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Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family by Rabia Chaudry
20 reviews
leweylibrary's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
This book makes me hungry. It also makes me wish I would've grown up eating not only more diverse foods but also eating healthier foods and learning how to cook. It's wild how even though our lives, families, and cultures are so different we have things in common like enjoying junk food and not being taught how to cook and finding it hard to work out and eat right when there's so much stress and so much going on.
I appreciate that even though she did end the book thinner, it wasn't an unhealthy or preachy kind of thinner. She finally found what made her happy and feel empowered and in control with the caveat that everyone is different and we all want to improve no matter where we're at. I also just really enjoyed learning so much about Pakistani culture and food.
Also how wild that she knows Shaun T?? Why is that something that stood out so vividly to me 😅😂
I appreciate that even though she did end the book thinner, it wasn't an unhealthy or preachy kind of thinner. She finally found what made her happy and feel empowered and in control with the caveat that everyone is different and we all want to improve no matter where we're at. I also just really enjoyed learning so much about Pakistani culture and food.
Also how wild that she knows Shaun T?? Why is that something that stood out so vividly to me 😅😂
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia and Body shaming
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Grief, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Misogyny, and Physical abuse
Minor: Colonisation, Pregnancy, Medical content, Islamophobia, and Eating disorder
casandra_lovealwaysbooks's review
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming and Fatphobia
Moderate: Domestic abuse
miss__manga__'s review
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
I really enjoyed the audio book of this. Rabia has such a lovely voice!
It’s important to note that this memoir could be incredibly triggering to those who may be struggling with food or weight. There are many instances of fat phobia and self depreciating talk.
Overall, I really liked the writing style and I felt the descriptions of food and craving were wonderful. I loved the descriptions of her family, and how I learnt a lot about Pakistan through this book.
It’s important to note that this memoir could be incredibly triggering to those who may be struggling with food or weight. There are many instances of fat phobia and self depreciating talk.
Overall, I really liked the writing style and I felt the descriptions of food and craving were wonderful. I loved the descriptions of her family, and how I learnt a lot about Pakistan through this book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Fatphobia
Moderate: Classism, Medical content, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, and Animal death
Minor: Bullying, Colonisation, Deportation, Cancer, Car accident, Death, and Domestic abuse
alittlebitheather's review against another edition
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
I appreciate when an actual fat person talks about what it's like living as a fat person. This book spoke to me as someone who is fat and struggled with their weight their entire life. Rabia Chaudry speaks on a wide range of experiences, from shame eating to realizing she was the biggest person in the room, to that feeling of the waistline of your pants gradually getting tighter, but not being able to stop eating. She also discusses her relationship with food as an immigrant from Pakistan, and how her family's chasing of the American Dream correlated to her weight gain and relationship with food. Fatty Fatty Boom Boom is honest, real, and relatable. If you know a fat person, are a fat person, or love a fat person, read it immediately.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Domestic abuse
kassiereadsbooks's review
funny
reflective
medium-paced
2.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming and Fatphobia
Moderate: Animal death, Eating disorder, and Addiction
Minor: Domestic abuse and Physical abuse
I didn’t know anything about Rabia Chaudry going into this book (I didn’t listen to Serial and I hadn’t heard of Adnan’s case). I left this book thinking she’s not only extremely funny but also brilliant at what she does, however I feel like I have to leave this review because it’s what I needed before I picked this book up. Chaudry dedicates this book to “all those who have spent their lives being judged — and judging themselves — for their weight, who have struggled between deprivation and depravity, and who deserve like anyone else to live an abundant life full of great food.” I feel my issues with this book are summed up with the direct contrast between that dedication and the final sentence in the book: “But I am and will likely remain, by the standards of many, fat. But that’s okay, because I’m not that fat.” The pros: I loved Chaudry’s narrative voice and her stories of Pakistan. I listened to this on audio and I really loved my reading experience. The cons: I felt this book did not “show us how freeing it is to finally make peace with the body we have” as the inside cover states, but reiterates the stance that the author is finally okay with her “not that fat” body and she has achieved being not that fat through lots and lots of diet and exercise (6 days a week, one “cheat meal”), lots of money spent on personal trainers, as well as two surgeries. Again, I left this book really loving the narration and wanting to know so much more about Chaudry’s work, however the marketing surrounding the book and the some of its stances invited criticism given the nature of the subject matter. TW: uses specific weight numbers, ascribes food with morality, descriptions of binge eating, EDs, and the o-wordelchiang78's review
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder
Minor: Domestic abuse
grise's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, and Eating disorder
Moderate: Domestic abuse
Minor: Pregnancy
emilylovesgoodbooks's review
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Fatphobia, Body shaming, and Domestic abuse
Minor: Animal death
rmgilchrist's review
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Body shaming
Minor: Domestic abuse
katiemack's review
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
I received an eARC of this book from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
I, like many readers, know Rabia Chaudry from her involvement with the Serial-famous case of Adnan Syed. But she is highly successful in her own right, and I enjoyed not only reading about her career path, but also her life growing up in Pakistan and the U.S.--and how much food played into it.
Along with a compelling narrative drive, Chaudry's descriptions of food are the highlights of this book. My mouth watered any time she painstakingly described how her mom cooked the perfect shorba or the journeys she and her uncles went on to get pulao and pakoray. (It made me long for my mother-in-law's cooking.) Equally as visceral are the times she describes her binging American fast food and treats and the hold it had on her.
There are obvious TWs for eating disorders and fat-shaming here as well as one for domestic abuse--Chaudry's first marriage is a toxic one that she spends little time on, for good reason--but her memoir is unflinching and feels incredibly relatable.
I, like many readers, know Rabia Chaudry from her involvement with the Serial-famous case of Adnan Syed. But she is highly successful in her own right, and I enjoyed not only reading about her career path, but also her life growing up in Pakistan and the U.S.--and how much food played into it.
Along with a compelling narrative drive, Chaudry's descriptions of food are the highlights of this book. My mouth watered any time she painstakingly described how her mom cooked the perfect shorba or the journeys she and her uncles went on to get pulao and pakoray. (It made me long for my mother-in-law's cooking.) Equally as visceral are the times she describes her binging American fast food and treats and the hold it had on her.
There are obvious TWs for eating disorders and fat-shaming here as well as one for domestic abuse--Chaudry's first marriage is a toxic one that she spends little time on, for good reason--but her memoir is unflinching and feels incredibly relatable.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia and Eating disorder
Moderate: Domestic abuse
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