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A review by lattelibrarian
My Mad Fat Diary: A Memoir by Rae Earl
5.0
I never watched the series, so when I saw that it was originally a memoir...y'all know I jumped on it. Rae Earl is utterly hilarious, among poignant, unabashed, and a truly wonderful writer. As she catalogs one of her high school years, she shares with us all the taunts, gossip, and mayhem that surrounds her in both her private life and public life. She attends secret raves, cheers failed diets, and gets utterly pissed at the pubs.
And what a high school year it is! Though our experiences of it are vastly different--her writing this in 1989, and me finishing it in 2012, her being fat, and me just rather average, her living in the UK, and me in the US...it's relatable. It's honest. It's telling. The passages where she bemoans her crushes after listening to music, the poetry she writes...I wonder if modern day Rae Earl is hugely embarrassed by this or if she's learned to say, "fuck it all!"
Either way, she certainly got her last laugh at her high school tormentors with this book and hit tv series...
Overall, this was just laugh-out-loud riotous, and filled with the exact amount of longing and angst that any teenage girl experiences.
Review cross-listed here!
And what a high school year it is! Though our experiences of it are vastly different--her writing this in 1989, and me finishing it in 2012, her being fat, and me just rather average, her living in the UK, and me in the US...it's relatable. It's honest. It's telling. The passages where she bemoans her crushes after listening to music, the poetry she writes...I wonder if modern day Rae Earl is hugely embarrassed by this or if she's learned to say, "fuck it all!"
Either way, she certainly got her last laugh at her high school tormentors with this book and hit tv series...
Overall, this was just laugh-out-loud riotous, and filled with the exact amount of longing and angst that any teenage girl experiences.
Review cross-listed here!