BlogHer Book Club: Diary of a Mad Fat Girl

Wowzer, was this a good read!

BlogHer Book Club provided me with a book to read, Diary of a Mad Fat Girl by Stephanie McAfee. I sat and read this in about three days. That is the fastest I have read though a book in a LONG time! 'Ace' and her friends are hilarious!

The book revolves around three girlfriends, one hiding a secret lover, one being verbally assaulted then later worse, and one who kept making the wrong decisions. They helped each other through there problems and eventually they all had happy endings. I love it when a book ends on a happy not. Diary of a Mad Fat Girl was very easy to read, light and witty, it had a bit of everything in it, romance, comedy, drama, mystery....

Ace (Gracelia Jones) has this long time boyfriend that she won't marry because she has trust issues. She speaks her mind no matter and has weight issues...and this really cute dog, a chiweenie, named Buster Loo.

Chloe is in a horrible marriage which she finally wakes up after her friends get their spy on and start following the husband around to strip clubs and other places, so funny what kind of situations they get themselves into!

Lilly, the one hiding a secret boyfriend is accused of sleeping with a minor, but come to find out she is really hiding a Gentlemen's secret.

There this really cooky know it all about everything to do with the town, rich as heck lady....she has all the info you could ever dream of getting your hands on, from security cameras throughout Bugtussle, Mississippi. She ends up helping screw over Chloe's Husband, and Lilly and Ace's arch nemesis, the school principal they work under!!


All in all you NEED to read this book! I defiantly will look for more books from Stephanie McAfee, she writes what I LOVE to read!

<3 Carrie

PS: This is a paid review for BlogHer Book Club but the opinions expressed are my own.

BlogHer Book Club: The Rules of Inheritance

Well I finished reading my third book for the BlogHer Book Club. It was a page turner. I stayed up late so many nights just waiting to see what she wrote next. The book was: The Rules of Inheritance, by Claire Bidwell Smith.

I've never lost a parent, but after reading Claire's Memoir, I now know exactly how it might feel. Through out the book I found myself crying, and my heart sinking and then lifting again. I felt like I was living her life with her. I especially loved that she broke it up into section's, Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. In those sections or parts of the healing process she jumped back and forth in time. In ways I found myself shaking my head, relating to certain times in her life.

If you have suffered a loss, this is a must read. And if not, I still think you should read it, it is the most genuine heartfelt book I have ever read.





<3 Carrie

This is a paid review for BlogHer Book Club but the opinions expressed are my own.

BlogHer Book Club, The Weird Sisters

Hi Guys! I have another book review for ya tonight. BlogHer sent me The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown to read and give my opinion on for the BlogHer Book Club.

Its about three sisters who come home to care for their mother who is going through breast cancer treatments. Rose, the older of the three, she is a homely Professor who's struggling to let go and believe in herself. She is engaged to a man who loves to travel and she prefers her hometown. She is having a hard time figuring out where she should be. Bianca or Bean as she is referred to throughout the book, is a high style attention seeker. Dreamed of New York as a girl and went there after college only to come home hiding from the dreamy expensive city. Cordelia, Cordy for short, is best labeled as a hippie. She is the baby, and often was given in to. She took up traveling and wandered the US until coming home, harboring her own secret-a pregnancy. All three girls have a hard time connecting and communicating with their parents. They speak in Shakespearean verse's, thanks to their father who is a professor of Shakespeare at the local college.

Now all three of them are home, faced with reality of 'growing up', and trying to figure out what in the world they are going to do.

I won't spoil the ending for ya ;) 

While getting into this book was sssllllloooowwwwww, I rather enjoyed it. It was fresh and light. The Author really lets you into the sisters heads. You really get a good sense of who you are reading about. I really like her style of writing, and look forward to more from her. Would love for another bokk with these charaters to come out, showing us more into their lives and how they are now. Hint Hint Mrs. Brown!

<3 Carrie

This is a paid review for BlogHer Book Club but the opinions expressed are my own.

BlogHer Book Club, Why Women Need Fat

First let me tell you, Why Women Need Fat, was VERY hard for me to get through. This type of book does not appeal to me at all, BUT the first page hooked me in (for a little while at least) because I could relate to it. I am a mom who is struggling to lose the baby weight on regular diets. The first thing to strike me as "Wow" was when they said, Diets are making us fat! Really? Yes! Because you generally gain all the weight you lost plus some back when you stop 'dieting'.

The book goes on to tell you about how our ancestors ate natural foods, like butter, and how healthy they were and as time progressed how we became more overweight as a society, trying to eat the 'healthier' foods, like Omega fats and unsaturated fats like vegetable oil. As a nation we were 'tricked' into eating the 'healthier' foods that we're actually making us fat instead. The book compares American weights and other weights such as Italian's, and how they are thinner than us and eat fattier foods than us. The book compares between different shaped woman and how their diets differ. It also links the Omega 3's and Omega 6's to the increase in our American cultures weight.

The Authors talk about waist to hip ratio and how men are drawn to the lower ratios, small waist large hip. They write about how woman store their fat in their hips for future babies, and how GAINING weight after our first baby is beneficial to our future children. Another wow from me!

The book was talking about how births differ and how a baby's head is so big nowadays, and how more women need C-sections to complete the birth process. It related a story about an ape giving birth and how it was so easy for her she stood up from a sleep, and reached down and took the baby out and soon it was playing.
I'm taking this directly from the book now:" The change in the pelvis came first, beginning about 6 million years ago when some pioneering apes first started walking upright."
That quote was from evolution believing minds, not God fearing men. Just my view on that....Had to point it out. I'm slightly less intrigued at this point, only because of my religion. They related the change in our hip shape to those of apes, evolution of man. Hmmmm.

The size of a woman's waist predicts the size of her unborn children. Small waist = small baby, where as big waist = big baby. Some of the statements and facts in this book are mind boggling. As I read it I was appalled at some and transfixed by others.

Eating better foods-natural foods, promotes a healthy weight rather than dieting.

The last part of the book told you what to eat and how to find your natural weight and body shape.



***One last thing, I was kind of put off by all the playmates references.

Before I even picked up this book, I had switched to REAL butter instead of fake 'Country Crock' like substitutes. Yesterday at the market I was more conscious at what I put in my shopping cart, I noticed more veggies and fruit and less of the more convenient items, like freezer meals. So it has affected the way I shop a little. I always knew that diets didn't work for me and that a change in the 'way of life' is the way I needed to go. This book supports that feeling.


<3 Carrie

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