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I’m trying to speed through this book because while I love stories about religious trauma and horror, I can already tell that this book is about 100 pages too long. My days as a Nick Cutter stan might be over but also my cognitive rigidity doesn’t allow me to DNF, so onward we go.

This is somehow the most unexpectedly fatphobic book I’ve ever read

I will fistfight every person on my Goodreads feed who doesn’t read this.

Wasted by Marya Hornbacher has been my #1 eating disorder memoir for 24 years but it has finally been usurped.

“Asked again to peel back our scabs, to bare our festering places, hanging our heads over the blood. We were not asked who had cut us, or why the injuries went uncleaned.”

“Ehrenreich wrote evocatively of the strange silence of gyms, a place where people gather together in close quarters but barely speak to one another except to negotiate access to machines. This, she observed, is because the primary relationship at play is not between separate people working out, but between the person working out and themselves as they wish to be, their body double.”
- Naomi Klein