Rooney paused. “I think it’s pretty amazing that you haven’t felt peer-pressured into doing anything by now. You haven’t made yourself do anything you didn’t want to do. You haven BBC 100 Women 2023: Who is on the list this year?". BBC News. 23 November 2023 . Retrieved 24 November 2023. Giddings, Alice (17 March 2023). "BookTok authors named for The British Book Awards 2023 shortlists". Metro . Retrieved 21 April 2023.

Pip, Colombian lesbian who feels cursed to fall for straight girls, funniest character, doesn’t like to be called FelipaThat bullying from my ex classmates generated on me a lot of insecurities, because they made me feel like I was a weirdo or a loser for not having kissed anyone by that time. I really believed that there was something wrong with me. At that age, we believe a lot of things that others tell us, so, I was naive and stupid for think that all of those things were true. 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. 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? I mean! THIS!! That was basically me in my teens. I was what people would call a “late bloomer” and I had my first kiss when I was 16 and first real bf when I was 17. Yes, this was considered late in my youth because I had school friends that had their first kiss with 11 or 12. *lol* And I had some crushes but just like Georgia I was totally fine with them just being my crushes. I didn’t feel the need to be with them and never really wanted to end up with them if that makes sense? I only ever got together with boys/girls I knew for a very long time and had a close friendship with before we started dating and a lot of people thought that this was weird. XD I never understood why this felt weird for them and I couldn’t wrap my head around the idea of just having sex with someone for the fun of it without any deep feelings involved. Like how do people even have one-night stands? I could never. Love, mutual respect, trust, that’s what I need in a relationship. Don’t get me wrong, I was always good at innuendos, easy banter and flirting, I still am, but that doesn’t mean I have to actually go through with it with a stranger. It’s more about the intellectual challenge than about actually going through with it.

So who was Oseman’s childhood hero? “Mine is probably Artemi s Fowl because it was my favourite book series when I was younger. I just wanted to be Artemis Fowl. I thought he was the coolest person ever.”The Nominees for the 34th Annual GLAAD Media Awards". GLAAD. 18 January 2023 . Retrieved 27 January 2023. 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. 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.

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.

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Pedersen, Erik; Complex, Vanessa (14 May 2023). "GLAAD Media Awards New York – Complete List: 'Fire Island,' 'Anything's Possible,' 'We're Here,' 'Heartstopper,' Win Big; Honorees Include Maren Morris & Jonathan Van Ness". Deadline . Retrieved 14 May 2023.

Loveless is an ode to friendship and platonic soulmates; this cosy blanket of a novel understandably won the YA Book Prize 2021’ Irish Times a b Littleford, Joshua (24 February 2023). "How Loveless by Alice Oseman helped me discover my aromanticism". Gay Times . Retrieved 5 November 2023. Also,,, Georgia's random ass cousin that was brought into the mix?? What the hell was that??? I'll tell you what it was: another missed opportunity to bring some nuance into the aro/ace discussion in this book (the cousin was aro/ace as well).

This character is portrayed as someone who seems very sex positive but throughout this book we find out that she basically only slept with people as a coping mechanism for her feelings and emotions that she doesn't want to deal with. And I am not saying that this experience can't be valid but, first of all, this book really needed this perspective of sex being something that many people do enjoy and can do without any commitment, and, again, all of this just perpetuated an already harmful stereotype without ever talking about it. Loveless is an ode to friendship and platonic soulmates; this cosy blanket of a novel understandably won the YA Book Prize 2021'Irish Times A strange and eventful first year at university, some interesting new friends, and exploring what it means to be both aromantic and asexual opens her eyes to the less conventional forms of love in her life as she learns that happiness doesn’t rely on you finding your soulmate.