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Body Work by Melissa Febos

justalittlejen's review

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challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

howard's review

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idk why I read this! I'm not a writer at all and I knew from the introduction that the contents of the book most likely would not apply to me and yet I felt compelled to continue anyway.

tayjayne3's review

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informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

Bought this because it was a Melissa Febos book, but didn’t realise it was about writing. Found it interesting and was beautifully written, but for me as someone who doesn’t write a ton anymore, think the subject matter just wasn’t for me. 

bi_n_large's review

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challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.5


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corporalmaladict's review

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4.0

I found this really useful. There are a few stylistic (I think) or language use maybe qualms I have with it, places I was confused by the philosophical/psychological and mixed feelings abt the specificity of some of the political positioning but that's a minority of the books contents. The emotional and personal descriptions of personal narrative are great and there's excellent references and writing advice the whole way through.

taylornredmond's review

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hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

sydmccord's review

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4.0

devoured in one night, haven’t done that in a while.

hannahrose_99's review

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4.0

I would literally sell my soul to be able to write like Melissa Febos. This was such a great read on writing creative nonfiction, specifically when it comes to trauma. I definitely want to own a copy to annotate and refer back to!

lhersheywebb's review

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emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

sarieliza's review

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reflective medium-paced

4.25