Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

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Greedy's lifestyle is to be frowned upon - at first it appears to be a typical, disappointing one-dimensional allegory. on the VERY next page jen says that there are "so many ways to be gay" as if she didn't just directly invalidate a way to be gay.

Reading Greedy is like hanging out with your coolest friend--the one who knows where to find the best party in Amsterdam and the most important protest in New York; the one with the wildest stories, the perfect reading suggestions, and hundreds of thousands of Instagram followers. There’s plenty to love and relate to in Greedy: from the form to the content, Winston engages several important conversations on not only bisexuality, but on desire and belonging as a whole. Although Hargreaves wrote many other children's stories, including the Timbuctoo series of twenty-five books, John Mouse, and the Roundy and Squary books, he is best known for his 46 Mr. However he is not pilloried by the other Mr Men (although some cruelty takes place in other stories), and there is no-one to curb his habits.Greedy shows us that being bisexual is about so much more than who you’re sleeping with — it’s about finding stability in a state of flux, and defining yourself on your own terms. More fundamental and yet completely hidden, they are now uncovered in their working environment for the first time. A highly imaginative modern retelling of fairy-tale classic, The Princess and the Pea, and much-loved nursery rhyme, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, with artwork that is both stylishly detailed and incredibly funny.

That said, it's a super readable book, one that I picked up intending to just have a look and then realized "Oh I guess I'm reading this now. Jen’s provocative, laugh-out-loud debut takes us inside her journey of self-discovery, leading us through stories of a childhood “girl crush,” an onerous quest to have a threesome, and an enduring fear of being bad at sex. In practice I don't have much in common with Winston and those experiences-- which hey, cool, the bi+ community is very diverse!I do find the pastor who condemns alcohol in all its forms but lays out a sumptuous feast to be somewhat hypocritical – in a way it is easy to condemn alcohol because of the nature of drunkenness, but food not to the same extent – we all need to eat.