About

Hi, I’m April. I learned to read when I was about 3 years old, and I’ve been fat as long as I can remember. I decided to bring these two things together here at Reading While Fat.

Have you ever been annoyed by a description of a fat character in a book and wish the author did better? Me, too. Have you been thrilled to find a fat character that isn’t trying to lose weight? Less often, but it does happen.

In this blog, I’ll review some of the books I read and report whether I found anything fat positive, anti-fat biased, or weight neutral, but I’ll try to avoid repeating the worst of the anti-fat bias. I’ll focus on fiction and memoir, with an emphasis on diverse and queer-friendly authors. I’ll publish at least one or two reviews a week, on Sundays and/or Tuesdays.

Click on the categories above if you want to filter past posts by Fat Positive, Anti-Fat Biased, or Weight Neutral books, or on the tags in this cloud or at the bottom of this page to filter by topic, or for thumbnails of my latest reviews, click here.

The list of my 2024 reads, an analysis of my 2024 reading year, and older annual summaries and other content, including my views on fat acceptance, my journey to becoming a single mother, dealing with breast cancer and life afterwards, and my coming-out story are at bbwesquire.

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