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16
Teaser Tuesdays: Purge
2009 at 8am Posted by Rebecca Joines Schinsky
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
- Grab your current read
- Open to a random page
- Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
- BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
- Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
I started Nicole Johns’s memoir Purge: Rehab Diaries last night and was tempted to stay up way past my bedtime to keep reading. In the opening chapters, Johns includes journal entries that describe her struggle with an eating disorder. Here’s an excerpt—more than 2 sentence, I couldn’t help it— from page 16:
I’m a pro. No one needs to know. My guitly secret. It’s my Incredible Shrinking Woman act. I want to shrink into oblivion. Get to the bare bones, the essentials. I throw up my emotions. My grief, my secrets. I starve away into nothingness, flatness.
Johns’s writing has such a sense of urgency and immediacy. She brings us right into the room with her, into her thoughts and rollercoastering emotions, and though it’s difficult subject matter, I can’t seem to stay away.
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Great teaser. The writing does have that sense of urgency. I’m not sure how much I would like it, but look forward to hearing what you think when you’re done.
I’m reading–actually, I’m reveling in–The Habit of Being, the collected letters of Flannery O’Connor.
I can tell by the teaser that it’s hard to put down!
That’s a great teaser. Addiction as a whole is pretty intense so I would expect no less from a book about addiction.
Truly disturbing but fascinating!!!
Wow, this does sound fascinating! Can’t wait to read your review!
Great teaser; sounds disturbing .
That books sounds like there will be quite a few emotional roller coasters in there. It sounds like a great book to read to understand what people who are suffering with an illness go through and think about themselves and the situation.