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The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend
by Kody Keplinger
It's SO GOOD omg. It's been a while since I've watched the movie so I didn't remember much. I wish I had read this when it came out. I would've been 23 and much closer in age to the intended audience. But as a 30 something year old lady who was the DUFF in high school, the story still worked.
Bianca is so annoying and so relatable. She represents the internal misogyny we were all raised to create inside ourselves. She projects her own judgments on to other people but stick around to watch her learn her lesson. She also goes through some serious family shit that really hit home for me. So do a lot of the students. But that's the point, right? We never know what other ppl are going thru and we don't have the right to judge anyone's journey. We've all fucked up and made mistakes. Some of us are ready to learn from them. Some of us still need more time to fuck around and find out. It's not our job to decide for anyone but ourselves.
I cannot believe the author was 17 when she wrote this! It's so well paced, entertaining, and provoked a lot of introspection. I'm not inclined to read the rest of the series bc I'm old and I'm not interested in the high school dynamics of every student at Hamilton High but I would have ate them up as a teenager/young adult/new adult.
Bianca is so annoying and so relatable. She represents the internal misogyny we were all raised to create inside ourselves. She projects her own judgments on to other people but stick around to watch her learn her lesson. She also goes through some serious family shit that really hit home for me. So do a lot of the students. But that's the point, right? We never know what other ppl are going thru and we don't have the right to judge anyone's journey. We've all fucked up and made mistakes. Some of us are ready to learn from them. Some of us still need more time to fuck around and find out. It's not our job to decide for anyone but ourselves.
I cannot believe the author was 17 when she wrote this! It's so well paced, entertaining, and provoked a lot of introspection. I'm not inclined to read the rest of the series bc I'm old and I'm not interested in the high school dynamics of every student at Hamilton High but I would have ate them up as a teenager/young adult/new adult.