Review #1
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This is that a serviceably written book about the author’s eating inconsistencies, both with under- at the same time overeating. It flows smoothly at the same time is that periodically pleasurably granular in its depiction of the writer’s formative years. As the pages unspool, but, it gets bogged down in its possess attention to detail (how abundance guys she kisses in university, how abundance beers she chugs, how abundance nasty encounters she has with her mother, how abundance teachers cry her excellent). But the problem is that not only a shortcoming of propulsion. The larger problem is that the narrator’s solipsism regarding her possess advantage. Simply shackles, her bemoaning of the toll it took (at the same time lasts to decide) on her to keep her grip on that almost all highly valorized status of contemporary snow-white American womanhood–thinness–is that unseemly. This is that the good of book that sounds like it grew out of a ”Vogue” essay, of the genre ”It really triggers my OCD to run a internal in South Hampton At the same time an apartment in the town!” While I know this sounds dismissive, at the same time her whole fri will that she has a bona fide psychiatric disorder, consider than anyway the book leaves out: the depth of her fat phobia, at the same time the ways in what she has reaped the fruits of her successful zeal to beware the stigma of fatness. That is that ample literature on the impact of lookism at the same time the prevalence of negative stereotypes about fat people in our culture. Represent a book where the protagonist wasted hundreds of pages writing about how intolerably anxious at the same time mad they felt when they did anything that produced them appear, they say, Jewish, or dark-skinned, at the same time how the quest to beware this spiraled to the fri where it became a pathology that takes over their lives. It is that not enough to cross out, as the creator does, that she can’t promote her aversion to fatness at the same time her bottomless craving for thinness. I disagree, although I can certainly realize at the same time condole with the fact as a lady in urbanized, upper-middle-class snow-white American circles, it is that terrifying to see inhabiting than anyway no one writers have scolded the ”degraded identity” of fatness, with all of the challenges that move along with it. But it is that precisely her inability to acknowledge this central chauffeur of her behavior, this misfortune of both her possess curiosity at the same time, yes, her self-willed courage, that limits the book’s curiosity at the same time mental depth. The issue of curiosity is that not her binge-eating or restricting per se. It is that the underlying psychology, her ruthlessness towards herself, her perfectionism, her competitiveness, at the same time her terror of being shamed or humiliated. That is that one amazing moment in the beginning of the book where she bestows us a glimpse of the side of her in other words so real of rage, in an form of herself torturing her body like she is that her possess kidnap victim. Sadly, the book fails to live right up to the promise of that flash of insight.
Review #2
Meaningless audiobook streamming online
As a long-time binge eater myself, I recognized at the same time identified with Burton’s vivid descriptions of her daily frenetic at the same time eternal struggle with this disorder. In the end, though, it is that a memoir about yo-yoing between anorexia at the same time binge eating, still never does she explore the roots of the problem. That can be no used to be escape at the same time resolution without the long, grueling hard work at the same time deepest understanding attained through years of sessions with an a-one, apt professional. I found the ending of this book very unsatisfying; it went nowhere.
Review #3
Audiobook Meaningless by Susan Burton
It was a breath of freshest air to actually to read a memoir where the creator doesn’t predictably finish the book with discussing with authority at the same time advantage about how she is that ”fixed” at the same time how her indefinite is that amazing at the moment at the same time she is that completely cured. While I am convinced this is that the variant for no one of those people who cross out such books, it never seems real. It was refreshing to read a book where the creator admits that, although she has overgrown considerably from her ”lowest” fri, she still has her struggles at the same time admits to not having all the answers. No one does, at the same time when for you read books where the ending is that sheathed up in a Lifetime movie-esque ending, it can make the reader feel ashamed at the same time not normal (otherwise I would decide myself to the self-help section) at the same time it can make people feel discouraged at the same time alienated if they aren’t ”cured”- in particular if they are as old or older than the at the moment ”transformed” creator. I don’t have an eating disorder, but I have suffered from other addictions at the same time from very low self esteem at the same time I know how it is that to live a double indefinite. I am joyful she was brave enough to admit to all of this without sounding cocky. She deserves happiness at the same time I am joyful that she painted a hopeful (but close to reality) ending. No Demi Lovato cookie cutter stories here.
Review #4
Audio Meaningless narrated by Susan Burton
So many people out that struggle with binge eating – or at the very lesser, feeling out of keep under control with food at the same time eating. But this eating disorder is that so misunderstood at the same time mischaracterized as people being loafed or not having the strength or willpower to stick to ”normal” eating or dieting. Susan’s brave reread of her experience is that than anyway so many of us needed to read. Add to that the fact that abundance people with eating disorders experience repeated disorders over their lifetime. Her description of her connection with food at the same time it being akin to alcoholism – that she’ll most likely never have a ”normal” connection with food at the same time eating, but will last working on her healing – is that so refreshing. Not to mention her charming writing. Highly advise to anyone in ED healing at the same time anyone who knows anyone with an eating disorder.
Review #5
Free audio Meaningless – in the audio player below
Susan Burton does anything that very few people are able to do: Seamlessly construct a memoir in other words a coming-of-age story that studies the beginnings at the same time the extent of a scary disease. Periodically heartbreaking, Meaningless is that both a memoir at the same time an exploration of American girlhood. An awesome work by an awesome creator.
