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Body Story

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I find it odd that nobody has reviewed this book yet. I think it is extremely creative and beautiful. The chapters are labeled poetically; Virgin Body, Girl Body, Starving Body, Wedding Body, Giving Birth, and Blind Spot are most of them. These chapters are not only validating and insightful to the troubles of eating disordered women but also transcend the eating disordered "barrier" by relating fully to all women. At the end of the book the author, a Professor of French at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, provides study questions and discussion topics for group reading making the book ideal for sharing and book clubs. This book is significant and a great work by a strong and very real woman. Do give it a read. You will like it!

I picked this book at random to read for a creative writing class. I bought it off amazon, and when it arrived I noticed that a library had sold it to me. This was already a bad sign, this happens after a book is not rented out for a long time. I read the first chapter, which mostly consisted of every contrast of the "light/dark" kind of feel. It was cliche and overall boring. As I read the rest of the book I do not feel like DePree really went into her anorexia, but used this book as a chance to talk about her accomplishments...... her mot favorite being her daughters. This was cute, except she mentioned how she was able to recover and have two daughters, many many times. Her tone came across more pious than anything, but every once and a while she would include brief moments of humor, I wish there were more. If I did not have to finish this book for the class, I wouldn't have. It didn't seem original. The writing style was collage like, and also every paragraph was separated by a space. I appreciate DePree's effort to be different, but I found it annoying to read. I would not recommend this book, for a book so small it seemed to last quite a long time.