Книгу my mad fat diary

It is bittersweet, and made my heart ache at the loss of a good friend, and whilst not everything wrapped up nicely in a little bow, it stayed true to real life, because well, it was real life. And I am forever grateful she was brave and unashamed of publising them, because they have made a big diffidence in my life and I am sure, in many others.

Sam Pivnik survived the two ghettoes set up in his home town of Bedzin and six months working on the processing ramp at Auschwitz, where prisoners were either taken away for entry to the camp or gassing.

Aged just eight and weighing just under three stone, she was diagnosed as anorexic. For the next eight years, Nikki was in and out of seven institutions, during which time she attempted suicide twice and had to be sedated up to four times a day so that she could be force-fed.

The Eagle Unbowed provides in a single volume the first truly comprehensive account of one of the most harrowing periods in modern history. Her glamorous, dynamic next-door neighbour, Juno, is also her best friend. For two weeks, she will live with another family in another town, while her opposite number will be moving in next door to Ally.

As Shore pulls the reader into her journey of discovery, reading the archival records of people who are themselves confronting the traumas of former lives, she reveals the intertwining of the personal and the political, of love and cruelty, of intimacy and betrayal.

Publishing my own diaries would be terrifying. I read the first volume of her mad, fat diaries and loved it so there was no way I could skip over this volume. Sometimes I wanted to shake her. I could even rela I think it must take a lot of guts to expose yourself the way Rae Earl has done.

The extremes that she went to in order to avoid eating and find ways to exercise excessively shocked doctors who have worked in the field for years. With searing honesty, Nikki recounts her long and painful road to recovery, how she has had to come to terms with the long-term ramifications of her illness, how she coped with being in the Big Brother house and how she uses her new-found fame to promote awareness of eating disorders and to help those who are suffering from similar problems.

The result is a lyrical, touching, and sometimes heartbreaking, portrayal of how history moves and what history means. Sure, she had been talking about Ann and Tony Lucy like they were one-dimensional Irish nut bags who had ruined her life for years, but there was always more to them and her own feelings than that.

I could even relate to some of the things she thought. I wanted her to focus on that instead of on the fact that she was mad and fat. My Madder Fatter Diary is bare and honest and I dare you to read it and not love it. Sep 28, Charis Hunter rated it really liked it. After reading the first instalment last year, I was blown away with how connected I felt to Rae and her story.

Yet the "good war" looks quite different when viewed from Lodz or Krakow than from London or Washington, D. Poland emerged from the war trapped behind the Iron Curtain, and it would be nearly a half-century until Poland gained the freedom that its partners had secured with the defeat of Hitler. Rescuing the stories of those who died and those who vanished, those who fought and those who escaped, Kochanski deftly reconstructs the world of wartime Poland in all its complexity?

Battersea, that teeming wasteland of brick south of the Thames, has found its poet in Nell Dunn and Up the Junction is her touchingly truthful and timeless testimonial to it. Through deft storytelling and charming illustration, MariNaomi carries us through first love and worst love, through heartbreak and bedroom experimentation, as she grows from misfit teen to young woman.

Invaded by both Germany and the Soviet Union, it remained under occupation by foreign armies from the first day of the war to the last. The conflict was brutal, as Polish armies battled the enemy on four different fronts. It was on Polish soil that the architects of the Final Solution assembled their most elaborate network of extermination camps, culminating in the deliberate destruction of millions of lives, including three million Polish Jews.

I was a bit weird. Like we all are. I then worked in radio for 15 years. Secondly as a breakfast presenter.

But for so many of us eating is associated with anguish and abstinence. From the first page this little book shows us how to think and feel differently about what we eat.

Kindle Edition , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about My Madder Fatter Diary , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about My Madder Fatter Diary. Lists with This Book. Feb 21, Michaela rated it really liked it Shelves: I think it must take a lot of guts to expose yourself the way Rae Earl has done.

With a wonderful cover illustration and new introduction by award-winning picture-book creator Jan Pienkowski. Since leaving the Big Brother house, she had forged a successful career for herself in presenting and writing. From the age of eight until she was 19, Nikki battled anorexia nervosa—but few cases have been quite as extreme as hers.

When I had finished I was wanting more, what happened next in her young life? Did she lose the weight she said she would? Did she get with her beloved Haddock? Was she finally learning to appreciate the wonderful Rae is was? I nearly screamed the ear off my sister with my sheer excitement! And after reading and finishing the book in one sitting I can proudly say it did not disappoint. Rae was back, and her satirical wit leapt off the page. It was wonderful returning to her life, like an old friend catching up.

This compelling book tells the story of an incredible journey. The exuberant, uninhibited, disparate world she found in the tired old streets and under the railway arches is recaptured in these closely linked sketches; and the result is pure alchemy. In the space of perfect pages, we witness clip-joint hustles, petty thieving, candid sexual encounters, casual birth and casual death. She has a superb gift for capturing colloquial speech and the characters observed in these pages convey that caustic, ironic, and compassionate feeling for life, in which a turn of phrase frequently contains startling flashes of poetry.

So that we eat when we are hungry, eat what we want to eat to satisfy us and stop when we are full. Each page contains an easily absorbed bite-sized statement to transform eating that hurts into eating that nourishes and calms. Finally bringing her popular webcomic to printed form, Alone Forever explores the joys of flying solo, free to focus on what really matters: The older generation are scarred by memories of war and separation while the younger members are caught between their cultural heritage and the pull of the land of their birth.

I was going through a particularly difficult time and related so much to what she was going through. The constant bullying she indured was similar to what was happening to me so I instantly connected to the pain she expressed in her diary entries. The bleak, numb throb of feeling unwanted and unloved was something that bound us both together. When I had finished I was wanting more, what After reading the first instalment last year, I was blown away with how connected I felt to Rae and her story.

It was lovely to have them all back, like a big school reunion. Whilst packed with humour, it also pulls on her heart strings as Rae continues to struggle with accepting herself and finding her place in the world. Her anxiety was my anxiety, her insecurities were my insecurities. It really helped me understand my own issues better as I worked through them with Rae. The ending was quite beautiful, with grown up, modern day Rae Earl filing us in with all the questions we so desperately wanted after the last diary entry in the book.

Thanks for telling us about the problem. The tattoo she flashes around says so. Natasha meets Alex, a girl her own age, who questions her about the tattoo. An awkward romance is born. To lose some excess fat, she starves herself of food Refresh and try again. Marci Shore builds her history around people she came to know over the course of the two decades since communism came to an end in Eastern Europe: For them, the post-communist moment has not closed but rather has summoned up the past: The end of communism had a dark side.

What she has been through while suffering from this illness will surprise and shock readers. At just seven years old, Nikki began feeling that she was overweight.

Jan 31, Harriet rated it really liked it. I have loved these books but have also found them uncomfortable reads. The important thing to me was it was all real.

I got in trouble. Or they were about people and I never wanted them to see it. I have a shed in my back garden I go to. Hattie is my third. My Madder Fatter Diary avg rating preview: My Madder Fatter Diary Goodreads rating: No trivia or quizzes yet. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Open Preview See a Problem? Return to Book Page.

Lovely because I spent a lot of time with good friends, music and tadpoles. I was a I come from Stamford in Lincolnshire.