Big Girl (Audible Audio Edition) Danielle Steel Kathleen McInerney Brilliance Audio Books
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A chubby little girl with blond hair, blue eyes, and ordinary looks, Victoria Dawson has always felt out of place in her family, especially in body conscious Los Angeles. Her parents are disappointed by their daughter's looks.
Later in life, the one thing Victoria knows is that she has to get as far away from home as possible and, after college in Chicago (which her parents disapprove of), she moves to New York City. Landing her dream job as a high school teacher, Victoria finds joy and excitement working with her students by day--and by night continues to wage war on her weight among the sleek and buff at Manhattan's fitness clubs. Victoria keeps a lifeline open to her family through her close relationship with her sister Gracie. For though they can't be more different the two sisters love each other unconditionally. By contrast her parents, though across the country, still have an emotional hold on Victoria and instinctively seem to know just what to say to bring her down. Victoria knows she has been a disappointment to them all her life. No matter what she does, she can never win their approval.
When Grace announces her engagement to a man who is an exact replica of their handsome, materialistic, narcissistic father Victoria cannot help but feel even more ostracized, and like a failure once again. Ahead is a challenge and a risk to accept herself as she is, celebrate it, and win the victories she has fought so hard for and deserves. Big girl or not, she is a gem!
Big Girl (Audible Audio Edition) Danielle Steel Kathleen McInerney Brilliance Audio Books
Horrible book to listen to on CDs. It is so unbelievably repetitive, you start yelling at it in traffic. "Gracie is beautiful, we get it! Your parents treat you badly, we get it! You need to lose 20 pounds, we get it!" The most insulting thing about this book is that the "big girl" in question is a size 14-16 and needs to lose 10-20 lbs. at any point in the story. On top of that, she is so incredibly weak and whiny, you end up not caring about her at all. If I didn't have such a long commute every day, I'd have tossed this out the window on Day 1.Product details
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Big Girl (Audible Audio Edition) Danielle Steel Kathleen McInerney Brilliance Audio Books Reviews
I have struggled with my weight all my life. I married an abusive alcoholic because he showed interest I'm me and I thought that was about as good as it was going to get for me. That lasted 12 years and then I met the man I am married to now and he is my Collin. He never fails to let me know how much he loves me and size doesn't matter.
I saw DS on The View, and was intrigued by this book. So, going against my normal tendencies, which is never to read her books, I downloaded it to my . Big mistake.
I felt as though the entire book was an introduction that one might find as a prologue, rather than the whole entire story. I kept reading because I thought surely she would start to write as an author should, writing not to tell about Victoria, but writing to have us live in her world, to bring us in completely so that we truly enjoy the story. That never happened, but I kept reading to find out if the main character would ever stand up for herself. Again, I was disappointed.
As for the mechanics...yes, it is incredibly redundant. I understood who Victoria and her parents were in the first 20 pages; I didn't need to be reminded repeatedly throughout the novel.
I will not be reading DS again.
Beautifully written story of a girl who felt unloved by her parents all her life because of her looks. Danielle Steel hits the mark on how a young girl lives all her life in the shadow of her sister who just happens to be thinner and prettier than her. But out of it all, she finds love from someone who sees her inner beauty and worth!
Family irritates the big girl but every one loved the youngest and small daughter.
The big girl was about 8 or 9 years old when the youngest sister was born.
Book is really good , I thought.
I enjoy books alot. Rarely do I find one that I did not find at least a little enjoyable. I read DS "big girl" thinking it would be interesting. I was wrong. Every other page (even in the end) talked about how fat the main character was, or how fat she thought she was. It was rather annoying. She goes to therapy, has a great job, great friends, and dates but never can get past her size (and feels the need to constantly remind us how "fat" she is. Its not until she starts dating a guy does she even start to actually work hard at losing weight/getting fit. I kept telling myself it will get better, but the book never does. Everything about it is borring and the main character never actually develops. Its seems as if she is still the same as she was in the beginning of the book, except for allowing her boyfriends perception of her be her focus instead of her parents.
Pointless, the entire book.
I loved this how this book shows a daughter raised being treated differently by her own family ( always being put down and belittled) just because of her weight or her looks and her fight to come to terms with being able to love herself as she is despite they're putdowns. Even tho she doesn't have the support of her family she gains the support of a few close friends and eventually a man that helps her to see that she is deserving of love. Sometimes our friends have to end up being the family we get to choose...
I bought this book on my BEFORE reading the reviews.....and guess what? The reviewers were right. This is NOT the quality I had come to expect from Mrs. Steel's books. This is a very monotonous book that needed only a few pages to sum up what this book was about. "A girl is ridiculed by her very unloving, rich, narcissitic parents....and is constantly degraded due to her physical size and attributes, while her younger sister is the "adored prima dona" who is beautiful and slim."
Come on, Mrs. Steel....in a world where girls are dying from anorexia to "fit" the "model image"....this book is an insult to healthy, active women who still have "bigger frames" than the typical "starving model types" with sunken cheeks, prominent bones, and waif-like appearance.
I kept waiting for this book to get beyond "physical appearances", but it NEVER did. I kept waiting for the moment where our main character would stand up to her cruel parents....but it NEVER came. Even at the end of the book, she only really felt better about herself because she had finally found a man who "could love her the way she was". And this man, finally stood up to her parents on her behalf.....but she, herself, never did. And later, in the book, the way her sister treated her was unbelievable and cruel.
Even by the end of the book, there was no "resolve". She still, didn't have "self love" and "self worth" and was still obssessed with losing those last few pounds....
I feel like Mrs. Steel owes an apology to her writing audience that has come to expect so much more from her in the past!!!
Horrible book to listen to on CDs. It is so unbelievably repetitive, you start yelling at it in traffic. "Gracie is beautiful, we get it! Your parents treat you badly, we get it! You need to lose 20 pounds, we get it!" The most insulting thing about this book is that the "big girl" in question is a size 14-16 and needs to lose 10-20 lbs. at any point in the story. On top of that, she is so incredibly weak and whiny, you end up not caring about her at all. If I didn't have such a long commute every day, I'd have tossed this out the window on Day 1.
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