Girls Who Wear Glasses

De: Jennifer Inglis

Narrado por: Caroline Shaffer

Sometimes you need to take a chance...on yourself.

Plus-sized Rachel Simon has settled into her life. But in a lifetime (so far) of not-quite fitting in and battling demon food issues, she has given up on finding love, despite the well-meaning nagging of her close circle of friends.

Now, Rachel has received some big news: a fashion blog, which she secretly wrote on the side, has caught the eye of a major fashion magazine, who not only want her to write a column, but are giving her an award at an upcoming banquet. The problem? She used Lisa’s picture on her bio and believes they expect a tall beautiful blonde to walk through the doors of the magazine.

She asks Lisa to pose as her at an upcoming meeting, as well the awards banquet, believing that she would lose everything if they knew someone who looks like Rachel was behind the writing. Then she meets Nathan: cute, smart, and just a little bit weird, but she’s absolutely convinced men like that don’t ask out “fat girls” like her, and places him decidedly in the Friend Zone. And to her dismay, she finds that her best friend has decided to date him.

Along her journey toward love, self-acceptance, and being true to oneself, Rachel finds that sometimes, “Men do make passes at girls who wear glasses.”

©2020 Jennifer Inglis (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing

Fat Shaming Trigger Warning*****Spoilers

I really wanted to like this book. But honestly, it's really just 9 hours of fat shaming. This book just made me angry. Rachel is a size 16, the average size of the average woman in America. The whole book is just talking about Rachels emotional eating problem. At no point in the book, does she address her body image, just the hint of the emotional eating. Her friends are awful with the exception of Nathan and Brennan. Her friends fat shame her just as bad as she shames herself. Lisa and Josie are self absorbed narcissists and Rachel is avoiding confrontation. I had to force myself to listen to the whole book because I was hoping the ending would bring the relief of Rachel finally having it out with everyone and it didn't. I don't think the writers intention was to write 90 thousand words of fatphobia but that was the result.