Life in the Fat Lane

from olegalCA

Preachy book about the perfect girl who inexplicably gains weight. No depth to the characters, long passages of characters telling each other the obvious... pretty bad but I did finish it.

from engpunk77

A few years ago, one of my students borrowed this book from my pile of public library discards and loved it so much that she wrote a really touching letter to the author about how much it affected her. I stumbled across it again and accidentally sat down and read the whole thing. A few hours late...

from heina

It's definitely an interesting book in that it embodies the ultimate chunky-girl fantasy: Beautiful Thin Girl Becomes Inexplicably and Irreversibly Fat. That is the problem, however --- the narrative would have been much more compelling had she developed an overeating disorder and had actually go...

from winkinkwriting

Great book. Interesting read and the concept is great. Popular prom queen type girl turns into obese outcast. Nice transformation of personality from plastic superficial to introspective, dimensional and self aware.

from jurai2

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS A SPOILER!!! I haven't read anything by Cherie Bennett in awhile, but I remember enjoying her column 'Hey, Cherie!' when I was a teen. I've had this book on my to-be-read list for a while and once I finally picked it up, I didn't want to put it down. Lara is that girl you wis...