Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile

Welcome to Litsy!

Litsy is a place to share and discover your favorite books with your favorite people.

Litsy is available on the web, for iOS and Android.

It’s fun.  It’s simple.  It’s all about the book. Sign up and get a little Litsy.

To respect member's privacy and keep things awesome, most of Litsy is hidden from Google. We let humans see and share pages, but not machines. Find out more.
This page is: Hidden

Trending Hashtags

See More
#readaway2024
13 users recently
#AuldLangSpine
12 users recently
#DaysDevotedTo
21 users recently
#wintergames2024
9 users recently
#XmasChaCha
10 users recently
#roll100
16 users recently

Trending Books

See More
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
50 users recently
How to Build an Insect
How to Build an Insect
Roberta Gibson
10 users recently
If Sharks Disappeared
If Sharks Disappeared
Lily Williams
8 users recently
James
James: A Novel
Percival Everett
10 users recently
The Grizzly Mother
The Grizzly Mother
Hetxwms Gyetxw Brett D. Huson
6 users recently
About | Help / FAQs | Privacy | Terms | Press | Resources
Beauty
Beauty | Bri Lee
3 posts | 5 read | 3 to read
You were either fit and trim or you weren't working hard enough. Your body was how you conveyed wealth and status to your peers, it was a personality trait, a symbol of goodness and values: an ethical ideal. In recent decades women have made momentous progress fighting the patriarchy, yet they are held to ever-stricter, more punishing physical standards. Self-worth still plummets and eating disorders are more deadly for how easily they are dismissed. In Beauty Bri Lee explores our obsession with thinness and asks how an intrinsically unattainable standard of physical 'perfection' has become so crucial to so many. What happens if you try to reach that impossible goal? Bri did try, and Beauty is what she learned from that battle: a gripping and intelligent rejection of an ideal that diminishes us all.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
review
thereflectiveflaneur
thereflectiveflaneur
Beauty | Bri Lee
post image
Pickpick

Engrossing and astute observations on the role of self, identity and beauty in the Instagram Age. A must read for all and a great musing on the role of self in the modern era. Simply excellent!

2 likes1 stack add
review
Tashreads
Tashreads
Beauty | Bri Lee
post image
Pickpick

I knew this book hit a nerve when I started feeling uncomfortable reading it. When I heard my own thoughts, my own insecurities given voice. Why I never feel good enough, why I‘m forever trying to lose weight, why I feel ‘less than‘ when I see images of beautiful people living beautiful lives. ⁣
⁣More in comments ⬇️

Tashreads I‘ve had three kids - I will never be thin and yet I feel a failure because of it. I don‘t see my body as given birth to three miracles- I see a saggy belly, stretch marks and softness. The self loathing is palpable. And I‘m not alone. When I‘m with a group of my female friends, how often do we turn the conversation to diets, to work-outs, to body image and aging. I‘m sick of it. I‘m so so sick of it. 5y
Tashreads We are worth more than our clothes size. There is more to us than our bodies.

Bravo Bri Lee 👏👏👏 5y
49 likes1 stack add2 comments
review
keepingupwiththepenguins
keepingupwiththepenguins
Beauty | Bri Lee
post image
Pickpick

If you were to stand naked in front of a mirror right now, what would run through your mind? Would you be brave enough to put those thoughts on a page, and send that page out into the world? This is an intimate and laudably honest literary essay about what it means to strive for a beauty (read as thinness) ideal. I devoured it in a single sitting. An extended review will be available to subscribers at http://www.keepingupwiththepenguins.com #NFNov

keepingupwiththepenguins P.S. The fine folks at Allen & Unwin were kind enough to send me a copy of this one for review. 5y
BarbaraBB That cover! And the plot sounds intriguing too. I‘d never dare writing that story 😀 5y
keepingupwiththepenguins @BarbaraBB Oh the cover art is truly stunning, isn't it? Really beautiful production, the whole package! ❤ 5y
40 likes3 comments