Weight-Neutral – Page 11 – Reading While Fat

I Won’t Shut Up: Finding Your Voice When the World Tries to Silence You

Highly recommend this powerful anti-racist memoir and call to each of us to find our voices to speak our truths.

Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

From the Central Park birder who was involved in a viral racist incident in 2020 comes this well-written, insightful, and funny memoir that I highly recommend.

Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea

Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea (pub. May 30, 2023) by Rita Chang-Eppig is a thoughtful historical novel about life and piracy as experienced by one woman–Shek Yeung–based on the real-life pirate queen who commanded a confederation of pirates in the South China Sea in the early 1800s. As the novel opens, ShekContinue reading “Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea”

Hope and Glory

Recommend if you’re interested in a family drama set in London with a Nigerian-British family and a sister who’s just come home after her father has died and her family has fallen apart.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Beautifully written, full of quotable lines, Zevin has created a story about the art of making games that also deals with grief and the heartache of the world, and how to keep making art through it all.

The Dark Side of the Road

Interested in a Christmastime locked-room manor house mystery with both science fiction and supernatural elements? Look no further.

Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe

This is an OK, weight-neutral chick lit read lacking in racial representation but set in a southern town. Where are the black people?

The Companion

The Companion (2020) by Katie Alender was a creepy weight-neutral YA thriller/ horror that beautifully walked the line between–is this supernatural horror or plain old human cruelty? Margot is a teenager living in a group home because she’s the only survivor of a terrible car crash that killed her entire family–both parents and two youngerContinue reading “The Companion”

The Ten Thousand Doors of January

I was completely enthralled by The Ten Thousand Doors of January (2019) by Alix E. Harrow from very nearly the first page. Set in the late 1800s, January is a teenager cared for by a guardian, Mr. Locke, because her father is always traveling on expeditions for him. His house is filled with wondrous thingsContinue reading “The Ten Thousand Doors of January”

You Should See Me in a Crown

You Should See Me In a Crown (2020) by Leah Johnson is so good!! Liz Lighty, senior at a suburban Indianapolis high school, band geek, straight-A student, lives with her grandparents in a small town on the outskirts of Indianapolis that feels very familiar. Her mother has passed away, and her brother is often sickContinue reading “You Should See Me in a Crown”