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zjn's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
4.0
I’ve followed Maddy on Instagram for a couple of years and was excited to see this book pop up on NetGalley.
In a book version of her zine series, the author answers questions from Queer women and non-binary people on love, life and different facets of moving through the world as an LGBT+ person. Her advice is heartfelt and clear, drawing on her own personal experiences. I appreciated the use of guest contributors to cover areas that they had more personal knowledge of, real effort has been made here to be intersectional and not to speak over the voices of different groups.
Colourful illustrations throughout add to the collection and make it a real pleasure to read. I’d recommend this book to Queer women and non-binary people, especially those who are either feeling stuck in a rut or who are closeted/ newly out.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
In a book version of her zine series, the author answers questions from Queer women and non-binary people on love, life and different facets of moving through the world as an LGBT+ person. Her advice is heartfelt and clear, drawing on her own personal experiences. I appreciated the use of guest contributors to cover areas that they had more personal knowledge of, real effort has been made here to be intersectional and not to speak over the voices of different groups.
Colourful illustrations throughout add to the collection and make it a real pleasure to read. I’d recommend this book to Queer women and non-binary people, especially those who are either feeling stuck in a rut or who are closeted/ newly out.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
bdorf's review against another edition
2.0
A disappointing read. The advice in general from the author was not very interesting or useful. And also frequently seemed to not even really address what I thought was the central issue of the question. The author at multiple points self deprecatingly mentions they don’t have any real qualifications to be an advice columnist and stumbled into it by accident but like… yeah unfortunately I do agree.
The question askers also all skewed really young (mostly teenagers and early 20s). Maybe some of the problem is that kind of uninteresting questions were picked? The few write ins from people 30+ were almost universally better questions imo, although the advice was still middling.
Also the literal formatting of the physical copy of the book was annoying to me. The question responses were all two columns per page with large font and big margins such that each line had like 3 words for on it. It just made it really difficult to read for me.
The question askers also all skewed really young (mostly teenagers and early 20s). Maybe some of the problem is that kind of uninteresting questions were picked? The few write ins from people 30+ were almost universally better questions imo, although the advice was still middling.
Also the literal formatting of the physical copy of the book was annoying to me. The question responses were all two columns per page with large font and big margins such that each line had like 3 words for on it. It just made it really difficult to read for me.
o4tmeal's review against another edition
3.5
this book was a good quick read for me! although the advice given in the book wasn't meant for me (aside from some nuggets of wisdom that really resonated here and there), i liked it in a way that it felt like i was a teen and poring over advice columns again LOL
phoebefielding's review against another edition
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
4.5
hannahrose_99's review against another edition
4.0
A cute little advice book about navigating the world as a queer woman! Didn’t feel preachy at any points, which I really appreciated!
storytimed's review against another edition
3.0
This is a collection of queer advice columns! Unfortunately, the problems that these queer people have are not chaotic or interesting
I think the very best advice columnists are able to see the issues or dynamics present in their letter-writers' woes, then expand that to address social issues they see in our community as a whole
Askamanager does this very well. Captain Awkward used to, before she got boring
Anyway there was very little insight or like.............. point to this book LOL
I think my ideal advice column would have the storytelling and careful delineation of social dynamics of r/amitheasshole