Shock horror - I've been spending money. Just went and blew $1.99 on a new LJ user head because it's Rene Magritte and that's all the reason I needed. I've also been feeding my 90's obsession buying old magazines on ebay, if I turn up anything scannable I'll post it here. Then I got sidetracked looking at 90's hairstyles. I love hairstyle models, ( Read more... )

I've been reading Peggy Claude-Pierre's book The Secret Language of Eating Disorders. It's...very much of its time, it was published in 1997 and the lack of references to genetic/biologicalfactors is pretty glaring. It's interesting how even ED literature for mass consumption is much more aware of the biological findings these days and how much the ( Read more... )

Just finished reading the Passion of Alice by Stephanie Grant. I love it, for what it is - a novel about a woman struggling to gain self knowledge. Other reviewers have said it's a coming out novel, a lesbian novel, an anorexia novel. I think all those other themes are just scenery. Which is why I'm face-palming at the amazon reviews which range ( Read more... )

(x-posted apologies for any duplication!)
I'm thinking of buying a few ED books from Amazon - has anyone got an opinion on any of the following?
I'm definately going for The Passion of Alice
Also looking at:-
The Owl was a Bakers Daughter
Eating in the Light of the Moon
The Hungry Self
Anorexics on Anorexia
Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa
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