A review by jojoreads89
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler

2.0

As a fellow big girl I can appreciate our main character finally learning to love herself and quit letting people treat her like crap and letting peiple see her only as the fat girl. When I was a teen my sister and I would learn or create a dance to a song and perform it in front of my mother; throughout the dance i would keep my eyes on my mother and would notice that she barely ever looked at me, only my sister. Obviously this hurt my feelings, it made me more self conscious and it lowered my self esteem. It didnt help that my step brothers would call me fat when we fought. Eventually in my early to mid twenties i got smart and realized while i do need to loose weight to be healthy, i wasn't going let anyone other than myself and God make me feel that way again because i know who i am as a person and as cheesy as it sounds, the inside does matter more than the outside.
Other than that one thing, this book sucked. ALL of the characters were annoying and most of them selfish, especially virginia; the plot had potential but fell incredibly flat and the entire book was filled with content that didn't add to the story at all. I feel that the thing that happened with the brother was pointless and was added just for dramatic effect and we never got a solid answer on what's going on with the popular girl that was in the bathroom throwing up. I assume she's bulimic but it's never addressed, probably due to the fact that our mc is incredibly self centered. I don't care who you are, if you sense something is wrong with someone you at least TRY to help.
Worst of all, this book doesn't do justice for any fat girl. It's hardly even about the topic of obesity or the adversity a fat person has to overcome. It doesn't even touch the surface of the mental and emotional damage obesity can have on a person.
It's not complete trash but in my opinion this is a waste of time.