Book Review: Radio Silence (Alice Oseman) – Maia and a Little Moore". maiaandalittlemoore.com. Archived from the original on 15 May 2018 . Retrieved 29 July 2016. Waterstones Book of the Year shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 28 October 2022 . Retrieved 28 October 2022. But when her romance plan wreaks havoc amongst her friends, Georgia ends up in her own comedy of errors, and she starts to question why love seems so easy for other people but not for her. With new terms thrown at her - asexual, aromantic - Georgia is more uncertain about her feelings than ever. But the road to this point was not easy. Oseman is in her final year of studying English literature at the University of Durham and she had to fit the writing of Radio Silence around her studies (or, conversely, her studies had to fit around her writing). The finished product went through dozens of drafts. Loveless is a YA book about a young girl who feels different as she has never had a moment of passion or even had butterflies over someone else. She knows all about romance and what she likes, such as a big white wedding. It is just actually having another person to share her life with, or even just kiss that she can’t understand. She doesn’t feel that way about other people. Yes, she cares about others but not in a sexual way.

The fourth novel from the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman, author of Solitaire and the graphic novel series Heartstopper – now a major Netflix series. Georgia is our main character and I hated her :-) She was actually insufferable and I find it ironic that this book is all about strong friendships when Georgia is such an incredibly awful friend. First off, she is constantly judging Rooney (her uni roommate) for enjoying casual sex and going out a lot which is problematic to begin with. Actually, she judges everyone for having sex and being in relationships. Sure, I can understand that she needs to convey this feeling of being different than what society expects of you, but going around and shaming people for their sex/relationship lives is more than unnecessary. What I had the biggest problem with, however, is the way in which she treated one of her best friends, Jason (mild spoiler coming at ya): she actively uses him to experiment with her own feelings and her sexuality even though she knows full well that he has feelings for her. BIG RED FLAG. But platonic friendships are so important, right???? ha ha. The irony. loveless is not the only book about the aromantic and asexual experience to exist, but it has been one of the most anticipated and publicised ones. If you are interested in reading others, I co-wrote an always-updating masterlist of a-spec books that's posted here: Beyond A Bookshelf A-Spec Masterlist. But may I suggest Summer Bird Blue, by Akemi Dawn Bowman, which is another YA contemporary with wonderful a-spec questioning rep, where I saw my own experience reflected so much. omh hello am I reading this right? Am I right in assuming this has an aro-ace heroine? Am I crying because the premise of this book sounds inherently familiar to my life experience? Yes, yes I am. Loveless is an ode to friendship and platonic soulmates; this cosy blanket of a novel understandably won the YA Book Prize 2021’ Irish Times

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Reading about someone going through the exact same thoughts, worries and confusions as I did was ground breaking to me. I can't thank Alice Oseman enough. I will never forget this book. The plot here is simple and predictable but the focus is on Georgia and her group of friends. And that's where this story shines for me. While Georgia took some time to find herself, I love her portrayal of this girl who tries to lose herself in societal parameters because that's what she's seen around her that is to find someone to spend rest of your life with. She is afraid but can't do what her heart doesn't permit her to do. Some help from friends and she accepts that she is aromantic and asexual. so like.......here's the thing. i don't have the words? i knew this book was going to make me feel things but.....damn. wow. okay.

I know that this is YA, but I didn't expect a book about university students to be this silly and juvenile. Like, come on. Don't hit me with 24982587 unnecessary pop culture references to seem quirky but instead focus on actually crafting a good novel and good story arcs with meaningful interactions between the characters. Loveless was none of that. None of the MC's (oftentimes harmful) views and opinions are challenged throughout the course of this novel and she apparently makes up for all her mistakes by dressing up as a Scooby Doo character without ever properly apologizing to the people she hurt. Big no. The fourth novel from the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman – one of the most authentic and talked-about voices in contemporary YA. Let me say that this seems to be a very personal book to Alice Oseman and that it is obviously a very valid experience of being aroace and I won’t take that away from it. However, I despised the way it presented this character’s journey as THE aroace experience and as someone on the aroace spectrum, I felt very misrepresented and like my own experience was being invalidated. Not only do I think this can be harmful to others on the aroace spectrum and questioning folks who have different experiences, but this book also constantly diminishes and dismisses other identities. I’m truly happy to see people feeling fully represented by this main character and this book but it also makes me incredibly uncomfortable to see the disregard of other experiences, and the mistreatment of other lgbtqia identities and characters of colour be completely ignored. Through the characters, the author has done a remarkable job in explaining what asexuality and aromanticism mean and what they represent. I was laughing, crying and cringing (relatable moments, second hand embarassments you know) the whole time I was reading the book!I might just have a brain aneurism at any moment and then I’d be dead, without having fallen in love, without having even figured out who I was and what I wanted."

The fourth novel from the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman – one of the most authentic and talked-about voices in contemporary YA. It was all sinking in. I’d never had a crush on anyone. No boys, no girls, not a single person I had ever met. What did that mean? Georgia has never been in love, never kissed anyone, never even had a crush – but as a fanfic-obsessed romantic she’s sure she’ll find her person one day. As she starts university with her best friends, Pip and Jason, in a whole new town far from home, Georgia’s ready to find romance, and with her outgoing roommate on her side and a place in the Shakespeare Society, her `teenage dream’ is in sight. But when her romance plan wreaks havoc amongst her friends, Georgia ends up in her own comedy of errors, and she starts to question why love seems so easy for other people but not for her. With new terms thrown at her – asexual, aromantic – Georgia is more uncertain about her feelings than ever. Is she destined to remain loveless? Or has she been looking for the wrong thing all along? This wise, warm and witty story of identity and self-acceptance sees Alice Oseman on towering form as Georgia and her friends discover that true love isn’t limited to romance. Loveless by Alice Oseman – eBook Details Our troupe consisted of two star performers who both wanted to be in charge, one girl who threw up every time she acted, and one boy who might possibly be the love of my life. Durham student secures a two-book publishing deal". Durham University. 31 July 2014 . Retrieved 26 January 2021.

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Alice Oseman was born in Chatham, Kent and grew up in a village near Rochester, Kent with her younger brother, William, and attended Rochester Grammar School. [3] [4] She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Durham University in 2016. [5] [6] Career [ edit ] So the final draft wasn’t dramatically different from Oseman’s original idea? “Yeah, it wasn’t like I came up with a story and went ‘I don’t want to do this’. I had this idea that I wanted to write a book about going from school to university and the idea that you don’t have to go to university. That’s the essential concept that I had at the start. And then I kept trying to turn it into a plot and it was the plotting that I found really hard so I didn’t actually start writing it until a few months after Solitaire came out,” she says. “But, like the plans, I just kept restarting. I didn’t start writing what became the real thing until like a year after that.” As I said, this is not an own voices review so I won't judge the aro/ace representation in here. I know many of my GR friends have loved this book and what it represents. But I'm not going to give a lazily crafted, badly written book a good rating just for the rep. I feel like people tend to hype Alice Oseman up to a point where people don‘t even question what she writes anymore – she is not the all-knowing, perfect LGBTQIA+ YA author that the community makes her out to be, which this book made abundantly clear in my opinion. (This might be a problem with a lot of YA fiction and I'm just over it, we're gonna leave it at that for the moment though). British Book Awards 2022 - Full list of nominees". The National Wales. Archived from the original on 13 July 2022 . Retrieved 23 May 2022.

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