I'm Glad My Mom Died, by Jennette McCurdy Buy used or new @SecondSale.com My life purpose has always been to make Mom happy, to be who she wants me to be. So without Mom, who am I supposed to be now? I only know what iCarly, a former Nickelodeon TV show about three friends who... Continue Reading →
Recent Foodie Reads: Food as Philosophy, Healing Technique, and Revolution
Great British Bake Off contestant and Guardian columnist Ruby Tandoh's book melding food, memoir, and life philosophy, Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want, has been a UK bestseller since its 2018 release, and apparently is getting a US release next month, although the Queens Public Library already had it. I read it... Continue Reading →
The Complicated Story of Women, Alcohol, and Sobriety
Book review: Quit Like a Woman, by Holly Whitaker (Amazon / Book Depository) Women are drinking more than we ever have before. Between 2002 and 2012, the rates of alcohol addiction among women rose by 84 percent—as in, it nearly doubled. One in ten adult American women will die an alcohol-related death, and from 2007... Continue Reading →
How the Instinct to Eat Can Go Wrong: Personal Stories of Food Anxieties
Book review: The Eating Instinct, by Virginia Sole-Smith Book Depository Nutrition has become a permanently unsolvable Rubik's Cube. So we read more books, pin more blog posts, buy more products, and sign up for more classes and consultations. And we don't realize how many of the so-called experts guiding us through this new and constantly... Continue Reading →
Roxane Gay on Hunger in Its Many Forms
Book review: Hunger, by Roxane Gay (Amazon / Book Depository) The story of my body is not a story of triumph. This is not a weight-loss memoir. There will be no picture of a thin version of me, my slender body emblazoned across this book's cover, with me standing in one leg of my former,... Continue Reading →