Amazon .com Lesbian Crushes
My review -
I
doubt I would have picked up this book had it not been a suggested group read.
It really didn’t seem to have anything in it to interest me. Once I started, I
was unable to stop reading it. The first part of the book, dealing with
sexuality and its discovery while the writer was at university, took me back to
my own university days. They offered the maximum of temptation and the maximum
of opportunity. We see the author’s self-doubt, the attempts at chatting up
fellow students of both sexes, and fumbling explorations. It made me aware of
something I knew on an intellectual level – that we are all the same whether
straight or gay. We are all looking for love and for someone to love in return.
I
found the second part of the book, although it was heavily dependent upon the
feelings in the first, a bit less of a compelling read. I’m a bit of a foodie
and I couldn’t relate to the binge eating and attempts to purge the body
afterwards. I found it really interesting that, although the author made
herself a strict timetable of days when she ate absolutely nothing and
interspersed them with the occasional day when she was ‘allowed’ food, she
would dread the food days because she knew she would binge.
The
book was simply and grippingly written, coming as it does in the form of a
diary. Things were not dwelt upon or fluffed out for effect. The starkness was
in many cases the strength of the writing. This is a book which will lead you
to understanding.
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