Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In by Kate Kennedy

7 reviews

quasinaut's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.25

This was a fascinating read, in part because Kate Kennedy and I have some shared cultural touchstones from our sheer millennialness, but we are also very different people with very different pop culture interests who are at very different points in our lives now. Stellar wordplay and humor, interspersed with touching personal and/or embarrassing anecdotes. A delight.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility and Mental illness

Moderate: Miscarriage, Body shaming, and Sexism

Minor: Mass/school shootings

bmpicc's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.0

Despite the fact that I was born a hairsbreadth prior to being a millennial, I still feel seen. These essays, complete with random song quotes, TV show references, and the fear that comes with simply being a basic woman in this world, were a gift for my heart.

Kennedy does use the phrase "If I'm being honest" on several occasions, but I am perfectly content to forgive this. After all, these essays are her opinions, her stories, her world.

"My husbands kindness, care, and respect for me made all the difference... Its not that he saved me. I just eventually understood that I was never broken to begin with." 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Miscarriage, and Infertility

jamie_rich's review against another edition

challenging slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Alcohol, Body shaming, and Cursing

sydresnik's review against another edition

lighthearted

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Eating disorder

kaylinvm94's review against another edition

funny reflective slow-paced

3.5

Part memoir (despite saying it's not), part commentary on the formative culture and socializing experienced by many (white, middle class, American) millennial women, full of pop culture and nostalgia. As a younger millennial, a lot of these experiences were spot on, with a couple being a few years ahead of me, but overall a real trip down memory lane framed in the larger social context we were experiencing these things in. The content is interesting but as a whole the book is very long winded and took a long time to get through. The author is clearly a good writer, but the point often gets lost in pun-filled rambling. 

Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martins Press for an advance review copy of this book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility, Miscarriage, Alcohol, Mass/school shootings, and Body shaming

marpaige's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Eating disorder, Body shaming, and Religious bigotry

toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Bullying, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Infertility, Pregnancy, Body shaming, Misogyny, and Mass/school shootings

Moderate: Religious bigotry and Sexual content