The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures by ND Stevenson
Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or GreyAce byEris Young
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Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:
The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures by ND Stevenson
Endorsement from submitter: "a book about having something in you that wants out, that is never satisfied, that demands you change and change and change"
From N.D. Stevenson, the New York Times bestselling author-illustrator of Nimona, comes a captivating, honest illustrated memoir that finds his turning an important corner in his creative journey—and inviting readers along for the ride.
In a collection of essays and personal mini-comics that span eight years of his young adult life, author-illustrator N.D. Stevenson charts the highs and lows of being a creative human in the world. Whether it’s hearing the wrong name called at his art school graduation ceremony or becoming a National Book Award finalist for his debut graphic novel, Nimona, N.D. captures the little and big moments that make up a real life, with a wit, wisdom, and vulnerability that are all his own.
Nonfiction, graphic novel, memoir
Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace by Eris Young
How do we experience attraction?
What does love mean to us?
When did you realise you were ace?
This is the ace community in their own words.
Drawing upon interviews with a wide range of people across the asexual spectrum, Eris Young is here to take you on an empowering, enriching journey through the rich multitudes of asexual life.
With chapters spanning everything from dating, relationships and sex, to mental and emotional health, family, community and joy, the inspirational stories and personal experiences within these pages speak to aces living and loving in unique ways. Find support amongst the diverse narratives of aces sex-repulsed and sex-favourable, alongside voices exploring what it means to be black and ace, to be queer and ace, or ace and multi-partnered - and use it as a springboard for your own ace growth.
Lots of the work done by asexual writers and activists has been around fighting back against the sexual “maturity narrative” that dictates that you “become an adult” when you have sex, that any intimate relationship must “progress” towards sexuality, and that a person who hasn’t had sex “yet” is somehow naive, immature or innocent. This maturity narrative is often used against asexual people to frame us as naive, childlike or ignorant, to perpetuate the idea that we don’t know our own minds and bodies, and, ultimately, to bar us from fully participating in our own political and social liberation.
-Eris Young, Ace Voices: What It Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Gray-Ace
Queer TBR Pile Review: They/Them/Their: A Guide to Nonbinary & Genderqueer Identities, by Eris Young
Queer TBR Pile Review: They/Them/Their: A Guide to Nonbinary & Genderqueer Identities, by Eris Young
I’ve decided to add a new subsection to my TBR Pile reviews: Queer books. I’m Queer, myself, as well as Autistic, so I choose to use those words to describe myself and my way of categorising books. Don’t like it? Leave.
Or you could stay and learn something?
Anyway, on to the review.
Mum, Dad, don’t read if you don’t want to know some stuff about me.
Paperback, 288 pagesPublished September…
