Holding Up the Universe

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but between my moody-blue mood - and this 'nails-on-a-chalk-board' tedious predictable style and structure of writing, I wanted to pull my hair out.

From the author of the New York Times bestseller All the Bright Places comes a heart-wrenching story about what it means to see someone—and love someone—for who they truly are. She divides her time between Los Angeles and coastal Georgia with her husband, kids, and literary cats.Even though Libby has lost two-thirds of her weight, she’s still the one occupying the largest space in a high school classroom.

These things are gross and offensive, but showing the horrible effects of labels and cruel bullying does not seem like a bad thing to me.

Yes, he's got swagger, but he's also mastered the impossible art of giving people what they want, of fitting in. Libby is still a big girl, but she's happy in her skin now - it's everyone else who has the problem. I'm sure a lot of you will remember the ton of backlash this book received when the blurb was revealed.

Her characters Libby and Jack feel so real that it's almost impossible to believe they don't live and breathe. It's not only emotionally manipulative, it's really being reductive in terms of the personal pains and struggles that they're going through. Please note my copy of Holding Up the Universe is a proof, so this quote may be different in the final, finished copy, and may be on a different page.Since her mum's death she's been picking up the pieces in private, alone with her heartbroken father. Also every other character in this story, like in All the Bright Places, offers absolutely nothing to the storyline and they only add to that awful stereotype that “everyone in high school is an asshole” and “the world is against me because everyone hates me in school”. Like in All the Bright Places, these characters are only their physical traits or illnesses and that is extremely harmful. With these guys, he's safe; he doesn't have to worry about if this person is who he thinks they are, he knows. The author tried to portray Libby as a person who is fighting against bullying- but she refers to herself as fat many times.