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4.46 AVERAGE
4.46 AVERAGE
informative
medium-paced
I have really appreciated Aubrey's work on Maintainence Phase and other podcasts and substacks where she has been a guest. She makes me look at the world with a new lens. Getting more of her life story which she hints at in other spaces was really intimate.
challenging
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
Read this book for a book club. It offers some useful insight and sparked some really thoughtful conversation. I would implore anyone, especially anyone in a straight sized body, to read it.
Required reading! Allow your biases and ingrained beliefs to be challenged by what is presented here. As a straight-size white cis woman reading this book, sometimes it made me uncomfortable! Sometimes it made me feel fucked up! But those thoughts and feelings are necessary to confront all of the things discussed in its pages and actively work to change what the system has taught.
This book is important and relevant food for thought, but I was hoping for more from it... It shares real stigma, heartbreaks, & bias, and introduces a perspective that needs to be shared. However, I hoped for a more nuanced discussion. I wanted to love this book, but the myopic tone made it fall a bit flat.
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
I really struggled reading this book. Not because it’s badly written or boring, but because of my clearly anti-fat bias I need to address. That doesn’t mean this book isn’t worthwhile or unimportant - it’s completely the opposite. However, obviously coming from an American writer, the book is completely rooted in the fat American experience, which is interesting but as someone in the UK I’m eager to find more insight from people closer to home.
How different my self-image would be if I'd been able to read a book like this twenty years ago.
Excellent book. Highly, highly recommend it.
Excellent book. Highly, highly recommend it.
informative
reflective
medium-paced