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Does This Book Make Me Look Fat? Stories About Loving and Loathing Your Body Marissa Walsh 9780547014968 Books

A pretty uneven collection of short stories. Might be worth it for a young teenager (high school or middle school) to check out.

Pros: Some of these stories were really great. I don't have the book in front of me, but the one from Ellen Hopkins and the woman who wrote "The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things" was pretty great. The first story gives one of the few male perspectives and is hilarious. Most of these stories attempt to create pretty healthy attitudes toward self-acceptance.

Cons: A few of them use too many cliched or trite representations of attitudes towards body issues. I didn't like the stories that made caricatures of the "popular or pretty" people without showing them any empathy. In addition, some of the conclusions were a bit too pat, like the story of how a young adult male realizes he "gave his sister an eating disorder with one comment" (not how it works).


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Does This Book Make Me Look Fat? Stories About Loving and Loathing Your Body Marissa Walsh 9780547014968 Books Reviews

The title is amazing, and the essays and stories inside don't disappoint either. Very well written, honest and relevent. I enjoyed the variety of topics covered, there is definitely something for everyone to relate to.

Kate Whitfield, author of The Empowered Gal's 9 Life Lessons Keys, Tips, Strategies, Advice & Everything You Need to Know to be a Confident, Successful, in Control Gal
With fourteen stories and personal essays written by popular authors such as Sara Zarr, Carolyn Mackler, Ellen Hopkins, and more, this book is quite amazing. The stories all focus on the weight and body image issues that most everyone has at one point in their life.

Whether it's feeling overweight or thinking you're too skinny, how you feel that your breasts are either way too small or way too big, everyone has issues with their bodies.

Not much else I can really say about this book. I actually loved each and every one of the stories, and that really surprised me. I thought at least one or two of them I probably wouldn't end up liking.

I'd recommend DOES THIS BOOK MAKE ME LOOK FAT? to anyone who has issues with their body and even to people who don't. Every single story is just written so well. I didn't want to finish the last one when I got to it.

The only thing wrong with this book it should have been longer!

Reviewed by Breanna F.
A pretty uneven collection of short stories. Might be worth it for a young teenager (high school or middle school) to check out.

Pros Some of these stories were really great. I don't have the book in front of me, but the one from Ellen Hopkins and the woman who wrote "The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things" was pretty great. The first story gives one of the few male perspectives and is hilarious. Most of these stories attempt to create pretty healthy attitudes toward self-acceptance.

Cons A few of them use too many cliched or trite representations of attitudes towards body issues. I didn't like the stories that made caricatures of the "popular or pretty" people without showing them any empathy. In addition, some of the conclusions were a bit too pat, like the story of how a young adult male realizes he "gave his sister an eating disorder with one comment" (not how it works).