Why she feels the need to put in that someone took a picture of her in fashionable outfit after the towers collapsed is lost on me outside of pure vanity. I found the chapter on 9/11 also particularly frustrating, but this may just be a personal problem as I was born close to NYC. Which is why I wanted to read this book in the first place. The only really enjoyable part of the book as when she is in rehab as you finally get to hear about her struggle with anorexia. Aside from her talking about her perfectionism, everything else just seems like filler. I understand that her backstory and personal dilemmas are supposed to add insight to her disorder, except it really doesn't. Secondly, she really only discusses her eating disorder about one third of the book.
This really seems like a facade that she is trying to pass of as her actual persona, but I am not her so i cannot say for sure. She never says or does anything anything mean, silly, or stupid (unless you count her laughing at her mom misunderstanding the lyrics to "Jammin") like any normal flawed person would do. It almost became laughable towards the end on what kind of strange or ridiculous thing she would say next. So as you can tell its hard for me to judge such a perfect person as she.Īll right, joking aside this author is EXTREMELY hard to relate to. Unlike other selfish children all she asked her grandmother for was a leaf for her birthday. Her biggest pet peeve is people saying Venice is a dead city (she says when people judge Venice they also judge her as well). Whether its constantly quoting to Shakespeare, Einstein or Dante to name a few or complaining her friends can't use a new repertoire she is always proving her intellectual superiority to everyone around her. Laura is not like us mere mortals, she only speaks in witty intellectual quotes or puns. Where to begin, well I guess the first thing to explain is Laura Moisin. Without preaching, this memoir offers a reassuring first-hand voice for the many who suffer silently, and provides strength for family and friends to help heal destructive behaviors. Already swirling in a state of confusion, the attacks on New Yorks World Trade Centeran event the author witnessed first-hand from her apartmentonly accelerate her path to further self-destruction.
Her therapist looks at her doubtfully and says, shockingly, No, I dont think youre an anorexic. Recognizing that she has a serious disorder, she quickly finds a therapist working at her university and openly confesses that shes an anorexic seeking treatment. Deceiving therapists by misleading them with symptoms of depression, her anorexia is prolonged, and her health deteriorates rapidly. After knowing friends with anorexia and being baffled by their behavior, Laura Moisin suddenly found herself prone to the same diseasenot eating at all and going weeks at a time consuming nothing but water and the occasional black coffee.
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