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A review by elerireads
Ending the Pursuit: Asexuality, Aromanticism, and Agender Identity by Michael Paramo
hopeful
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
3.0
This was alright. Made some interesting points about the way the terms 'asexual', 'aromantic' and 'agender' only exist in the context of and in opposition to violently imposed colonial cisheteropatriarchal norms.
It wasn't particularly well written though. Not terrible! Just like the author was trying a bit too hard to sound erudite and academic so it came out with a bit of a quality of having been written by someone who swallowed a thesaurus. Plus a few grammatical niggles - not necessarily errors just some ugly split infinitives, using 'how' where 'that' would have been more natural/accurate. Anyway, all combined to make it a bit clunky and not really having a natural voice or flow, which made it more effort to read than it could have been.
My biggest issue with reading this book though was that it wasn't what I was expecting. Obviously that's more of a me problem - looking at the cover I don't think there's anything that misled me. I think I just had a strong idea of how I would write a book with a title like this so that's what I was expecting 🤷♂️. Anyway, I just really wanted it to be looking at the intersection of all the identities and how they interact with one another. And it didn't really - just looked at them separately under the same type of framing. Anyway. Guess that's for another book.
It wasn't particularly well written though. Not terrible! Just like the author was trying a bit too hard to sound erudite and academic so it came out with a bit of a quality of having been written by someone who swallowed a thesaurus. Plus a few grammatical niggles - not necessarily errors just some ugly split infinitives, using 'how' where 'that' would have been more natural/accurate. Anyway, all combined to make it a bit clunky and not really having a natural voice or flow, which made it more effort to read than it could have been.
My biggest issue with reading this book though was that it wasn't what I was expecting. Obviously that's more of a me problem - looking at the cover I don't think there's anything that misled me. I think I just had a strong idea of how I would write a book with a title like this so that's what I was expecting 🤷♂️. Anyway, I just really wanted it to be looking at the intersection of all the identities and how they interact with one another. And it didn't really - just looked at them separately under the same type of framing. Anyway. Guess that's for another book.