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    Lesbian Crushes and Bulimia: A Diary on How I Acquired my Eating Disorder

    By Natasha Holme

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    About this ebook

    In 1989 nineteen-year-old Natasha is obsessively in love with her former teacher, Miss Williams. 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.

    In this real-life teenage diary Natasha records her panic at a looming LESBIAN relationship. To lose some excess fat, she starves herself of food ... whilst working in a chip shop. And just to make sure she's gay, Natasha drags five boys into bed in the space of a week, a sin for which the sexuality police threaten to kick her out of the university Lesbian and Gay Society.

    In this coming out story and love story, Natasha struggles with clumsy attempts at heterosexuality, the sickening effects of weight loss techniques, disapproving shaven-headed lesbians, and sexual harassment in the chip shop.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNatasha Holme
    Release dateOct 2, 2012
    ISBN9781301985470
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    Lesbian Crushes and Bulimia: A Diary on How I Acquired my Eating Disorder
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    Natasha Holme

    Probably the most prolific diary writer in the history of the world, I have been obsessively recording my crushes on females since the age of fourteen. I currently clock up half a million words per year, but never let on to the woman I'm dating that I jot down everything she says and does. I LOVED my all-girls public school. Apart from mercilessly hounding Miss Williams, with whom I fell in love at first sight at the age of twelve, I was a model pupil. In my early twenties I swapped my Latin homework for drug-taking and squatting. Having sported an 'I LOVE MISS WILLIAMS' tattoo on my left wrist for eleven years, I finally tired of the inane questions it encouraged and got a cover-up in 1999. I'm a list-writing geek and a drummer. I play table tennis and make my own beer. I am not a stalker anymore.

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    • 5/5
      First off I would like to say I read this authors first book and really enjoyed it so even though I am not lesbian or bulimic I was compelled to read the next segment of Natasha's diary for pure curiosity of how her life has progressed if nothing else. The writing is so honest and unfiltered which makes the reading so much more interesting. I look forward to following Natasha in the next book I believe is in France.I received this ebook from the author for my honest review which I have given here.
    • 4/5
      Well, this is a cute journal of a schoolgirl's coming of age tale. I especially like that an English author is making a splash in the American market, and the book certainly exhibits real feelings, growth, and insecurity that translates beyond any country of origin. Well done.
    • 3/5
      This book is the diary of a 19-yr-old struggling with her sexuality and body image.As stated in my blog review guidelines I normally don’t read non-fiction, but Natasha Holme, through a Twitter glitch, tied to be my 1700th follower and I offered to review her book as a prize. Because, you know, I’m broke and don’t really have anything else to offer.I had a hard time deciding on how to rate this book. On one side, the voyeur in me enjoyed reading her diary. On the other side, the teenager is obsessive about her body image and extremely confused about her sexuality and I had a hard time empathizing with her. It’s been a long time since I was a teenager, so I couldn’t wrap my head around her behavior most of the time. In addition, while I have body image issues to this day, I’ve never wanted to indulge in any behavior associated with anorexia or bulimia. I just can’t imagine starving myself and most definitely have never once thought of binging and purging.It was a hard read and at the same time an easy read. Easy because it was broken into small segments. Hard because of the subject matter. Yet it was compelling. I had to keep reading to see if Natasha reached the weight she had set as her goal. And I wanted to see if she figured out anything regarding her sexuality. The ending didn’t really give me any answers though. I’d like to know how she’s doing today.