A review by readingpisces
Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World by Sarah E. Rowley, Robyn Ochs
3.0
This book came out in 2009 and is a collection of essays about what it’s like to be bisexual. Each chapter asks a specific question in regards to it and shows an array of different view points. In general I don’t know what I expected this book going in but I enjoyed it. One general thing that I found to be hindering my enjoyment were the many different points of view. In the one hand I loved to read about them on the other hand it did become a little repetitive from time to time, which is understandable since all had been given the same prompts.
Most of those view points I found to be interesting and engaging. Some had me wavering of, some people I absolutely couldn’t connect with and found to be off putting. Is that a bad thing? I don’t think so. It just shows that everyone has different perceptions and that sometimes you meet or read about people in that case that for some reason you don’t end up enjoying your time with.
I did really appreciate seeing the essays from people outside of the US since I am one of them. Some of the terminology that was being used is considered to be very outdated at this point in time, once again nothing about this is negative, I just feel like it could be good for some people to know these things before going in. I don’t want anyone to feel wrong about it.
Lastly I just want to close of this review by highlighting my favorite essay in this collection. Interestingly enough it turnt out to be the first one that the collection starts of with. It made me feel a lot and I certainly teared up reading it.
Most of those view points I found to be interesting and engaging. Some had me wavering of, some people I absolutely couldn’t connect with and found to be off putting. Is that a bad thing? I don’t think so. It just shows that everyone has different perceptions and that sometimes you meet or read about people in that case that for some reason you don’t end up enjoying your time with.
I did really appreciate seeing the essays from people outside of the US since I am one of them. Some of the terminology that was being used is considered to be very outdated at this point in time, once again nothing about this is negative, I just feel like it could be good for some people to know these things before going in. I don’t want anyone to feel wrong about it.
Lastly I just want to close of this review by highlighting my favorite essay in this collection. Interestingly enough it turnt out to be the first one that the collection starts of with. It made me feel a lot and I certainly teared up reading it.