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This book is loosely based on the life of Margaret Mead. So I hear; I don’t know enough about her to have recognized that on my own, so it wasn’t a distraction to me. It might be if your perspective is different. Also, there are (apparently — again, I didn’t catch them on my own) some pretty elementary factual errors. To me, whatever: what I didn’t know didn’t hurt me, and in some ways this story could have been set anywhere, provided that anywhere was […]
A perfect travel companion
I started this so long ago and am throwing it out there as a last-gasp, “I [kind of] did it!” Somehow I’m both proud of and disappointed in myself re this Cannonball. I hate and fear writing but love reading y’all’s, and thought this would be Good For Me (true), fun (sort of true), and a good way to get some recommendations (oh so true). I’m particularly pleased with the term ‘Ballers and will tell everyone about it forever. But enough about me. I really, […]
“I hate seeing fat girls on TV or in movies, because the only way the world seems to be okay with putting a fat person on camera is if they’re miserable with themselves or if they’re the jolly best friend. Well, I’m neither of those things. ..”
I liked the message behind Dumplin’ a lot. It’s great to see a body positive YA protagonist with sass. I also have a weird obsession with beauty pageants. It seems like this should have been the perfect book for me…but it fell a bit short. The pageant really isn’t a huge part of the story. It’s more about relationships: Will and her mother, Will and her coworker/kinda boyfriend Bo, Will and best friend Ellen. The story isn’t bad by any means, but I really wanted […]