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3.88 AVERAGE
3.88 AVERAGE
Oh how I feel so seen!! I wish I would have had this book when I was discovering my sexuality but I am glad I got to read it now. Thank you Jen for this powerful memoir!
The way Jen writes this book makes you feel like a friend sitting on their couch enjoying a shared bottle of wine and some cheap gas station snacks (the best kind). She makes you question your own views and helps you understand that it is okay to forever be on a path of confusion and growth. To help you accept yourself while feeling less lonely in a world full of people. This book. This book. This BOOK.
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
This felt like I was reading an unnecessarily long Buzzfeed article that quoted a ton of activists and other authors but added nothing to the conversation. In general, it was like reading one giant, self deprecating back and forth of "am I or am I not gay" instead of adding any actual insight into the space where bisexual women don't fit.
I got way too excited about this book and maybe that’s why I’m so disappointed by it. The first chapter is an interesting, well researched piece about how bisexual people are portrayed across society/media, queer history, and statistics. It got me excited to dig deeper into this topic that I hold very dear to my heart. However, the rest of this book is vignettes with oversaturated millennial humor and an obscene amount of useless footnotes (“If you’re reading this, please go to my Instagram and comment something nice about this book”. Are you serious?)
My biggest beef is with the middle section of the book; the first section was fun, flirty, and validating, but I don’t feel like the rest of the book held that cadence. The author’s style was just straight up frustrating to read and was very reminiscent buzzfeed. I just thought the book was going to be something different than it was. If I went into it with a different mindset I might’ve enjoyed it more but I just felt let down. Oh well, happens to the best of us (and will look cool on my bookshelf)
My biggest beef is with the middle section of the book; the first section was fun, flirty, and validating, but I don’t feel like the rest of the book held that cadence. The author’s style was just straight up frustrating to read and was very reminiscent buzzfeed. I just thought the book was going to be something different than it was. If I went into it with a different mindset I might’ve enjoyed it more but I just felt let down. Oh well, happens to the best of us (and will look cool on my bookshelf)
i have nothing else to say besides Jen Winston is now my mother. i kiss the floor she walks on. she is god. im done now. thank you and goodnight.
It didn’t speak to me but may be perfect for someone younger and struggling. This bi woman just couldn’t relate to much in this book.
Kind of wish I didn't waste my time on this book. The only good thing was that I listened to it on audio and got through it quickly. I don't like rating someone's memoir/life experience poorly because we all live our own experience. But....this author came off as whiny, self-fish and so entitled it was beyond irritating. Read/listen at your own risk.
What a validating, affirming, wonderful book. I can’t express my gratitude for this honest, authentic representation. And while I maybe don’t relate to every essay (like, woah I’m definitely not as sexual as Jen), I absolutely relate to the self discovery — the questioning and confusion and empowerment and freedom in being bisexual. I adored the laugh-out-loud humor on every page, as well as the acute awareness of and commitment to address cis, white privilege. This book will stick with me for a very long time as an important reminder that your identity is your identity; no one can erase it or take it from you.
Hilarious and so validating, a must read for all bisexuals