Let me be very clear with you. I am Indian, I lived in India, and UNLESS THAT BINDI IS RED AND ROUND IT IS NOT AN AFFRONT TO THE CULTURE OR PEOPLE. Deocrative Bindis are not specific to JUST India. They appear in many Asian countries as well.

Read it before, didn't agree with some of it then. There is a moral and ethical distinction between the fundamentally neutral act of adorning yourself with clothing or accessories or whatever inspired by another culture and manipulating, misrepresenting, harming, or making fun of that culture. In my view, the latter…

Get. Over. It. Wearing clothing and accessories inspired by a culture does not automatically debase that culture. It's a fundamentally neutral act.

Me neither! There were serious plot flaws (takes care of putting money aside the Dad can't touch, but oops, forgets to set up a guardian for him!) that really bugged and the editor was asleep at the wheel.

Liked it. Didn't love it. Can barely remember a lot of it.

I am with you. I wanted to like it, I liked the premise, but it never seemed to deliver. Tbank you for going first. Like JuneCarter, I was gonna stay mum.

I hated it. I sort of liked it up until the end. The last twenty pages was an embarrassment. It was cringe-worthy. Words cannot express how terrible those last few pages of pseudo-philosophy really were.

Agreed, adult Theo's internal monologue was emo high school poet tier.

I didn't love it, either. I liked it, but I didn't think it was anything special. I feel like I missed something important.

When I see a man drinking bourbon

Me either, though I wouldn't have had the balls to say so here until you went first. I only read 3/4 the way through and put it down. Theo annoyed me. I found that I was having to force myself to read it and my eye kept being drawn to the big stack of other books I want to read…and they eventually won out.

I empathize with the writer's feelings and difficulties. But as a fat-as-hell woman, I believe that she is adding to rather than mitigating the problem of how fat women are perceived. Wear what you want, ear what you want, go where you want, date who you want....it is imperative! There are actual studies, which I…