Tillie Walden's Eisner Award winning 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. Skating was a central piece of her identity, her safe haven from the stress of school, bullies, and family. But 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 team, were nowhere close to Olympic hopefuls. The more Tillie thought about it, the more Tillie realized she’d outgrown her passion―and she finally needed to find her own voice.This title has Common Core connections.A New York City Public Library Notable Best Book for TeensA Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2017A 2018 YALSA Great Graphic NovelA 2017 Booklist Youth Editors' Choice
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Spinning
von Tillie Walden
Tillie Walden's Eisner Award winning 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. Skating was a central piece of her identity, her safe haven from the stress of school, bullies, and family. But 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 team, were nowhere close to Olympic hopefuls. The more Tillie thought about it, the more Tillie realized she’d outgrown her passion―and she finally needed to find her own voice.This title has Common Core connections.A New York City Public Library Notable Best Book for TeensA Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2017A 2018 YALSA Great Graphic NovelA 2017 Booklist Youth Editors' Choice
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Rezension von the thing I love most about this Graphic Novel is the art work - it‘s just so stunning and ahhhh <3. Going into this I was really excited about the ice skating aspect bc this whole sport really fascinates me and I never really read a ficitional book about it. And even though the Graphic Novel is about ice skating it‘s more about a feeling and also other things happening in Tillie‘s life. I enjoyed reading it and it somehow made me sad and the homophobia of some people in the Graphic Novel so angry arghhhh Still I doubt I will read it again despite the breath-taking artwork the story was just idk for me personal not satisfying or not as good as I hoped it would be.
Rezension von GabrieleGreat work. I'm a little older than Tillie Walden, but I am familiar with the atmosphere in the competitive sports centers of the 90s/2000s, and Tillie Walden has captured it masterful with a reduced drawing style. The reduced style conveys the impersonality and desolation of these competitive sports centers. I also liked the portrayal of the problem that the high-performance sport, to which one had dedicated life so far, is not abandoned because of injuries but because the inner burning is suddenly extinguished. Though I would have liked to read more about Tillie's outing and the reaction of her parents.