A unique coming-of-age novel with diverse characters that meets the criteria for a fat-positive novel.
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Tag: adolescents
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl #BookReview
When you erase the fat and leave the girl, you’re still not getting much person.
Living with a Wild God #BookReview #Journalism #Memoir
To whom would this book appeal other than Ehrenreich herself?
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self #bookreview #readwomen @daniellevalore
Evans’s prose has depth and variety…
Fat Girl, Terrestrial #readwomen #bookreview @FCtwo
Stories are the only way we can make that connection to a spiritual realm…
Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher #20BooksofSummer #LGBT @KensingtonBooks #ReadWomen
“But my grades — my brains –” Bobby struggled to express herself. “A teacher has to be smart.”
Rainbow Valley #20BooksofSummer #YAlit #AnneofGreenGables
She almost died of “pewmonia,” for instance.
The Tide King #BookReview #MagicalRealism #war @MichalskiJen @BlackLawrence
Michalski has a great talent…
Anne of Windy Poplars #20BooksofSummer #AnneofGreenGables #ReadWomen
L.M.M. uses the titular character sparingly, and instead gives readers a short story collection that will leave them frustrated.
Anne of Avonlea #20BooksofSummer #AnneofGreenGables #ReadWomen
“The other evening Mrs. Sloane was reading a newspaper and she said to Mr. Sloane, ‘I see here that another octogenarian has just died. What IS an octogenarian, Peter?’ And Mr. Sloane said he didn’t know, but they must be very sickly creatures, for you never heard tell of them but they were dying.”
