This week's book:
One to Watch
By Kate Stayman-London
This week's book was a Book of the Month pick back in June. It is a silly romantic comedy about a plus size fashion blogger going on a Bachelorette type of show. I don't really care much about fashion or watch any reality television so I have no idea why I picked this book.
I do find it very funny that I was reading this book about a girl bringing positive body imaging for all of these plus size ladies, while I was riding the stationary bike trying like heck to lose all this weight. I've always been bigger then my friends and family. I was always the "fat" funny friend, or at least that's how I always felt. I was a competitive dancer for fifteen years, where every girl is stick thin and flat chested. The dance moms would pounce on me the second my mom would go to the audience to watch me dance at competitions, to tape down my chest or tell me that I looked too provocative in the costume that literally every other girl was wearing in my company. I was lucky enough to have a group of amazing friends in college, but they were drop dead gorgeous. Guys were constantly asking for their numbers or would walk right past me to get to my beautiful friends. To this day I still sometimes have a hard time thinking my husband could really think I'm attractive; he does and tells me daily, because he's amazing.
The book is easy mind candy, much like trash reality television. It's the author's first book so I found it a little long, but not too bad. If you like those dating shows and fashion I would recommend the book.
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