Review : Spinning

Spinning by Tillie Walden

Genre: Contemporary, LGBT, Graphic Novel, Sport, Figure Skating,

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Poignant and captivating, Ignatz Award winner Tillie Walden's powerful graphic memoir, Spinning, captures what it's like to come of age, come out, and come to terms with leaving behind everything you used to know.

It was the same every morning. Wake up, grab the ice skates, and head to the rink while the world was still dark.

Weekends were spent in glitter and tights at competitions. Perform. Smile. And do it again.

She was good. She won. And she hated it.

For ten years, figure skating was Tillie Walden's life. She woke before dawn for morning lessons, went straight to group practice after school, and spent weekends competing at ice rinks across the state. It was a central piece of her identity, her safe haven from the stress of school, bullies, and family. But over time, as she switched schools, got into art, and fell in love with her first girlfriend, she began to question how the close-minded world of figure skating fit in with the rest of her life, and whether all the work was worth it given the reality: that she, and her friends on the figure skating team, were nowhere close to Olympic hopefuls. It all led to one question: What was the point?The more Tillie thought about it, the more Tillie realized she'd outgrown her passion--and she finally needed to find her own voice.

I think I first heard this book through a booktuber that is what had drawn me to this book. Plus its a graphic novel so I figured what the heck and decided to pick this book up. Thing is as much as I keep hearing people talk about it I didn't find myself enjoying the book. So what I didn't realize was that this book was a memoir and I'm not into books like that. If I would've known I would'nt had picked this book up. Overall it was okay, maybe two stars for me, I just doing think that this book was for me.