Lizzie has been fat since adolescence. Her body has shaped how she is seen, and more importantly how she sees herself.
Category: Books
I have honest and completely biased – cause I’m human – reviews on all the books I’ve been reading since December of 2016.
Dreams of Joy
At 19, Joy finds out her family’s biggest secret. She runs away to find her father in her ancestral homeland of newly communist China.
How Mrs. Claus Saved Christmas
Layla Claus, Santa’s wife, saved Christmas in the 17th century from Oliver Cromwell and the Puritan English Parliament.
Red Famine
A heartbreaking and in depth look into the Holodomor: pervasive famine during 1932-1934 in Ukraine killing over 13% of the population. Applebaum argues it wasn't mother nature but Stalin.
A Week in Winter
How one woman’s dream brought a group of strangers together while they struggle through their own difficult situations.
Winter Storms
The last in a trilogy by Hilderbrand about the lovably dysfunctional Quinn family set in Nantucket.