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Melody Murray's Books

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Nigella Christmas: Food, Family, Friends, Festivities
Nigella Lawson, Lis Parsons
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause
Judy Norsigian, Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Vivian Pinn

The Great Fitness Experiment: One Year of Trying Everything

The Great Fitness Experiment: One Year of Trying Everything - Charlotte Hilton Andersen I have multiple issues with this blog-to-book. The most glaring is that Andersen has disordered eating and is a compulsive over-exerciser. Her BMI is well below normal, and she doesn't menstruate because her body fat percentage is so low. She also does not actually do the workouts/diets that she claims to be trying each month- she either doesn't buy the book and cobbles together what she thinks the workout is from the internet, or she modifies the diet. Andersen is a good writer, and she can be funny. She also has some serious essays about her disordered eating, and about sexual abuse and other issues from her past, and those were interesting and seemed pretty insightful. Overall, though, this is one I could have lived without.