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I've put off reviewing this book for some time on account of the fact Marya's both a friend and the editor of my novel, Hunger for Life . But having reminded myself that I read the book long before Marya and I became friends, and that it meant a great to me even before we got to know one another, I t Leggi tutto

Possibly the finest auto-biography I have ever read. People who have suffered from EDs will complain that this book is packed full of triggers, but so is America's Next Top Model, and I can't say anything about the quality of THAT writing. This book is a genuine, gripping story of a youth literally

3.5 stars I once had an eating disorder several years ago, so I appreciate Marya Hornbacher's unflinching honesty in Wasted . She holds nothing back in this memoir, sharing the immense pain that accompanies anorexia and bulimia: the preoccupation with calories that takes over your life, the obsession Leggi tutto

It would be tacky to put this on my "food" shelf, wouldn't it? But I did get so hungry while reading it that I got up and made spaghetti carbonara. It was delicious. So this is a memoir of the author's ten-year struggle with bulimia and anorexia. I found it different from other works I've read on eat Leggi tutto

Marya is a fantastic fucking memoirist. There are a couple reasons this is all the more incredible: First, that she'd found such a voice and command of prose at 23, and second, that a 23 year-old would have lived a life worth writing about. The language is appropriately jagged, with short, sharp sen Leggi tutto

I'm ambivalent about this book. Certainly, at times, she pulled no punches...yet at other times, still a bit under the sway of her disorder, she seemed to be bragging about her "successes" in the extremes of her eating disorder. She wasn't really healthy yet, and that came through in ways she probab Leggi tutto

I am writing this with tears streaming down my face. Tears of sadness, anger, injustice. This is a detailed and disturbingly honest memoir of Marya’s heartbreaking experience with bulimia and anorexia. But it is SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT. This shows that there is no one problem, not one blameworthy poi Leggi tutto