Posted by Racer on August 27, 2005, at 23:58:00
In reply to What's everyone reading?, posted by Angela2 on August 27, 2005, at 20:40:05
> What is everyone reading? I have started "The Ice Queen" I'm not sure who it's by, but if yoyu click on the link it will tell you. So far it's pretty good. By the Way, has anyone noticed how books, and when I say books I mean fictional books, are like looking into a twisted reality? It's like watching TV. Like Full House or Degrassi. It isn't real. That kind of bothers me. I'd like to read something where the protagonist has real emotions, logical problems, I dunno. Does anyone know what I mean?
Depends on what you read, I guess. I've read a number that reflected emotions I recognized. The one book that stands out for me, in terms of emotions I recognized, was a novel about a young woman who was undergoing inpatient treatment for anorexia, called "Life Size" by Jenefer Shute. Some of it was based on the outmoded ideas about anorexia being caused by sexual weirdness -- the whole "oral impregnation" bit, mostly -- but some of the scenes where she is looking at the food on her plate, or freaking out about eating -- those resonated for me. It was also a rather subtle book, because there was not only no Revelatory Breakthrough, but her transition from very sick to nearly ready for discharge was smooth, and almost unnoticeable. I know that it's similar for me, and I hardly notice the changes as they're happening. (Not that I don't still freak out about how enormous I've become. {shrug} Guess if it were easy, everyone would recover, huh?)
And, of course, there are many other books out there with real emotions -- it's just a matter of finding them. Someone here will have other suggestions, I'm sure.
Nearly forgot! Right now, I'm reading "The Body Project," about the changes in the past century or so in American adolescent girls, and the way they experience the world. Quite good, and very educational. Just finished "Chocky" by John Wyndham, which was excellent sci-fi.
Oh, for another emotion book -- "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card, or "Lost Boys," by OSC. (Yeah, I like his work.)
That's after "Something Rotten," by the divine Jasper Fforde. Gotta get my hands on "The Big Over Easy" next.
After this, though, gotta read some Assigned Books from my therapist and my nutritionist. First, probably, is "Intuitive Eating," then maybe "Overcoming Overeating" or another that I forget... Poor brain -- just like a sieve...
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