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Shrill by Lindy West
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it was amazing
bookshelves: read-2016, unreviewed

I have read exactly six pages so far and have already laughed out loud four times. I LOVE YOU LINDY WEST.

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I am now exactly 23 pages in and was just rendered literally, gaspingly helpless with laughter at this line, in the (phenomenal) chapter on childhood role models for little fat girls, where she is discussing Mrs. Potts from Beauty and the Beast: "How come, when they turn back into humans, Chip is a four-year-old boy, but his mother, Mrs. Potts, is like 107? As soon as you become a mother, apparently, you are instantly interchangeable with the oldest woman in the world, and/or sixteen ounces of boiling brown water with a hat on it."
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Reading Progress

May 23, 2016 – Shelved
May 24, 2016 – Started Reading
June 3, 2016 – Finished Reading
December 20, 2020 – Shelved as: read-2016
December 20, 2020 – Shelved as: unreviewed

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Selwa today from Buzzfeed:


Oriana AH! Yes!! A lady writer I love loving another lady writer I love yessssss what a wonderful thing.


Shannon Current-reading and same-exact-sentiment twinsies!


Oriana Yessssssssss.


Mary So hilarious- I'm at page 23 and came to Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ to see if others thought this was the most hilarious book of all time. That line killed me too. Ok...back to reading...


Mary The bit about Baloo dressed as a sexy fortune teller did me in.


Oriana God she is the absolute #1 greatest. I saw her do an abridged version of that essay as a speech-y thing, with visual aids! Balloo as a fortune teller, oh lord.


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