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I really give it 2 3/4 stars instead of 3 but Goodreads doesn't allow that.

I’ve been following and reading Shauna for quite a while. Many years ago, I was having some digestive issues and thought I may need to go gluten-free. In my typical fashion, I began reading all about a gluten-free lifestyle and stumbled across Shauna’s blog.

I found a lot of info on the blog that I enjoyed reading. She mixed in not only recipes for gluten-free meals but stories of her life as well. She met a man, married him and they wrote a few cookbooks together. She had a daughter, adopted a son, and had a few health scares. I was still reading.

However, she doesn’t write much about the gluten-free lifestyle anymore on her blog. She’s moved over to Substack and just writes 3 newsletters a week for paid subscribers and 1 free newsletter a week for free subscribers (such as myself). I don’t know much about Substack but it’s a way to make money for your writing from what I gather. I’m ok with that and I like her writing well enough to MAYBE potentially pay for it.

I’m not sure what you would call her writing anymore. It’s part cultural criticism, part cooking, part memoir, and a little of other notations on life thrown in as well.

As much as I’m a fan of blogs and personal essays on the web I’m typically not a fan of essays and short stories when I pick up a book. I like a lot of detail so thick, epic books are more my style. Her newest book, Enough, is a collection of essays so it’s not much more than a compilation of blog posts.

I found it sometimes a bit discombobulated. A particular storyline would start in one essay and finish in another. Or it would mention the tail end of a story in 1 essay and then later in another essay tell the beginning of the story. Since I like her blog posts I thought I would enjoy this more than I did. Maybe it was just because of the essay part and not one long memoir. There were many times I wanted more detail; like why she never seemed to slam her father for his mistreatment of her but always slammed her mother.

This part of her story resonated so much with me:

I spent far too long in my life trying to make myself small. ⁠I spent years thinking my body should be thinner, my laugh should be quieter, my comments briefer, my everything smaller and streamlined and more like the rest of society.

Raise your hand if this feels in any way familiar to you. ⁠I know I’m not the only one. Well, I know it now. It took until my 40s, and more deeply in my 50s, to realize that my brain has been locked into a system, created by the media and misogyny and misinformation. It has been part of being a woman in this culture — to make myself small.

We must make ourselves small. And now I know that when you focus most of your attention on making your stomach smaller — insert the body part that bothered you the most here instead — on making sure you don’t offend, on trying to be good instead of here? You waste so much fucking time.


But more than anything I agree for the most part the same thing that Goodreads member, Rachel, writes about this book on her book review blog. Sometimes I just can’t say it any better than someone else that has already said it. Read her book review here: https://rachelreadsbooks.com/2019/11/06/enough-notes-from-a-woman-who-has-finall....
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WellReadSoutherner | 1 weitere Rezension | Apr 6, 2022 |
I read an essay/excerpt from this and was curious to read more. Turns out that essay and the section it was in was more than enough.
 
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giovannaz63 | 1 weitere Rezension | Jan 18, 2021 |

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