lachellerising's reviews
174 reviews

This book started off really fascinated but started to get a bit redundant. I recommended to my mother who found it life-changing. Worth a read but I'd be interested to see this topic addressed once there is more information on epigenetics and ways to health from generational trauma.

One of the most unsatisfying books I’ve finished in awhile. Smith is great at illustrating the world and environment in which her protagonists live but the overall story fell flat.

I thought this was an excellent memoir shedding light into the experience of victims of rape and those who live with obesity. Some passages felt a bit repetitive but overall, Gay does an excellent job at telling her story with a frank vulnerability. It challenges not only the narratives we project onto fat people but also the ways in which we are complicit in a culture that measures our humanity and self-worth by our appearances.

This was a moderately interesting collection of short stories. The most redeeming quality about this book is the way she writes about sexual desire and passion. I thought it was interesting that very few of the protagonists were Black women. Black women writers don’t have to write about only Black women but I think the complexity of being a “difficult” Black women has a lot of room for exploration in literature centering “wild women”

Cute coffee table read for creatives with funky illustrations. Nothing compelling.