From Sabrina Dropkick, Chicago IL; favorite food: baked goods.

I haven’t read this one yet, but it’s been in my Amazon cart for a while. Fat Girl, written by Judith Moore, is a memoir written because she was compelled to unveil the truth about being fat. I found a response from Moore on http://www.vachss.com about why she wrote the book: 

“ I wrote Fat Girl because I’d read books that other fat women wrote about how they were fat. Most fat women didn’t write the truth about fat. They didn’t write about fat fat fat fat thighs and how tender flesh on the inside of fat thighs rubs and rubs. The skin on one thigh rubs the skin on the other thigh down to raw blister. Every step you take, this raw blistered skin hurts. You can’t tell anybody “I have blisters” and “I hurt” because first off, you don’t want to talk even in whispers about anything that goes on in the gloom between your thighs. No way. You are disgusting and what goes on between your thighs is disgusting, so you don’t tell. Besides, anybody you told would know you got the blisters because you’re fat. They’d cluck-cluck-cluck that you were fat because in one sitting you poked in your snout and gobbled, with warm garlic French bread: an entire four-serving bowl of the perfect Cobb salad (Romaine and Bibb lettuces, Haas avocado whose soft ripe flesh turns an immeasurably buttery green, watercress, tomato loosed tenderly from its tight skin, cold chicken breast and ham cut into batons, hard-boiled egg, chives, crumbled Maytag Blue cheese, bacon fried and broken up, and for dressing, a heavy sluice of whatever you like). Anyone you told about that Cobb salad and French bread would feel either revolted by you or sorry for you. You don’t want anyone to feel either way, not about you. You don’t wish friend or stranger to feel sorry for you because you don’t feel sorry for yourself, you feel fat.”

You can find the entire response here: http://www.vachss.com/media/righteous/why_fat_girl_moore.html

You can also buy the book on Amazon, used, for $.09 (yes, 9 cents!) and new for $3.49 - http://www.amazon.com/Fat-Girl-Story-Judith-Moore/dp/0452285852/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268532919&sr=8-2

From Sabrina Dropkick, Chicago IL; favorite food: baked goods. 

I bought this book a while ago and never got to finish it thanks to a heavy course load this year, but it’s definitely on my list of beach reads for this summer. From what I remember, it’s pretty funny and easy to read. 

Here’s the low down on this book, from pinkbooks.com: 

“This off-kilter novel centers on three girls who are definitely not part of the in crowd: one’s fat, one’s a dyke, and one is missing a breast. Nicknamed “Lezzylard” by her classmates, Angie is seduced by the prettiest girl in school, an anorexic who just wants to make imaginary grocery lists. Inez, the school’s pot dealer, can’t shoplift because security guards are mesmerized by her single enormous breast. Shelby and Angie can’t be together because then everyone will think Angie’s only a dyke because she’s too fat to get a guy. Manstealing for Fat Girls explodes the locus where patriarchal and class violence intersect, while embracing all that is magical - and dangerous - about adolescence. Set in a working class suburb of St. Louis in the 1980s, the book is replete with music and pop culture references of the era, but the bullying, lunch table treachery, and desperate desire to fit in ring tune for every generation.” 

Here’s a link to Amazon, because I know you’re now ever so compelled to read this fucking masterpiece! You can buy it used for $.01 (yes, that says ONE FUCKING CENT!), or new for $1.94!!!

http://www.amazon.com/Manstealing-Fat-Girls-Michelle-Embree/dp/1933368020/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268521410&sr=8-1