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Born Round
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Frank Bruni
Vi Blanchard
, August 20, 2009
Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater is to the disease of compulsive eating what The Lost Weekend was to alcoholism. Frank Bruni serves up a surprisingly digestible bouillabaisse of eclectic ingredients that include autobiography, celebrity, fad dieting, haute cuisine and addiction. This sometimes rollicking, sometimes sobering, always engaging tale of a food fiend turned restaurant critic is a textbook case history of a compulsive eater that manages to illuminate this epidemic American addiction in a palatable serving of anecdotes, recipes and family history. Born into an Italian family with big big appetites, Bruni knows from childhood that when it comes to food, he is different. Bruni describes a ferocious infant appetite and suggests that he was a bulimic, even in the high chair. As his eating takes him on an odyssey of grotesque binges, fad diets, compulsive exercise, Mexican diet pills, fasting, laxatives, denial, and obesity, he finds his true calling as the restaurant reviewer for The New York Times. Like an alcoholic wine critic, he embarks on a career binge wherein he is given the green light to lovingly indulge in and describe his addictive excesses. Somehow, he makes a deal with his addiction, trading discipline for recovery, managing to manage his weight for a time, but still wondering if he will ever be relieved of his compulsion to eat. Discipline is fine for awhile, but then an epic binge teaches him that he cannot stop. He throws in the towel and leaves the restaurant reviewing to someone else with leaner appetites. This story is wildly insightful about the disease of compulsive eating without being a self-indulgent addiction memoir. Instead, it lays bare the heartbreaking reality that is the life of a food addict, and helps to educate us all about a disease that is killing more of us than we know. Somehow, this is a really entertaining read, and that's a good thing, because this is tough stuff to digest. Tough, but well worth the effort.
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Love Machine
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Jacqueline Susann
Vi Blanchard
, February 07, 2007
Yummy! The girl glitterati of Rat Pack era New York are in a lather over sexy television bigwig Robin Stone. But these models, actresses and showgirls wouldn't be catfighting over this stud if they knew about his problems in the sack. Suffice to say that Robin's got a mommy thing and it ain't pretty. Once again, trash diva Jacqueline Susann has left us with a luscious slice of beach reading that's chock-full of lame Freudianism and top-shelf naughtiness. Nowhere else but in a JS novel will you EVER hear a character say, "Her c--ze has seen more action than the Lincoln Tunnel..." And that's just scratching the sidewalls. God bless you Jackie S!
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Girls In 3 B
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Valerie Taylor
Vi Blanchard
, February 03, 2007
This little dilly inspired the melodramatic but weirdly progressive cartoon soap opera, "The Girls in Apartment 3G." It's got it all: sordid beatnik drug parties, mop-haired anti-establishment tools, vague father-daughter incest, lesbianism... WHEW! With all the action they've got going on, it's amazing these girls are able to pay the rent. Oh wait. One of them is doing it with the super, so they get a break on their monthly bill. Why waste your time on People Magazine when you can spend an hour with the Girls in 3-B?
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Joseph Campbell Companion Reflections on the Art of Living
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Diane K Osbon
Vi Blanchard
, January 31, 2007
First of all, the publisher's comments are for the wrong book! This intimate collection of conversations with Joseph Campbell is the kind of book you keep beside your bed and return to again and again. With thoughts on everything from the primal dance between hunter and hunted to the transcendent nature of passionate love, this is a book to keep forever and give away too. It's The Bible for a reader whose spirit looks beyond space, time, religion and ego to something as far away and enigmatic as the beating of his own heart.
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Women in the Shadows
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Ann Bannon
Vi Blanchard
, January 30, 2007
Delicious! You cannot call yourself a fan of this genre if you haven't read this book and its four companion books: Odd Girl Out, Beebo Brinker and Journey to a Woman. This five-book epic is the definition of dyke drama, complete with Eisenhower-era chinos, real gin martinis, beatniks and bombshells. Here, butches and femmes, gay boys and button-down daddies hit the skids in a booze-soaked story of Greenwich Village's dark homo underworld. You don't have to be a lez to succumb to this sinful slice of self-indulgence.
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Odd Girl Out
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Ann Bannon
Vi Blanchard
, January 30, 2007
Delicious! You cannot call yourself a fan of this genre if you haven't read this book and its four companion books: Beebo Brinker, Women in the Shadows, and Journey to a Woman. This five-book epic is the definition of dyke drama, complete with Eisenhower-era chinos, real gin martinis, beatniks and bombshells. And if you ever wondered what really goes on in a sorority, you won't want to miss Odd Girl Out. Trust me, you don't have to be a lez to succumb to this sinful slice of self-indulgence.
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Beebo Brinker
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Ann Bannon
Vi Blanchard
, January 30, 2007
Delicious! You cannot call yourself a fan of this genre if you haven't read this book and its four companion books: Odd Girl Out, Women in the Shadows, and Journey to a Woman. This five-book epic is the definition of dyke drama, complete with Eisenhower-era chinos, real gin martinis, beatniks and bombshells. You don't have to be a lez to succumb to this sinful slice of self-indulgence. If you're looking at Beebo, RUN TO HER!
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