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Brave Girl Eating

9780062008619 When I wasn't busy blogging about Charles Bukowski's birthday (shameless plug, I know), I happened to catch Jezebel's post on Harriet Brown's Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia.  Having come from a family where eating disorders were fairly common, Brown's argument for a family-based method of recovery really hits home.  I appreciate the point she makes regarding our perception of eating disorders: the way we correlate them with extremes, whether it's stick-thinness or morbid obesity.  Many victims do, in fact, suffer invisibly. 

Do you want to know more about Brave Girl Eating? Browse inside the book, and check out these stellar pre-publication quotes:

“Harriet Brown’s Brave Girl Eating is an up close and personal account of one family’s struggle to help a child with anorexia nervosa. What sets this book apart is the author’s incorporation of clinical research findings from the field of eating disorders into the story of one family’s struggle. Ms. Brown’s tale of how her family was able to participate in her daughter’s recovery process is a compelling story of family strength and an inspiring story for all of us committed to treating individuals with eating disorders.”— Evelyn Attia, MD, Director, Center for Eating Disorders, Columbia University Medical Center, Weill Cornell Medical College

“As a woman who once knew the grip of a life-controlling eating disorder, I held my breath reading Harriet Brown’s story. As a mother of daughters, I wept for her. Then cheered.”— Joyce Maynard

“Brave Girl Eating is one of the most up to date, relevant and honest accounts of one family’s battle with the life threatening challenges of anorexia. Brown has masterfully woven science, history and heart throughout this compelling and tender story. Brave Girl Eating was fortunate to have one brave family.”— Lynn S. Grefe, Chief Executive Officer, National Eating Disorders Association

“Brave Girl Eating is a story that gets too close for comfort; it’s an honest account of the toll anorexia takes on the writer’s family and their tenacious, loving efforts to fight back. Harriet Brown is an intelligent, elegant writer and this book offers both solace and useful information for families struggling with eating disorders.”— Audrey Niffenegger  

-Kayleigh

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It’s not too late to catch Nancy Pearl and Lizzie Skurnick!

Yesterday we hosted a fantastic interview with Lizzie Skurnick and Nancy Pearl on our Blog Talk Radio show (you might have read about it here and here).  Nancy and Lizzie dished on both popular and underrated YA classics, and there was certainly plenty to talk about.  If you didn't get a chance to tune in, the show is now archived for your listening pleasure.  Enjoy! 

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Tune in to Blog Talk Radio Tomorrow!

Shelf Discovery

Bloggers are buzzing about our latest Blog Talk Radio interview! Tomorrow, on Wednesday September 23rd at 3 pm EST, librarian extraordinaire Nancy Pearl will be interviewing Lizzie Skurnick, Jezebel contributor and the author of Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading.  A special thanks to the following bloggers who have helped spread the word: Pop Culture Junkie, Five Minutes for Books, Galleysmith, A Reader's Respite, Books, Movies and Chinese Food, Booking Mama, Bookfan, and Everyday I Write the Book. 

If you'd like to write or call into the interview, we'll send you a complimentary copy of Shelf Discovery.  Just be sure to register here before the show starts.  Click here for info on the interview, check out Lizzie's love letter to librarians, and be sure to browse inside.

-Kayleigh

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Lizzie Skurnick Loves Libraries!

Shelf Discovery The following is a love letter to librarians from Lizzie Skurnick, author of the recently published Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading,  a sentimental look-back to the children’s and YA books we loved in our youth.

Who could forget Beverly Cleary’s Fifteen and Lois Duncan’s When the Bough Breaks — books that dealt with the lives and dramas of adolescent girls on their own terms, in their own worlds?
 
Shelf Discovery is a funny look at these important and, for many adolescent girls, life-changing books. It includes essays from other writers on their favorite well-and little-known teen books and authors, in-depth essays about the leading teen authors, a cover gallery, “extra credit” reading lists, plus an online component with Q&As from famous YA authors featured in the book, vintage cover art, a “plotfinder” section, recipes for unforgettable meals from YA books (Harriet’s tomato sandwich, anyone?), book club guides, and a place for readers to post their own memories and insights.

So…to the lucky first 25 who reply to this post, we will send a complimentary copy of Shelf Discovery.  We’d love to hear what you think of this trip down memory lane, so send in your reviews and we’ll gladly post them.  Happy Reading!

Dear Librarian,

I can still remember the exact cover of the book (pink plastic dust jacket, fraying) and where it was shelved (fourth bookcase on the right towards the back, middle of the second shelf from top). The spine had long since been rubbed to illegibility, and, looked at from the side, the crumbling pages were jagged, like teeth. The condition of the book may have been due to the fact that my grade school library in Englewood, NJ simply was in dire need of funding. But I suspect I inflicted much of this damage personally—since for a period of some months, that copy of Louisa May Alcott’s An Old-Fashioned Girl was, twice a week, the only one I ever stamped out.

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