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A review by sarah_thebooknerd
Curves for Days by Laura Moher
Did not finish book. Stopped at 53%.
DNF at 53%. I hate to DNF books that have fat rep in them because we need more not less but I am struggling with reading any ebooks right now that I cannot continue to push myself reading this book when I am not liking it.
Pluses:
- The lottery winning aspect is fun and we all have those kind of what if we win and what we would do with the money.
- I liked the small town and side characters for the post part
- Rosie is starting to come into her own and am loving that part of it.
Downsides:
- Rosie is very insecure in her ability to pull a guy, any guy much less an "attractive" one because she has constantly learned through horrific fat shaming as a child and teen that she is not to be desired. Although, this is not abnormal for fat bodied people to experience, I find it extremely triggering as a fat woman to read this kind of rep throughout a book that is trying to show positive fat rep. Rosie feels that she is less than because of her body size and it is playing into the man feeding her that she is worthy trope and that is going to bug the hell out of me.
- The random fat shaming scene in the diner, I know this exists again, I have been in a fat body for a long time and I have been shamed for sure but to just take it and not push back against the woman drove me up a wall. Is Rosie, right that odds are the woman wouldn't care to know sure, but I am just tired of constantly seeing this be the go to with some fat rep.
- Angus is supposed to be a grump but you have to pull off grumpy vs asshole and here there is not a good pull off for it and as a result I find myself to be very put off by Angus.
-This book brings up a very interesting discussion about SA in the military and I was actually like yes! let's talk about this but it is very focused on women being SA'd in the military and how Angus does not feel that he is prepared as a counselor to be of help to them because he is a man vs his clinical training being helpful? I've seen this play out in therapy side for so long while working with SA survivors that their counselors constantly do not want to help them with SA trauma or bring up gender as the classification of why they would not be good instead of looking at it through the lens of giving the survivor power to decide. If they picked you as their counselor, they knew your gender that you present so why not bring it up more in a conversation to allow space and ensure for safety but also relationship counseling on realizing that it might be helping them to work with someone who is not harmful from the gender they were assaulted by. Also--- men have SUPER high rates of SA in the military close to 50 men are assaulted sexually a DAY in the military it is not just women.
Overall, for me it just comes down to the fat rep not working for me personally given how insecure Rosie is and how re-traumatizing that is for a fat person to read and be in that head space is really what made me put it down.
Pluses:
- The lottery winning aspect is fun and we all have those kind of what if we win and what we would do with the money.
- I liked the small town and side characters for the post part
- Rosie is starting to come into her own and am loving that part of it.
Downsides:
- Rosie is very insecure in her ability to pull a guy, any guy much less an "attractive" one because she has constantly learned through horrific fat shaming as a child and teen that she is not to be desired. Although, this is not abnormal for fat bodied people to experience, I find it extremely triggering as a fat woman to read this kind of rep throughout a book that is trying to show positive fat rep. Rosie feels that she is less than because of her body size and it is playing into the man feeding her that she is worthy trope and that is going to bug the hell out of me.
- The random fat shaming scene in the diner, I know this exists again, I have been in a fat body for a long time and I have been shamed for sure but to just take it and not push back against the woman drove me up a wall. Is Rosie, right that odds are the woman wouldn't care to know sure, but I am just tired of constantly seeing this be the go to with some fat rep.
- Angus is supposed to be a grump but you have to pull off grumpy vs asshole and here there is not a good pull off for it and as a result I find myself to be very put off by Angus.
-This book brings up a very interesting discussion about SA in the military and I was actually like yes! let's talk about this but it is very focused on women being SA'd in the military and how Angus does not feel that he is prepared as a counselor to be of help to them because he is a man vs his clinical training being helpful? I've seen this play out in therapy side for so long while working with SA survivors that their counselors constantly do not want to help them with SA trauma or bring up gender as the classification of why they would not be good instead of looking at it through the lens of giving the survivor power to decide. If they picked you as their counselor, they knew your gender that you present so why not bring it up more in a conversation to allow space and ensure for safety but also relationship counseling on realizing that it might be helping them to work with someone who is not harmful from the gender they were assaulted by. Also--- men have SUPER high rates of SA in the military close to 50 men are assaulted sexually a DAY in the military it is not just women.
Overall, for me it just comes down to the fat rep not working for me personally given how insecure Rosie is and how re-traumatizing that is for a fat person to read and be in that head space is really what made me put it down.