For more reviews, check out my blog: Craft-CycleA powerful read filled with insight on various aspects of weight, body image, self-worth, and culture.One of the things that makes this such a unique book is that the journey is presented as a work in progress. Gay documents her way through life, recou...
Title: Ayiti Author/Narrator: Roxane Gay Format: audiobook Time: 02:46 (166 mins) Wow! Powerful. Haunting. Amazing. Haitian-American is not my experience, but I feel through the author's words--hearing them in her own voice figuratively and literally--I got a taste of what it is to live the H...
Date Published: May 1, 2018 Format: Hardcover Source: Library Date Read: March 7-8, 2019 Review: I thought Roxane Gay did a great job putting this anthology together. Partly it was the variety (not every story involves a rape), partly was the lack of tangents which comes with talk about rape cultu...
[I received a copy of this book through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.]This collection of essays is a very enlightening one: about people who were raped and/or sexually assaulted, about those who work with them, about the rape culture that permeates so many places and societies.The lat...
Look, don't let my rating fool you. This is an important book; it should be required reading. I love the inclusion of both LGTB and male voices, and important. I just, and this isn't going to sound nice but, I just wish there had more culture, if that makes sense. While the bulk of the collection ar...
This is embarrassing. I started reading this and immediately knew the first story, which is a good clue I've read it before. I continued knowing the stories all the way through. In fact I'm pretty sure this book is where I first learned of Blue Apron(tm). I don't keep a good list usually (though I'm...
I Picked Up This Book Because: I saw some buzz about the book and decided to pick it up. The Story: Roxane’s story cannot be neatly summed up in a few words of a review. Her tale is deeply personal. There is tragedy and self depreciation. There are realizations that most wouldn’t want to admit to ...
I had this book on my NOOK for at least two years. I wanted to read it in those two years, but felt intimated because Ms. Gay is an intellectual and just highly freaking smart (I follow her on Twitter). I am now kicking myself for waiting so long to discover her writing. Damn, Ms. Gay gets me - at...
This one goes on my "doesn't feel right to rate" shelf. If I were to rate this memoir, which chronicles Gay's sexual assault and subsequent weight gain, it would almost feel like I would be rating her experience or her body in some way.Writing-wise, however, I wish that this memoir was condensed sub...
This book is heartbreaking, soul-baring, and gut-wrenching, but even through all of that, there is the tiniest spec of cautious hope, which I found amazing. Roxane Gay's story is not easy to read, but you need to read it. I was devastated, and shamed, and called out for my ignorance, thoughtless com...
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