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Crave
Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing | Christine O'Brien
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Christine O'Brien remebers growing up in NYC's famous Dakota apartment with her powerful father, her beautiful mother, and a food obsessesion that consumed her. Hunger comes in many forms. A person can crave a steak in the same way that she can crave a perfect family life. In her memoir, Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing, Christine OBrien tells the story of her own cravings. Its a story of growing up in a family with a successful, but explosive father, a beautiful, but damaged, mother and three brothers in New York Citys famed Dakota apartment building. Christines father was Ed Scherick, the ABC television executive and film producer who created ABCs Wide World of Sports as well as classic films like The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and The Heartbreak Kid. Her mother, Carol, was raised on a farm in Missouri. With chestnut hair and the all-American good looks that won her the title of Miss Missouri and a finalist place in The Miss America Contest she looked to be the perfect wife and mother. But, Carol had a craving that was almost impossible to fill. Seriously injured in a farming accident when she was a girl, she craved health even though doctors told her that she was perfectly fine. Setting out on a journey through the quacks of the EastCoast, she began seeing a doctor who prescribed The Program as a way to health for her and her family. At first she ate nothing but raw liver and drank shakes made with fresh yeast. Then it was blended salads, the forerunner of the smoothie. And that was all she let her family eat. This well-meant tyranny of the dinner table led Christine to her own cravings for family, for food and for the words to tell the story of her hunger. Crave is that storythe chronicle of a writers painful and ultimately satisfying awakening.
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Cinfhen
Cinfhen
Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing | Christine S O'Brien
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#MOvember 🎶It‘s your love that I still #Crave 🎶This memoir sounds like it‘s right in my wheelhouse. And it would also work for #Booked2020 #ParentChildMemoir I‘m eagerly awaiting the #NFChallenge hosted by @Riveted_Reader_Melissa

vivastory I must admit, I'm pretty tempted to join in with #Booked2020 5y
Tanisha_A A memoir on food and longing, sounds good! 5y
Kalalalatja I‘m so glad you are giving tips for #Booked2020, I need the inspiration 😂 5y
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Cinfhen JOIN!!!!! @vivastory there is NO downside and you‘ll love it!!! I promise xx 5y
Cinfhen Isn‘t planning part of the fun @Kalalalatja and this memoir sounds like all the points I love reading about @Tanisha_A 5y
Kalalalatja It is! I‘m waiting to see which books I get for my birthday this year, before I start really planning, but I love getting inspiration in advance 😄 5y
britt_brooke I bought this on ebook deal recently. Sounds good! 5y
Cinfhen I‘m hoping another #kindleDailyDeal surfaces soon on this book @britt_brooke 5y
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Booksnchill
Booksnchill
Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing | Christine O'Brien
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#Gettbr @Liberty is my fabulous concierge and she wowwed me with this 3 nonfiction book selection of books I cannot wait to read! Great service and it supports Print Independent Bookstore! Off I go to explore!

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LauraBeth
LauraBeth
Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing | Christine O'Brien
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I‘m nervous to read another memoir so close to that Small Fry disaster...😬 but this cover does have two cats, a dog and a bird on it (which is also the exact same pet makeup as my current situation), so I‘ll give it to page 50 based on that.

RaimeyGallant Fair. 6y
Dragon 😻 6y
kgriffith This is one of those books that I‘m very glad exists, and also probably won‘t read because the takeaway is something I don‘t need to get from a memoir. I think there‘s something to be said for non-fiction that we can reflect on and decide that about, because we‘ve already done the work the author comes to on their journey. 6y
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LauraBeth Wow @kgriffith - that is a brilliant assessment - I LOVE that! You‘re exactly right! There is no takeaway here for me that I need either. I did grow up with a mom who had food issues and it definitely screwed with my head - but I worked on those feelings (did the work) a long time ago. 💕 And to your point - there are others who went through something similar who haven‘t yet begun to work through it, so I‘m glad this exists for them. (edited) 6y
kgriffith @LauraBeth 💜💜💜 6y
Mimi28 Yikes, I‘ll pass on it for the same reasons you and @kgriffith said. I‘m am empath, I‘ve read 47 books this year which is the best since encyclopedia Brown and Choose Your Own Adventure books were popular- ( boy that ages me, lol) they were mostly graphic novels and short stories and poems books, but darnit I‘ll still say I‘m back in business. Actually, come to think of it, when I stopped reading all that stuff was when the food issues started 🤔 6y
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Amor4Libros
Amor4Libros
Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing | Christine S O'Brien
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One of the perks of low season at work: Lots of reading time!

Trashcanman What a creative handle, do you speak Spanish? 6y
Amor4Libros @Trashcanman Yes, Spanish is my first language 🙂 6y
Trashcanman @Amor4Libros Encantado de conocerte. espero que tengas un buen fin de semana. Yo soy de México, Delicias, Chihuahua 6y
Amor4Libros @Trashcanman Mucho gusto también. Yo vivo en Santo Domingo, República Dominicana. Te deseo un fin de semana súper! 6y
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Well-ReadNeck
Well-ReadNeck
Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing | Christine O'Brien
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Mehso-so

I‘m a big fan of memoirs, but I didn‘t really ever get into this one. The elements of O‘Brien‘s life are interesting: Rich, high powered angry Dad; farm raised mom with food obsessions; childhood anxiety; and lots of famous neighbors. But, ultimately it read “rich girl problems” even though her experience was very unique. #netgalley

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BlameJennyJane
BlameJennyJane
Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing | Christine O'Brien
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Mehso-so

This was an #ARC courtesy of #netgalley. I love memoirs, especially those about people whose lives are fascinating. There are elements of that in Crave. The author grew up with wealth and privilege but it wasn‘t always easy with an angry father and a mother with her own complexities. All and all there just wasn‘t anything truly unique about this read for me. Poor little rich girl develops issues. I appreciate the author‘s often poetic prose.

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AndLamb83
AndLamb83
Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing | Christine O'Brien
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This was a #NetGalley ARC. Crave is based on the life of Christine O'Brien as she grows up with a famous, angry father and a mother who strives for control by forcing an extreme diet on her family. It has lasting effects, positive and negative, on the author and her three siblings. I found the authors life to be very exotic and interesting, so much different than the way most people live. This is a good read for memoir fans.

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