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A review by amyl88
Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass by Jes Baker
5.0
Thank you to NetGalley and Perseus Books for providing this ARC to me in exchange for an honest review.
While I have never been subject to public name-calling or harassment, or anything like that (unless it was done behind my back, which hey, entirely possible), I could totally relate to Jes Baker's life. SO many things here are so me, that it's really too personal for me to put out there. Size issues, dad issues, memories of being the fat kid when I wasn't even fat as a kid (I just always heard it from people, mainly just my grandfather, but I wasn't), childfree-ness... even the travel anxiety! I highlighted so many places, but my Kindle just died, so I can't list them all here.
The message of body liberation is such an important one. I don't know if I will ever get there.
I did have some problems with the formatting of the footnotes, especially when they popped up during passages that consisted of a numbered list. That could just be my Kindle, or maybe it just hasn't been formatted correctly yet.
While I have never been subject to public name-calling or harassment, or anything like that (unless it was done behind my back, which hey, entirely possible), I could totally relate to Jes Baker's life. SO many things here are so me, that it's really too personal for me to put out there. Size issues, dad issues, memories of being the fat kid when I wasn't even fat as a kid (I just always heard it from people, mainly just my grandfather, but I wasn't), childfree-ness... even the travel anxiety! I highlighted so many places, but my Kindle just died, so I can't list them all here.
The message of body liberation is such an important one. I don't know if I will ever get there.
I did have some problems with the formatting of the footnotes, especially when they popped up during passages that consisted of a numbered list. That could just be my Kindle, or maybe it just hasn't been formatted correctly yet.