Also -- "I wrote for 20 minutes and then took a break to nap or listen to my romance audiobook (Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail, it’s fantastic)." YESSS!! These books make the best sickday activities :)
So glad to hear you’re on the mend! I’m excited to read Rest is Resistance and am intrigued by You Just Need to Lose Weight as well. I had heard of her podcast but somehow got the impression that it was actually about staying fit (or whatever other euphemism we use these days to mean skinny and conventionally attractive) and therefore, didn’t even bother to look into it 🤦♀️
Maintenance Phase is amazing and the total opposite—about why "maintaining" an "ideal weight" is bullshit and we should tear the system down! (Honestly, though, it's hugely made an impact on me and my own self-image and internalized fatphobia and I highly recommend it.)
I am on my local library's waitlist for Rest is Resistance. I first heard about it from NPR's life kit podcast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCAShFn6Fec) and now I am even more excited to read it.
It's so good! I feel like I've just started to scratch the surface with it. Definitely one of those books that I'll come back to again and again, and that is going to lead to lifetime learning/exploring/thinking.
Yeah, I can see that, both set in Queens, and the setting is really vivid and important in both. Roses is more concentrated, and seems more of a traditional, linear narrative. I really enjoyed Brown Girls, too, though.
Hello! I would be interested in There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill her Neighbor's Baby. I don't come across nearly enough Russian women writers.
Also -- "I wrote for 20 minutes and then took a break to nap or listen to my romance audiobook (Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail, it’s fantastic)." YESSS!! These books make the best sickday activities :)
Totally. It really got me through when literally all I could do was lie in the dark and listen.
So glad to hear you’re on the mend! I’m excited to read Rest is Resistance and am intrigued by You Just Need to Lose Weight as well. I had heard of her podcast but somehow got the impression that it was actually about staying fit (or whatever other euphemism we use these days to mean skinny and conventionally attractive) and therefore, didn’t even bother to look into it 🤦♀️
Maintenance Phase is amazing and the total opposite—about why "maintaining" an "ideal weight" is bullshit and we should tear the system down! (Honestly, though, it's hugely made an impact on me and my own self-image and internalized fatphobia and I highly recommend it.)
Thanks, Rosalynn! And yeah, while I haven't listened to Aubrey Gordon's podcast, her work is definitely not about staying fit (the total opposite)!
I so much enjoyed your incites and personal reflections in your reviews. Very engaging to read.
Thanks! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.
I am on my local library's waitlist for Rest is Resistance. I first heard about it from NPR's life kit podcast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCAShFn6Fec) and now I am even more excited to read it.
It's so good! I feel like I've just started to scratch the surface with it. Definitely one of those books that I'll come back to again and again, and that is going to lead to lifetime learning/exploring/thinking.
Ohh I'm loving this book give away edition of the newsletter. This is going to be badgood. I'm very interested in The Black Unicorn!
Haha, badgood is right. I'll email you!
Intrigued by Bushra Rehman's book. I recently read Brown girls and this seems to be a good follow up novel.
Yeah, I can see that, both set in Queens, and the setting is really vivid and important in both. Roses is more concentrated, and seems more of a traditional, linear narrative. I really enjoyed Brown Girls, too, though.
I would LOVE love medicine if still available! ❤️❤️❤️
You got it! I'll email you details.
Yay thank you!!
Hello! I would be interested in There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill her Neighbor's Baby. I don't come across nearly enough Russian women writers.
You got it!