Always Too Much and Never Enough by Jasmin Singer

[Tessa, Founder + Curator]

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[debbicat *made of stardust*]

I just decided to add this one and will start tonight. :)

[Tessa, Founder + Curator]

Olivia wrote: "I finished listening to the audiobook of this a few days ago. Though I do like Singer's writing, I was a little disappointed overall with the story and the way she jumps through time. There was a l..."

I'm about halfway through and I'm not a fan of the time jumps either; each time she goes back or jumps ahead, I get a bit confused lol. I enjoy the way she writes though - her personality really shines through.

[Tessa, Founder + Curator]

I'm almost done with this book, but I just wanted to throw in this interview with Jasmin I read a month or so ago from Tenderly:

https://medium.com/tenderlymag/21-que...

She talks about body image and how she "was thin for 10 minutes and happened to get a book deal during that time" and now that's she's chubby again, she's lost her admission into the cool kids club.

According to the interview, she's currently working on a third book, "this time about the experience of losing a bunch of weight and gaining much of it back," which I'm really excited about.

[Tessa, Founder + Curator]

Okay, just finished this one and wow.

As I already stated, I found the time jumps to be frustrating, but I think her overall story and voice makes up for it.

Honestly, I didn't expect to relate and connect to Jasmin's story as much as I did, but there were some parts that were just so overwhelmingly me. I'm not into juicing and I know that's not something I'll ever personally do, but I loved the way she wrote on so many topics - sexuality, animal rights/veganism, fat-shaming/fatphobia, etc. So much of what she said and described, I recognized as something I do/did. I have a complicated relationship with food, which likely stems from my mother, who was always buying Weight Watchers meals and the like while she also battled with the binge-purge-repeat cycle. I was never "fat" but, for my height, I was definitely overweight - or almost overweight - up until three or four years ago.

I just felt really seen while reading this.

[Jordan]

I was really excited about this! I love VegNews and it sounded like I could relate a lot to her story. Yeah I didn’t love the time jumping and I also have some issues with juicing detox’s but I guess I’d have to do more research to really say much. Other than, I loved her story and I’m so glad I read it!

[Tessa, Founder + Curator]

Jordan wrote: "I was really excited about this! I love VegNews and it sounded like I could relate a lot to her story. Yeah I didn’t love the time jumping and I also have some issues with juicing detox’s but I gue..."

Yeah, I'm not super convinced on juicing, especially when it's referred to as a detox. I could be wrong, but doesn't the body naturally detox on its own? I'm pretty sure I've read something about that.