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Mekdela’s 2025 Year in Books
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Mekdela
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Plus-Size: A Memoir of Pop Culture, Fatphobia, and Social Change
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I read this book when I was in the 8th grade, in the throes of clinical depression, and fresh out of a friend group breakup. This was the most difficult year of my life. I am so grateful for the school library and young adult books like this one. Though it's not listed in my memoir, this book helped shape my character. Notable quotes: "One's character is set at an early age. I'd hate to see you sw
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Stellar! I loved this book. I recently reread the entire Hunger Games series after I finished Sunrise on the Reaping. Sunrise was my favorite, so The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes had big shoes to fill. And fill it did! It's now my favorite book of t ...more |
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Spoilers below* I was disappointed by this book. The premise is that one of the four students in the "Bayview Four" is lying and directly involved in Simon's murder. "Pay close attention and you might solve this," the book jacket reads. So I paid clos ...more |
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krista ☽✧'s review
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One of Us Is Lying (One of Us Is Lying, #1):
" One of us is lying aka one of these persons that are all walking highschool drama tropes is lying but we got no clues. so ehm. (view spoiler)"
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"Content warning: Harmful representation of sexuality and mental illness.
This book was such a disappointment because I was REALLY enjoying it up until the last 3rd or so. I seriously thought this would be a 4 or 5 star read. However, upon finishing, I" Read more of this review » |
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Plus-Size: A Memoir of Pop Culture, Fatphobia, and Social Change:
"Plus-Size: A Memoir of Pop Culture, Fatphobia, and Social Change is an incisive, courageous, and deeply necessary examination of how culture shapes and distorts our understanding of bodies, worth, and power.
Mekdela’s essays are both intellectually sh" Read more of this review » |
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| I read this book when I was in the 8th grade, in the throes of clinical depression, and fresh out of a friend group breakup. This was the most difficult year of my life. I am so grateful for the school library and young adult books like this one. Tho ...more | |
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| I noticed that this book had a lot of misogyny in it. Most clearly in the way Lou's Dad berates her, including calling her a "lardass" for no perceptible reason. She even describes herself as small at one point. At her birthday dinner, Lou takes comf ...more | |
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| This book is excellent! Awad captures what it's like to grow up fat so well that it must come from personal experience. I saw parts of myself in main character Lizzie and I also saw scores of other women of all sizes in her journey. So many people ha ...more | |
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