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imperfectletter85. *Life in the Fat Lane by Cherie Bennett
Young Adult, Fiction, 260 pages
A "popular" high school student has a metabolic disorder that causes her to gain lots of weight.
On the one hand, this is at times a pretty accurate account of what it's like to be a fat woman - the world is against you, people can be nasty and judgmental just because of how you look, and much of life seems off-limits...even if many of the limits are only societal pressure.
On the other hand, the book emphasizes the "good fat" vs "bad fat" myth, for example that it's "ok" for one person to be fat because you know they have a disorder, and that somehow sets them apart from all the other fatties who obviously just eat too much and sit on their butts all day. It's a difficult prejudice to shake, but it would have been nice to see the characters try a little harder.
I was afraid the book would end with the main character losing all the progress she had made, and it nearly did, but overall it wasn't bad. Not recommended to people who are feeling fragile or self-conscious, but potentially recommended to people who don't understand what it's like to be fat in a fat-phobic world.
86. Magician's Ward by Patricia C. Wrede
Young Adult, Historical Fantasy, 288 pages
87. *Spacer and Rat by Margaret Bechard
Young Adult, Science Fiction, 192 pages
87 / 160 books (54%)
49 / 80 *new books (61%)
3 / 7 ^non-fiction (43%)
21532 / 48000 pages. (45%)
Audiobooks: 46h29m
Young Adult, Fiction, 260 pages
A "popular" high school student has a metabolic disorder that causes her to gain lots of weight.
On the one hand, this is at times a pretty accurate account of what it's like to be a fat woman - the world is against you, people can be nasty and judgmental just because of how you look, and much of life seems off-limits...even if many of the limits are only societal pressure.
On the other hand, the book emphasizes the "good fat" vs "bad fat" myth, for example that it's "ok" for one person to be fat because you know they have a disorder, and that somehow sets them apart from all the other fatties who obviously just eat too much and sit on their butts all day. It's a difficult prejudice to shake, but it would have been nice to see the characters try a little harder.
I was afraid the book would end with the main character losing all the progress she had made, and it nearly did, but overall it wasn't bad. Not recommended to people who are feeling fragile or self-conscious, but potentially recommended to people who don't understand what it's like to be fat in a fat-phobic world.
86. Magician's Ward by Patricia C. Wrede
Young Adult, Historical Fantasy, 288 pages
87. *Spacer and Rat by Margaret Bechard
Young Adult, Science Fiction, 192 pages
87 / 160 books (54%)
49 / 80 *new books (61%)
3 / 7 ^non-fiction (43%)
21532 / 48000 pages. (45%)
Audiobooks: 46h29m
