sbuzsaki 's review for:

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon

3.0

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3.5 stars. Aubrey is a good writer and the topics discussed are undeniably important. The book is a self described mix of (deeply personal) memoir research and cultural criticism, but I can't help but wonder if they would be stronger separated out into their individual parts (or I'm just not a fan of memoir wrapped in non fiction). Additionally, this is not the books fault but I've already been a long time listener of her podcast and therefore am familiar with these stories and overall cultural critique, so parts of it were repetitive for me, specifically.

(Also silly portmanteaus really irk me, so I wasn't a fan of "thinsecurities" or "thinterrogation") finally some content warnings would have been very welcome??