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Nigella Christmas: Food, Family, Friends, Festivities
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause
The Body Shop: Parties, Pills, and Pumping Iron -- Or, My Life in the Age of Muscle
Solotaroff is self-deprecating and wry as he documents his nightmare journey into steroid use in the 70s. He also abused drugs and alcohol and dancing (seriously). The stories are hair-raising and all too human, the writing is very good though it does descend into the purple on occasion. Some of the passages about how the author reacted to the pure animal joy of weightlifting certainly resonated with me. The parts that were more alien, about being a genetically non-muscular adolescent male, were quite interesting. Very readable.
