help! Kinda all over the place! Jumps around a lot chronologically but not even in a way where like...idk, “this part is about my career and this part is about my family and this part is about dating” but just like “here's everything that's happened to me in the order that it occurs to me to tell you.” Which like you could spend some time telling all that to a ghostwriter and they could reorganize it for you.

Also MUCH has been made in the media of a few random short excerpts that make it seem like he's giving a ton of juicy Hollywood gossip here and like honestly not so much.

anyway again good for Elliot and I imagine this book would mean a lot more to trans readers or maybe to people who were more curious about ~a trans experience~ or something idk but for me it just didn't really hit as a book overall.

July 1, 2023Report this review