Piglet | 
pickA compelling, readable story about class, ambition, desire, appearances, and blowing up your own life. For most of the novel I wasn‘t sure whether the obscurity of the key plot point was going to work, but in the end it did for me. This isn‘t a novel about what specifically happened, but rather how complicated and wrought it is to cross class boundaries, and to create a life that perhaps looks like what you desire, rather than feels like it.
pickCalled Piglet all her life by her family (because how dare a woman love food?), our MC is an accomplished cook and editor who is about to get married when a revelation throws everything into question. I appreciate what this book was trying to do in exploring how men and women are treated differently to the degree that women‘s desires are seen as grotesque, but it could have pushed it further. Low pick for me.
So honest & relatable!!
"But her eyes were still watering and the only way she could think to stop them was to eat until her stomach felt like it was made of stone, until she was so full she couldn‘t feel anything else."
"There were some things that you could not tell your friends. She knew that truths, once spoken, had the power to strip her of the life she had so carefully built, so smugly shared."
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This book resonated with me as I followed Piglet's journey through her struggles and conflicted emotions amidst major life events, raising vital questions: Are our choices driven by personal desires or external pressures? How do we know if we've chosen wisely? Are we pursuing 'having it all' or our genuine passions? Through Piglet's story, the book thoughtfully explores self-discovery and decision-making amidst societal expectations.
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A feel-good read, this is not - but it certainly made me feel! Hazell describes Piglet‘s story as “domestic claustrophobia”, richly exploring themes of class, cuisine, control, and the things we crave and consume. What will it take to feel satisfied? It‘s visceral, messy, and ravenous - full of tension that ratchets up to a show-stopping croquembouche crescendo!
pickPiglet, actually called that throughout the whole novel, has it all. We meet her in the grocery store picking out gourmet food items to create a lovely dinner for her friends. The friends remark about how Piglet can manage it all so effortlessly with her fiancé, job, and household. This is her driving force: the need to be admired and portrayed as having it all, until her fiancé ruins it! Wedding fallout ensues. Point made, good not great.
pickHaving a woman who talks about being large (but probably isn‘t by description) and loves food/cooking then starts binge eating called Piglet was a bit problematic for me. Plus the middle third dragged. Low pick. #aardvark
Just two weeks before the wedding Piglet finds out her fiancee has been having an affair. As she decides what to do about it, she has some issues with binge eating and destroys her life a bit. 🤷🏻♀️
What sentence would pierce him while leaving her intact? She had built her life so carefully around him. To say something, to do something, to feel something, would be to self-destruct.
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There were some things that you could not tell your friends. She knew that truths, once spoken, had the power to strip her of the life she had so carefully built, so smugly shared.
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pickA stylish, uncommonly clever novel about the things we want and the things we think we want, Piglet is both an examination of women‘s often complicated relationship with food and a celebration of the messes life sometimes makes for us.
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So excited for this month‘s @AardvarkBookClub picks!! Piglet was on my TBR anyway, and most of their SciFi picks have been winners for me, so I wanted to try Baby X. I‘m already in line for Wandering Stars at the library, but it sounded good, too. 👍🏻👍🏻 #aardvark
so-soThis started OK but I had more and more issues with it as the story unfolded. Piglet, so-called because she ate a lot when she was younger to cover up her sister‘s eating disorder, is still a binge-eater but the book skims over this. Her fiancé reveals a terrible secret just days before their wedding but we never find out what it is.
All of the characters are obnoxious (other than the best friend) and sometimes this works ⬇️
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