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  • Paperback: 334 pages
  • Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (March 11, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1477818073
  • ISBN-13: 978-1477818077
  • Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.9 x 8.2 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsHilarious, poignant memoir
By Alysa H. on March 20, 2014
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There's a feeling I get whenever I encounter the memoirs of non-famous people with whose work I'm not familiar. That question of "So, why do I care about [name of person] enough to read a book about their life?"

In the case of Tim Anderson's Sweet Tooth, that question is basically a moot point, because the writing is so hilarious that I can see myself reading this book a dozen times and always laughing out loud. And despite the specificity of his late-1980s/early-1990s struggles as a gay diabetic high school (and later college) student, there is quite a lot of universality to the way he depicts the awkwardness of growing up and dealing with one's adolescent angst.

Things that happen to one's teenaged self often feel like epic tragedies while they're occurring, but years later those things take on comical tones. It's not nice to laugh at other people's pain, but laughing WITH other people at their former selves, in retrospect, can be a lovely and cathartic experience. It's like that trend in Open Mic nights where adults read aloud from their ancient middle-school diaries.

Although I'm almost a decade younger than Anderson, there wasn't a single pop-culture reference that I didn't get (though this might not be the case for readers with different musical tastes). The only real criticism I would give is that the official book description misleads a little with its emphasis on Anderson's origins in North Carolina, when it could have been set practically anywhere in the U.S. because the book doesn't dwell on anything particularly "Southern".

I received a review copy of this book via NetGalley.
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3.0 out of 5 starsMore saccharin than sweet
By DreamSpeaker on June 27, 2014
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As a memoir goes, the reader sees a side of diabetes rarely presented. However, after reading chapter after chapter of diabetic attacks, the reader wonders if the author needs a shrink more than insulin. Enough is enough. Too little time was spent on the personal feelings and relationships that actually worked for this apparently self-destructive personality. I wanted to know more about how the author actually realizes love for himself and the only character who seems to have the balls to end the destructive behavior: Jimmy.
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3.0 out of 5 starsAmusing, but wears thin after a while
By Silea VINE VOICE on August 4, 2014
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There's no real sense of progress in this book. Tim starts off the book as a kid bent on rebellion and poorly controlling his diabetes. He ends it as a young man bent on rebellion and poorly controlling his diabetes. Sure, the rebellion changes form, from stealing porn mags to doing speed in a Manchester gay nightclub, but the feel is the same. What starts out laugh-out-loud funny earns only little snorts after 100 pages, and nothing at all by the end.

The interstitial chapters, in which we watch Tim from a third-person perspective as he blunders into yet another blood sugar crisis, suffer the same fading value. At first, we feel bad for him, just a teenager trying to wrestle with all the normal teenager problems plus suddenly finding out his pancreas hates him. But by the time he's off at college, he really should know better, and instead of laughing with him in retrospect, i found myself wanting to slap him and say 'get it together, man'.

I imagine this book might have more value to others. For example, young gay men from the south, or diabetic social rebels. I could believe that someone more invested in the author's personal struggles would be carried on by his story more than i was. But i, alas, was not.
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2.0 out of 5 starsit was a good start
By catherine m avina on August 13, 2014
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It was a good start, I was into it but it got really repetitive. You would think it was a tale of an actually morbidly obese person the endless listing of chocolate and snack ingredients. Sometimes less is more, good style at start but needed more diversity.
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3.0 out of 5 starsSweet Tooth : A Memoir
By GA buyer on June 21, 2014
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I liked this memoir of a youth who painfully discovers that he not only has a thing for hot guys, but he also has Type I diabetes. Now this was several decades back, when it was way more of a time consuming drag to have Type I diabetes, not to mention hard on your social life if you were lucky enough to have one. But Tim manages to find ways to work it to his advantage at times, as you will find, sometimes with comical outcomes.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThis book should be mandatory reading for all teens diagnosed with juvenile diabetes
By Susan Reaves on June 13, 2014
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I can't remember how this book entered the slip stream of my search for something to read on my Kindle, but appear it did. I am an older adult, recently diagnosed with diabetes, so that caught my eye. I am a retired social worker who dealt with three children/teens who had a sudden onset of Type 1 diabetes so that caught my eye. (One of those kids actually died as a result of his diabetes.) I like coming of age stories, including gay coming of age stories, so that caught my eye. Well, this book was just perfect. I enjoyed it very much.

With the three young people I dealt with personally as a social worker, I'd say they all followed the same pattern as the author. Taking chances. Playing with the odds. Episodes of very high and very low blood sugars. What a curse to be diagnosed as a teen when you are struggling to be one of the crowd. And when you don't want adults telling you what to do. For the author, the pathos of thinking his gay masturbation fantasies had something to do with his diabetes diagnosis with no one to talk to about that was understandable and heart breaking. I must say, though, the author's sense of humour made this a very palatable read. His journey into adulthood and his personal HEA with a husband who supported him in a no nonsense way from the beginning was also heart warming.

I liked this book so much that I purchased the author's other memoir for a friend for his birthday since my friend has been tall, White and gay in several Asian countries. I may just have to download it myself since I like the author both as a person and a writer.
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5.0 out of 5 starsHumorous and touching coming of age story

A tart, but never sickly sweet memoir which serves up humor and heartache in equal measure. It tells Tim's story of growing up gay in North Carolina, his preoccupation with sweets,... Read more

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Laugh out loud funny. Highly relateable and charming. I can't wait to read more by this author.

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There were admittedly times where I tired of his graphic, gay sex fantasies--but what the hell do I know? I am very straight and very female. Read more

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