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Posted by Racer on January 16, 2005, at 10:11:55
It's about eating disorders, but it's actually given me some insights into non-ED issues in my own life. I suspect it would be helpful for others, as well, who have experienced trauma in their lives. It is geared towards women, so men might feel left out by it, but for women it does touch on a lot of common experiences. It's also got a section on EDs and substance abuse, but I think it might be particularly helpful for anyone with a substance abuse problem. Just read the ED specific parts as addition specific, and if it works let us all know.
The book is "The Body Betrayed" by Katherine Zerbe.
Posted by partlycloudy on January 17, 2005, at 4:54:01
In reply to The Body Betrayed, posted by Racer on January 16, 2005, at 10:11:55
Thanks, I will check this one out.
p.s. the book I recently finished that was such a snoozola was "Devil In The White City". National bestseller, my foot! Another stupor-ducing tome is "The Dante Club" that had an endorsement from Dan Brown - the Davinci author. Two duds in a row make my brains hurt.
Posted by Racer on January 17, 2005, at 11:16:11
In reply to Re: The Body Betrayed, posted by partlycloudy on January 17, 2005, at 4:54:01
You wrote:
"Two duds in a row make my brains hurt"
To fix that, try Lemony Snicket... Too much fun to leave them for the kids...
Posted by partlycloudy on January 17, 2005, at 13:11:06
In reply to Unsolicited advice... » partlycloudy, posted by Racer on January 17, 2005, at 11:16:11
Always appreciated! Actually, I *just* bailed from book club again. I was told I "need to be able to commit" to going every month, just after I told the bossy journalist who emailed me that I was having trouble leaving MY HOUSE right now and that going back to work was stressing me out, so I had missed last week's meeting. She said it was a shame I wouldn't be able to meet with the "smart, engaging women" in the club.
(snort) Gosh, here I was calling them snobby and condescending and they were smart and engaging! I guess I really *am* uncultured. Silly me.
Posted by Racer on January 18, 2005, at 17:01:53
In reply to Re: Unsolicited advice... » Racer, posted by partlycloudy on January 17, 2005, at 13:11:06
I hope you're laughing at them all the way to your core, and not feeling yucky deep inside while laughing on the outside. I'm sorry someone said something so nasty to my overcast one. If I were there -- as well as voting against Jeb -- I'd go after whoever dared say that to you! Man, would they be sorry!
Costco had packages of Lemony Snickett yesterday, so I bought books 4-6, & 7-9. Books 10 and 11 were packaged with book 1, so I didn't buy them. Mother pointed out to me that I should have, since I'd still be saving money over retail, and could donate book 1 somewhere. I hope you do read them for fun, and that you find them as therapeutic as I do.
Sorry you're getting the condescending snob treatment, instead of the sort of treatment you deserve from your book club -- you know, the kind athat starts off with "sit here in the comfy chair, and please have a popover..."
Posted by partlycloudy on January 18, 2005, at 17:53:30
In reply to Re: Unsolicited advice... » partlycloudy, posted by Racer on January 18, 2005, at 17:01:53
I'm doing very well with it - soaring with freedom, really. And my p-doc snorted too. Fer real! She said, you don't need friends like that! and I can agree, from my heart.
I think I can cobble a bunch Real Women to read with once I get back to comprehending paragraphs and chapters... Trazodone is finally wearing off, thank heavens....
Posted by Racer on January 28, 2005, at 11:13:59
In reply to Re: Unsolicited advice..., posted by partlycloudy on January 18, 2005, at 17:53:30
When you get those women together, don't overlook the Lemony Snicket books! Why let the kids have all the fun? They won't appreciate the books fully anyway...
Let's see, the series starts with "The Bad Beginning", goes on to "The Reptile Room", "The Wide Window", "The Miserable Mill", etc. There are eleven books in the series, and you can learn all sorts of wonderful things by reading them -- my favorite so far is the moral of the First World War: "Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand."
I think what the world -- or at least Florida -- needs is a book club for women that reads the Good Fun Books, Frothy Books, and stays away from the Read It Because It's Good For You books.
On the other hand, you could read "Anthony Adverse"... (Took me a couple of months -- I have my late Aunt Rac's edition, in one volume, so it's 1200 pages or so... I'd read steadily for a while, then look to see how far I'd gotten -- only to see that I'd barely made a dent. Since I was in a 'can sort of read' phase, that really disheartened me!)
Or you could focus on my former Major Interest: Eighteenth and Nineteeth Century Women Novelists. You could read things like "The Mysteries of Udolpho", "The Italian; or Confessional of the Black Penitents" (<<DO read that one -- just about the time you start to think there is a supernatural event going on, she knocks you down with something REALLY scary!), "Persuasion", "Oroonoko", and so many more!
Now, let's see if Amazon can find all those...
Posted by Racer on January 28, 2005, at 11:17:40
In reply to Re: Unsolicited advice..., posted by partlycloudy on January 18, 2005, at 17:53:30
Let me tell you, linking to those books was a bear! In the end, I had to delete a couple of them, after going through fifty or sixty "suggestions" from Amazon. Oh, well, you missed out on my brilliance...
One more to add, though:
"The Mother's Recompense" by Edith Wharton. Not strictly nineteenth century, but certainly close enough -- sort of a transitional novel, showing the morality of the nineteenth century colliding wiht the twentieth. It's a heart-wrencher, for those of us who are not especially romantic. If you have someone to hold your hand through it, read it. Do not read it alone within six months of a breakup...
Posted by Dr. Bob on January 28, 2005, at 18:46:11
In reply to PS » partlycloudy, posted by Racer on January 28, 2005, at 11:17:40
> Let me tell you, linking to those books was a bear! In the end, I had to delete a couple of them, after going through fifty or sixty "suggestions" from Amazon.
Thanks for all that work! Why did you have to delete any of them? Books don't *have* to be linked to Amazon...
Bob
Posted by Racer on January 28, 2005, at 20:41:04
In reply to Re: linking to those books » Racer, posted by Dr. Bob on January 28, 2005, at 18:46:11
>>Why did you have to delete any of them? Books don't *have* to be linked to Amazon...
I deleted them mostly because I couldn't think of the author's names, or wasn't sure if I'd gotten the title right... So, it was partly brain f*rt, partly that Amazon was so "helpful" in suggesting other books that might be on the subject, but not the title -- "Persuasion", for example, brought up a ton of books about marketing...
Posted by partlycloudy on February 1, 2005, at 16:06:47
In reply to Re: linking to those books » Dr. Bob, posted by Racer on January 28, 2005, at 20:41:04
Thought I'd let you know the links went to good use - I have a few on their way to me from the Great and Good Amazon.
I really appreciate the suggestions.
pc
Posted by Racer on February 1, 2005, at 17:07:42
In reply to Re: linking to those books, posted by partlycloudy on February 1, 2005, at 16:06:47
Thank you. I hope you enjoy them, and that they inspire you to form another group of like-minded women!
Right now, I'm on the last chapter of "Fasting Girls", after which it's a toss up between Hilde Bruch's "Eating Disorders: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa, and the Person Within" or another Lemony Snicket. Or maybe finally finish James Patterson's "Cat and Mouse", with Alex Cross. Or I might read Orson Scott Card's latest in the Alvin Maker series, "The Crystal City" -- Alvin Maker being the fictionalized Joseph Smith, which bothers me a bit more than maybe it should considering how good the first couple of books were. Seems as Scott gets older, he becomes more hardened in his Mormonism. Or I've got a copy of John Grisham's "The Last Juror" sitting patiently by, waiting its turn.
Oh! And Costco came through again! I picked up a copy of "Eats Shoots and Leaves" there the other day!
So, what's everyone else reading now?
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