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The Importance of Talking About Our Feelings

Fat, Crazy, and Tired: Tales from the Trenches of Transformation by Van Lathan Jr.

September 19, 2022 by Ale 1 Comment

I’d never heard of Van Lathan Jr. before faintingviolet asked me to return his memoir to the library for her. As I’m wont to do, I read the first few chapters the night before I returned it, and was hooked and had to take it out for myself. The title (and first few chapters) lead one to believe this book is about diets and food and all the usual struggles people face in trying to get healthy. And part of this memoir is about Lathan […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: black culture, Black life, cbr14bingo, culture, diets, grief, new, personal stories, Van Lathan, Jr.

Ale's CBR14 Review No:15 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: black culture, Black life, cbr14bingo, culture, diets, grief, new, personal stories, Van Lathan, Jr. ·
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We Only Get This One Body

Fat, Crazy, and Tired: Tales from the Trenches of Transformation by Van Lathan, Jr.

July 21, 2022 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

I know Van Lathan from his Ringer podcasts, Higher Learning and Ringer-Verse. When I saw that he published a book earlier this year about his relationship with his body I thought, yes – let’s read that. What I got was a cultural critique of the unspoken things that keep us from maintaining good health in America right now. So much of the way in which the systems around us fail us forms the bedrock of this book, but its Lathan’s way of exploring the larger […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Health, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, bodies, cbr14bingo, Fat Crazy and Tired, health, Mental Health, Van Lathan, Jr.

faintingviolet's CBR14 Review No:43 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, bodies, cbr14bingo, Fat Crazy and Tired, health, Mental Health, Van Lathan, Jr. ·
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