Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (P.S.) by Marya Hornbacher
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Book Reviews of Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (P.S.)
Book Review: Hard to read but an important story to tell
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't have an eating disorder (although I am somewhat overweight) so really couldn't relate, but how anyone could think this book glamorizes ANY kind of addictive behavior boggles my mind.
She did it all - eating disorder, drugs, sexual promiscuity - and all of them at incredibly early ages. She also must have had the most inattentive parents on earth. HOW could a child menstruate for TWO YEARS before her parents found out?
She and Julian divorced after the book came out; she has remarried and is childless. Whether her eating disorder had anything to do with this is not known to me and is only her business.
Her story needed to be told, and she did an exceptional job of doing so.
Book Review: wasted
Summary: 5 Stars
This book was so very honest that I made my twin sister read it to have some understanding about my ED. My own husband did not even know I had an ED for years until I left him a letter on the dinner table one night. I wish I had Marya's Strength. This book can be a trigger and I found myself reading certain parts over and over again just not to feel alone when I was re-living the same habbits of this horrible disease that she was. I like to think That I have recovered and I still pull "Wasted" off the book shelf once on a while and re-read it. I am thankful for Marya's complete honesty no matter how ugly it gets because I was able to just hand this book to my family and give them a sense of understanding.Book Review: Beautiful and Dead-On
Summary: 5 Stars
Quite simply the best memoir ever written on the subject. Marya Hornbacher has an astounding way with words and I felt as though I was reading my own biography at many points. I have read nearly every book available on the subject as I have struggled back and forth with Bulimia and Anorexia Nervosa for the better part of 12 years and have yet to find anything to compares to this book. I recommend this book not only to sufferers, but to anyone looking to gain insight into the thought process of someone with an eating disorder. This book is nothing short of a triumph on Hornbacher's part and her honesty in dealing with this issue should be an example to all others.Book Review: Amazing
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great book. Myra Hornbacher is brutally honest in this memoir. She doesn't sugarcoat anything and shows the reader the truely ugly and dangerous side to eating disorders. It a book every young girl and woman should read, especially in our society today where thinness is emphasized and actresses and models today are just shrinking and shrinking to the point where they just look like skeletons. This book opens the reader's eye to the horror of eating disorders and how it truely is a disease that needs understanding. This is an easy read considering the subject matter and I've read it a dozen times. Highly recommend it.Book Review: excellent biography
Summary: 5 Stars
As a mother to a teenage girl with an eating disorder, I was able to identify (sometimes uncomfortably too close to home) with Marya Hornbacher. It was a good insight to see that this horrible illness begins at a very early age, how not to blame ourselves as parents, and how it is a daily battle for the person with the illness.
I read this book over a period of a week and haven't stopped remarking on it to people I know, especially other parents of children/teenagers with eating disorders.
This book came from the gut and goes directly into the readers'.
Adina