I thought including them was a good idea, but they would be more useful in a more clearly noticed location. How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual Kindle Edition by Rebecca Burgess (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 150 ratings Kindle 9.00 Read with Our Free App Paperback 18.95 28 Used from 11.60 21 New from 13. The book includes trigger warnings on the copyrights page, but I didn’t notice them until I was finished with the book. Either way, I really enjoyed this book and thought it was a satisfying and informative graphic memoir. But they packed a lot into this book so it might have been too much to also go into autism as well. I’m not asexual, but I am autistic, and I found myself wanting a bit more of a look into how the two overlapped for Burgess, or how they found them to be interconnected. It got across the intense societal pressures to fit in and get into a relationship that is in the background of almost all of our media, as well as broader family/interpersonal pressures. I liked that the book focused on the full scope of how complex life can be and how a bunch of different issues can affect someone deeply without anyone noticing. The art is expressive and full color, which I think in this case adds to the overall package. I’d been following Burgess’s work for a while so was excited to see this book pop up on their Twitter, and it lived up to my hopeful expectations.
It also covers OCD, anxiety, and touches a bit on autism, so it manages to cover a lot of ground in 208 pages. How to Be Ace is both a good coming of age memoir and a great primer of what asexuality is and how the social pressures to have sex and find a romantic partner can be very damaging.
B.C.This is another winner from Jessica Kingsley Publishers, which I’ve become increasingly aware of in the last year as a great specialty publisher. Plus, a very long list of upcoming November book releases you will definitely want to check out! Hope you enjoy. This edition’s Bookish Brain features mini book reviews of Princess Princess Ever After by Kay O’Neill, Burning Girls and Other Stories by Veronica Schanoes, The Times I Knew I Was Gay by Eleanor Crewes, The Heartbeat of Trees by Peter Wohlleben, How to be Ace by Rebecca Burgess, and Everything is Beautiful and I’m Not Afraid by Yao Xiao. Moreover, I proposed to Bryant at the beginning of this week, and he said yes! We have been together nearly five years and I am so excited he is my fiancé now–cheers to a long and glorious engagement! As the semester has proceeded, most of my attention has been on school work, though I have carved out more and more time to read because this time of year compels me to cozy up with a book. Greetings! October has been a month of abundant beauty and life, despite the dying nature of our region’s foliage. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual by Rebecca Burgess: New at the best online.
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