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emjay24's review
2.0
This is a memoir by the woman who writes poundy.com which is a blog that I've never read, but is apparently popular. It's very disjointed, and normally I like disjointed memoirs, with little stories from the author's lives, like blogs, but this was disjointed in a not so great way. The ending had no closure or sense of ending. The main character didn't grow on me. I wanted to like this book because it's the type of book i would like, but somehow i just didn't. In the book, the author decides to join weight watchers and starts a blog, which was quite a while ago when they first started, because she has to kind of code each page herself, and calls it a weblog all the time, so it's before the word was even shortened. The blog goes well, her dating doesn't, and her weight watchering goes ok, but it's not the main focus of the book. My favorite part of the book which I really liked was the insert. The insert was color photos of old weight watcher recipe cards from the 70s I think, that she found at her mom or grandmothers house. Those are some gross, weird looking foods! I would say that maybe she was just too unlike me for me to enjoy it, but usually i like memoirs of people who are unlike me as well, so no idea. its not bad though, just not great. if you've read her blog, then obvi you want to read this.
nssutton's review
3.0
I really enjoyed McClure's voice in The Wilder Life and was excited to see my library system has this memoir. It was just serendipity that led me to start reading it the same week I started Weight Watchers. The reasons that led us to start the program were very different, but I really appreciated her views and the discussions of the environment she grew up in.
I liked reading about her participation in the first wave of blogs, where having a website was somewhere in the same grey field as playing online text based games. As if I didn't enjoy her enough already!
I liked reading about her participation in the first wave of blogs, where having a website was somewhere in the same grey field as playing online text based games. As if I didn't enjoy her enough already!
theghostshark's review
5.0
This book is so touching and funny. It's a memoir of sorts I suppose but the author has a way of making even the worst situations comical. The basic idea of the book is about a girl growing up in todays society and being overweight, but it's a lot more than that. One of my favorite books ever.
andsoitgoes's review
3.75
Entertaining memoir of a woman in Chicago working on her body while dating. I think it's most interesting aspect was the time capsule of an early internet age when people were blogging, but not widely using FB and other social mediaIyet. I also hadn't thought of Bally Total Fitness or Weight Watchers in over a decade, but wow! What flashbacks!
bookbrig's review
3.0
Picked this up cause I'd followed, and loved, her blog for ages. Wasn't my favorite memoir type book ever, but it was a quick fun read. I think I like her snarky stuff at Television Without Pity and her blog better than her book length stuff. Maybe. Or maybe I should just read another one of her books.
akmargie's review
3.0
I always feel this is wrong to say about memoir but I wanted it to be funnier. And it didn't have a good ending. I mean it didn't end badly, in fact it was positive. But with memoir in the back of your mind you know the person is real and usually alive. There is no end. With fiction the characters are not real so I accept they end, their story at least. So this ended but it wasn't satisfying. But it reasonated with me since I'm currently trying to lose weight.
deanlaure's review
4.0
Funny and fun to read, and a lot of what she wrote - not about weight loss, but about life and relationships in general - really rang true with me.
fairbanks142's review
5.0
A daring, honest, and humorous look at weight loss I think that we all can relate to.