Funny, biting, and phenomenal. Anyone who's ever questioned their sexuality will enjoy Jen Winston's beautiful take on the inclusivity of being queer, and what it means when we try and label ourselves by whose in our sheets.

Jen Winston's perspective and insight as a bisexual woman is an important voice in the conversation on gender and sexuality in today's world. The concepts of bisexual greed is constantly reinforced by media and the cultural conversation at large. Jen's witty, personal, and reflective approach to this topic is easily received and a welcome addition to the limited resources of/for bisexual folks.

While there are lines in this that I can easily relate to and understand I just felt like speeding through this book. Which is odd to say since I started it so so so long ago. There were some great conversations on bisexuality and I know it's weird to review such a personal book but I just didn't love this. There are other reviews that will break down some of the issues with this book so much better than I could but I'm glad to be done with this book.

I am sorry for the inconvenience but I don’t have the time to read this anymore and have lost interest in the concept. I believe that it would benefit your book more if I did not skim your book and write a rushed review. Again, I am sorry for the inconvenience.

As someone who had been questioning their sexuality, this book absolutely floored me and was everything I needed to feel validation in myself. Highly highly highly recommend this hilarious and honest book.

A fun, engaging, and poignant collection, Winston details her experiences coming to terms with her bisexuality through a variety of well-written essays. Dropping references to crucial texts within the queer canon alongside internet references for the Terminally Online, the writer easily weaves a personal journey worth the time of any reader, regardless of where they fall on the gender & sexuality spectrums. Not many works focus on bisexuality specifically, so I am grateful to know Winston's story is out here, unapologetic and candid, for those on journeys of their own.

An honest, engaging and often hilarious set of essays. The tone was conversational and the book covered so many issues. I really enjoyed reading Greedy and found it to be the perfect mix of happy and sad personal reflections.

This book had my heart (and my cackle) from the first word... laying in the dark, reading and literally laughing out LOUD (and waking my husband)! It also had me clapping my hands and nodding my head in recognition. I felt so many things, but, most of all, I felt welcomed and understood, even if I couldn't relate to every experience and anecdote.

Greedy made me feel so seen as a recently out bisexual. Some essays struck me more than others but almost every single one had me nodding along in some way. I felt so many of the feelings Jen describes. I really appreciated the trigger warnings at the start of the book and specific essays. This collection. has a very strong and often funny narrative voice. I can see myself reading this over and over again.

I loved this book. I felt seen through the authors writing as well as being given more to think about. I appreciated hearing someone else talk about being bisexual and how it can feel. Especially when we aren’t seen as “queer enough”

A wonderful and empowering read for bisexual people and a must-read for their allies who wish to understand bisexuality more. "Greedy" is funny while conveying many of the painful realities that come with being bisexual in a world which still stigmatizes people who experience sexuality differently than the norm. As a bisexual reader, this book came to me at the perfect time and was a beautiful read that I related to on many levels. I feel that I have been waiting ages for a memoir-style book that discusses issues commonly faced by bisexual people as a result of biphobia, and I am glad to have found what I was looking for in this collection of essays.

4.5 stars.

This is a very enjoyable collection of essays—it’s largely memoir, but we get some cultural criticism and social science in there too. I appreciated Winston’s exploration of bi-erasure and other challenges bisexual people face, while still remaining very aware of her own privilege. Her writing is honest, funny, and tender, and I imagine I’ll be revisiting this book in the future and recommending it to friends.

This is going to sound strange but one of my favorite parts about this book is how much I didn’t relate to a number of the essays in it. Bisexuality is so different for everyone and get a lot of the portrayals in media can either lack nuance entirely or can be painfully stereotypical. And I loved getting to see someone who I related to in many ways but in some ways I didn’t at all.

A lot of these essays gave me a rollercoaster of emotions as Jen discussed tough/emotional topics woven in with a lot of self deprecation, tongue-in-cheek humor, and wit, which was making me laugh but also get a little misty all at once.

I’m grateful that books like these exist because they make so many people feel so seen and represented.

While I ultimately really enjoyed this one, the some of the writing did feel self-indulgent/pretentious.

Read if you like: Memoirs/essays, bi rep, Everybody Else Is Perfect

⚠️TWs: Sexual assault, rape, biphobia, transphobia, eating disorder, fatphobia, homophobia, lesbophobia, sexism

A breezy and insightful look into queerness and society's obsession with the gender binary. The informal tone can get a tad too exhausting by the time you reach the end, but the trip will have been worth it.

I’m thrilled that this exists. That being said , it didn’t quite connect for me. I enjoyed the over-sharing and the internal dialogue stream of conscious style of writing. It definitely made me think and ask questions - which, how great is that!?

This description says it all: "A hilarious and whip-smart collection of essays, offering an intimate look at bisexuality, gender, and, of course, sex." I'm a sucker for any sort of essay on gender and sexuality, and I thoroughly enjoyed this one. It's a book I know I'll be picking up for a few friends and family members this Christmas (and one that ANYBODY can enjoy, whether or not you identify as bisexual).

I very much enjoyed this book! It was great to hear LGBTQ perspective on bisexuality, which is often disregarded or worse. It was entertaining and relatable.

This book was a fun inside look to the inner workings of going through a sexuality crisis and all the times the author allowed comp het to factor into her decisions, even subconsciously. I really enjoyed the instances where the author talked about problematic views she had or lack of education about topics that she then rectifies with giving out a wealth of nuanced takes on various topics. Coming out and experiencing queer relationships when you're older is something I feel is extremely lacking in representation so this was refreshing to read that experience.

While I did enjoy this book, I felt like there was something missing. Of the memoirs I've read so far I don't think this is one of the best ones but it is still pretty good. I would definitely recommend for queer people over the age of 18 to pick this up.

As a lesbian, who used to identify as bisexual my entire life, I found this collection of essays to be incredibly relatable to my younger years. This is a very enjoyable and comforting read. I recommend it to anyone who is willing to read from the bisexual experience.

As a fellow bisexual who wants too much, I really did enjoy this book. It was funny, it was touching, and it always feels good to feel seen, something Wilson expounds on a lot. I related to Wilson's experiences and the book flew by, one of those reads where you never really feel like you're waiting for the end of the book so you can read something else, which I feel too often. I definitely felt while reading that it was easy to connect to Wilson. However, there were things about the book I didn't love. As a gen z/millenial cusp bisexual, some of the quips and references felt a bit *too* BuzzFeed cringe-y to me. Also, I'm generally of the school of thought that art does not have to take on all societal ills to talk about a certain societal ill. But in Greedy, it did feel at times like Wilson was attempting to take on all societal ills, but wasn't fully succeeding. Do I think Greedy is one of those memoirs that I would recommend to everyone, and that I learned incredible life lessons from, and will be a marker in bisexual history? No, probably not. This memoir is from a privileged, white viewpoint set in one of the most expensive cities in the United States, and it certainly reads as such. But, this is an enjoyable memoir that I connected with and related to most of the time, and I have recommended to my friends that I think would enjoy it as well. All in all, 3.5 stars and thank you Atria publishing for giving the arc to read (even though I am admittedly v late, oops)