

The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
Author: Carolyn Mackler
Narrator: Laura Knight Keating
Unabridged: 6 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 05/04/2018
Categories: Young Adult Fiction
Author: Carolyn Mackler
Narrator: Laura Knight Keating
Unabridged: 6 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 05/04/2018
Categories: Young Adult Fiction
Carolyn Mackler is the acclaimed author of the YA novels The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things (A Michael L. Printz Honor Book); The Universe Is Expanding and So Am I; Infinite in Between; and Love and Other Four-Letter Words; and the middle grade novel, Best Friend Next Door. Carolyn’s award-winning books have appeared on bestseller lists and been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Carolyn lives in New York City with her husband and two sons. The Wife App is her first adult novel.
I am not sure how I feel about this one. I even slept on it before reviewing it. On one hand, it is a good teen book (Why, it's a Printz Honor!). On the other, why does every fat girl protagonist have to be so darn pathetic? There must be some sort of checklist authors use for an overweight novel: *......more
This book is a TIME CAPSULE. I read this exclusively because I got an ARC of the sequel, which is inexplicably coming out this year. Yes. A sequel. To this 2003 contemporary. Which couldn’t do a better job of capturing a bygone, offensive, outdated way of looking at weight if that were its goddamn pu......more
I'm wavering between a 3.5 and a 4 on this one. Very quick read. The book is about Virginia a girl trying to live in a "picture perfect family" when she herself does not feel quite so picture perfect. Dealing with being overweight, critiqued and facing a family crisis, Virginia deals with teenage is......more
I LOVED this book in high school. I remember reading it repetitively because I just adored the main character, Virginia Shreves. I remember relating to her so, so well and supporting her over and over, always urging her on. I was her biggest fan. More often than not, I found myself wishing for what......more
This book has trigger warnings for depression, rape, self-harm and bulimia! So keep that in mind if you decide to pick up this book. I did enjoy it but there were some things that I did not like. The first thing is that it took to long to get anywhere. The first 100 pages were the same story, and for......more