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A review by tashachowdory
Big Bones by Laura Dockrill
5.0
I adored this. I bought this on the recommendation of a blogger I follow on Instagram and Twitter and it was a great suggestion. Essentially it is the story about a fat teenager who lives in London with her dysfunctional family and has just done her GCSEs and is trying to figure out what she wants to do when something terrible happens. As she mentions (several times) she is fat and she's ok with it and wears clothes that she wants to wear as opposed to clothes that society tells her to wear.
I thought the message of the book was what made it great. It didn't excuse the fact that yes, for health purposes she could lose some weight (so could we all though) but the message was that the choice to exercise, the choice to live in a way that makes us stronger is literally that - a choice that we make for our wellbeing, to feel better about ourselves. Not what magazines tell us or social media etc.
If you teenage daughters I 100% recommend this.
I thought the message of the book was what made it great. It didn't excuse the fact that yes, for health purposes she could lose some weight (so could we all though) but the message was that the choice to exercise, the choice to live in a way that makes us stronger is literally that - a choice that we make for our wellbeing, to feel better about ourselves. Not what magazines tell us or social media etc.
If you teenage daughters I 100% recommend this.