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dargan18's review against another edition
3.0
Vulnerable and heartbreaking. Roxane Gay’s story of trauma and living in the world with an “unruly body” left me with a lot to think about. I struggled a bit with the style - it’s broken into short sections and some of it felt repetitive (on purpose, I think, but it just wasn’t my cup of tea). But overall I enjoy this author’s writing style. I keep reading more of her books, after all! Reading her story made a lot more sense of the stories in Difficult Women, which I read a few months ago. The stories in that collection mostly focus on sexual trauma, and many of them seem pulled from/inspired by events in her life.
booksreadbydeepti's review against another edition
5.0
This book is obviously a hard one to stomach bcoz of my past trauma on body, I was one of the people who was put into many diets to fix my weight due to society expectations and health issues, but the book did kinda put few things into perspective though about my old body image issues.
It is obviously a worst case scenario her worse than me- Despite the similar family expectations I was protected in my own way by the too many constant challenges faced by me and due to my surrender to the situations around me, I was too lost in experiencing them and trying to get adjusted to them, I have always set myself to them - bcoz that’s my analogy in facing them.
It has always worked this way, this is the way I cope by facing them in surrender, I have never been dependent on people in these cases, never not even my parents, that’s why it was easier to go through these past few months.
This book reminded me of the past and showed me the innate strength I have always had, that I am much bigger than these body issues of mine - I am beautiful in my own way
It is obviously a worst case scenario her worse than me- Despite the similar family expectations I was protected in my own way by the too many constant challenges faced by me and due to my surrender to the situations around me, I was too lost in experiencing them and trying to get adjusted to them, I have always set myself to them - bcoz that’s my analogy in facing them.
It has always worked this way, this is the way I cope by facing them in surrender, I have never been dependent on people in these cases, never not even my parents, that’s why it was easier to go through these past few months.
This book reminded me of the past and showed me the innate strength I have always had, that I am much bigger than these body issues of mine - I am beautiful in my own way
ribbonreuben's review against another edition
4.0
This book was really necessary and challenging. I took my time through it because I needed to think through my reactions to what the author related in this book, especially how it relates to my work.
librarinurse23's review against another edition
5.0
Listened to the audio book read by the author. It was not at all what I was expecting, but she was honest, funny and open about her struggles and triumphs.
annineamundsen's review against another edition
3.0
"'Inside every overweight woman is the woman she knows she can be'. This is a popular notion. The idea that the fat among us are carrying a thin woman inside. Each time I see this particular commercial I think 'i ate that thin woman and she was delicious but unsatisfying'. And then I think about how fucked up it is to promote this idea that our truest self are thin women, hiding in our fat bodies like imposters, usurpers, illegitimates."
Gay has some really good points, and discusses a lot of important topics. I wasn't really a fan of the short chapters that move from topic to topic. I would have liked longer explorations of one topic before moving to another one.
CW: rape, discussion of fatphobia and internalised fatbhobia, mental illness, eating disorders, racism
Gay has some really good points, and discusses a lot of important topics. I wasn't really a fan of the short chapters that move from topic to topic. I would have liked longer explorations of one topic before moving to another one.
CW: rape, discussion of fatphobia and internalised fatbhobia, mental illness, eating disorders, racism