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The Secret Loves of Geek Girls by Hope Nicholson, Marjorie Liu, Margaret Atwood

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lordcheez's review

4.0

Funny and personal, solid story telling, reminiscent of Love and Rockets.

Like most anthologies some big hits ("A First", "Cherry", "Ghost Stories" , "Fanfiction, F/F, Angst") and some big misses (the phoned in Margaret Atwood comics, the molesty muses comic, the woman who dropped out of her PhD to be with a guy. Oof.). Plus some forgettable filler. Though, for the most part, I found the comics more interesting than the prose. I had trouble picking it back up again if I left off with a prose piece as the next instalment.

Lots of Canadian content which is nice. However it meant there were a lot instances where a contributor would drop a name like something or someone was Kind of a Big Deal and my response was "yeah, never heard of you."

On the whole enjoyable. Glad it exists.

nomefriegues's review

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3.0

This was fun, but I found the writing to just be...fine. I really enjoyed a lot of it, but I definitely liked the comics much better.

sunflowerjess's review

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emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

I liked this even more than The Secret Loves of Geeks. I wish there had been more queer relationships featured in this collection, but overall this was a solid anthology.

plaidpladd's review

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4.0

I really liked this! A good mixture of different styles

robinks's review

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I couldn’t get used to switching between essays and comics, and I wasn’t interested enough in the stories to continue.

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missjeann's review

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-paced

5.0

lemonlime_78's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful medium-paced

3.0

karlycay's review against another edition

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5.0

Ahh what a book. I loved it so much. The contributors are so diverse: LGBQ, trans, poly, asexual, demisexual, you name it, there's a geek girl writing about it. I had to take a break every few essays because I was so emotional. It's really nice to feel understood by something you're reading, but it can be overwhelming when it hits SO close to home. If you call yourself a geek or nerd, there's a story in here for you.