Posts filed under 'Book Club'
Blog Tour: Author Shannon Cutts Stops By
As she is busy promoting her book, Shannon Cutts, author of Beating Ana: How to Outsmart Your Eating Disorder and Take Your Life Back took the time to stop by Tales of a (Recovering) Disordered Eater.
Now that I’ve read and reviewed her book, it was time to ask Shannon some questions.
Below are my questions and Shannon’s answers, verbatim. I hope you will find her words as powerful as I did.
But before I share our interview, I’d like to extend a special thank you to, Shannon, for taking the time to so Honestly, Openly and Willingly (H.O.W.) answer my questions. I appreciate it so very much, and I know my readers will, too. Best of luck to you on your book tour/blog tour. You’re an inspiration to us all.
Recovery IS possible; she’s living proof. (more…)
2 comments April 6, 2009
Book Giveaway: Beating Ana by Shannon Cutts
In honor of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, I was recently contacted about the upcoming release of the new book, Beating Ana: How to Outsmart Your Eating Disorder and Take Your Life Back by author Shannon Cutts.
As part of her blogosphere book tour to promote her new book. I will be receiving a copy to review shortly, and I wanted to offer one of my readers an opportunity to win a free copy of her book.
In a couple weeks, I will be interviewing Shannon here on my blog, after I have read/review the book myself.
According to materials I received, “In Beating Ana, Shannon reveals her own struggle with ED, introduces readers of six amazing women who have fought the same battle, and focuses on the need for those who suffer from eating disorders to look to mentors and sponsors to enable them to win.” (more…)
20 comments February 21, 2009
Book Update
My inter-library loan was taking too darn long, so I hit up B&N Friday night after we’d gone out to dinner with friends and picked up Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters.
I literally had trouble putting it down, and found myself reading til about 2 a.m.! I’m about a third of the way through now, and could see myself finishing it by mid-week.
Courtney Martin’s style is so easy, and for someone who is only 25, she writes like a pro about the preoccupation young women today feel towards their bodies.
Instead of being “good girls” like our moms were maybe taught to be, our generation somehow got the notion we need to be “perfect girls,” a third wave of “feminism” where body-loathing is the norm, a now-essential part of being female. (more…)
20 comments November 17, 2008
