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What did you love best about An Apple a Day?

How honest the author is. I enjoyed her voice as well, though it does have a "sticky" quality that grates after a while.

What other book might you compare An Apple a Day to and why?

Biting Anorexia - they are both candid diary type stories about the struggle back to health.

Which scene was your favorite?

When she was describing her own fascination with Posh spice. Who wouldn't identify with her thoughts on the glamorous supermom persona Posh has adopted. Also, how she describes her and Tom's trip across the western states of the US. To see America from the point of view of an an eating disordered English woman was interesting.

Any additional comments?

It is obvious from the author's point of view that she was still firmly in the grips of anorexia while writing this. Some of her interpretations of situations or other people's advise show a deep need to hang on to her disease. I came to really root for her though, and will surely listen to it again.

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Loved this

I am an eating disorder therapist who has heard and read multiple accounts of people suffering with eating disorders. This is certainly my favorite and will be my go to when helping parents understand their child's eating disorder, and helping the anorexic verbalized their struggle. Loved this book.

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Can relate in many ways and yet lucky I couldn't

Would you consider the audio edition of An Apple a Day to be better than the print version?

I didn't read the print, but did find it refreshing to have it read by the actual author.

What was one of the most memorable moments of An Apple a Day?

Having the points in the story where I knew just what certain feelings felt like or just how the brain works when having a ED.

Have you listened to any of Emma Woolf’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

No

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The Idea of not being able to just have a baby because of an illness that needs to be fixed was moving. Luckily for myself I never had issues with getting pregnant, or not able to because of my on and off ED issues.

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A memoir of a silver spoon, maybe.

The book is blah. The author is a columnist for some UK newspaper. She is related to Virginia Woolf, which she continually alludes to, and I think is trying to make you believe that writing talent is hereditary. Newsflash: it isn't.

The book focuses primarily on Emma's desire to have a baby. In order to do so, she must gain enough weight, but she just whines about having to eat, and her infinitely patient boyfriend who takes her to fancy hotels every weekend. I did not feel much of anything, and when I realized I had gotten practically to the end without any character arc or development, just more whining, I quit.

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Inspiring and artistic

This book is inspiring and artistically written and performed. Beautiful imagery, not triggering, and great to really munch on and meditate on.

excellent and so precise

great book .. no angst or drama .. just a real account of living and functioning with this eating disorder. so honest and addressed a lot questions i am too embarrassed to ask. thank you

decent but not incredible

interesting insight into mind of an anorexic. a bit depressing and overlap in ideas. fair

Hungry for more.

Candid and illuminating. Sincere and well read. I would love to read more and to know how Woolf is doing. Very intimate and revealing.

An honest story.

Just a story of one women's struggles and her true thoughts regarding her experience with anorexia.

boring and all the same over amd over<br /> who publish

What the heck ????? awfulness writing and same thing going to what was said in every chapter.