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Frank Bruni has been an op-ed columnist for the New York Times since 2011. He previously worked as the newspaper's Rome bureau chief, Sunday magazine staff writer, one of its White House correspondents, and its chief restaurant critic. He has written several books including Born Round, Ambling into mehr anzeigen History, and Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen

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Some people have insight into what “breaks open the heart,” and some people do not. This book is for the people who are interested in understanding the difficulties that having a disability presents. It’s just not about not being able to see, not being able to stand. It’s deeper than that. This autobiography highlights the human capacity to go beyond personal limits.
Rather than falling into victimhood, Mr. Bruni has explored his new limitations and broken through them. I like that he highlights the stories of others, using his interview skills to pull out the deep stuff, beyond where most people relate to their friends/families.… (mehr)
 
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alanac50 | 3 weitere Rezensionen | Feb 27, 2024 |
I enjoyed this book both the memoir of his early years explaining his relationship with food and family and his tenure as the restaurant critic at the NYT.
 
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ellink | 25 weitere Rezensionen | Jan 22, 2024 |
I almost put this down about ten pages in, but by page 25 or so I was hooked. Good story that travels beyond the author's personal experience and brush with blindness to look carefully at others that overcame their varied and particular setbacks, managing to reset their expectations and thrive. That is an oversimplification because he touches on many things in his life, but that was the message that I came away with. I could especially relate to Regan, the border collie mix that isn't a border collie - I have that dog's twin here at home, and he has kept me going through my own trials.… (mehr)
 
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Cantsaywhy | 3 weitere Rezensionen | Sep 23, 2023 |
It is deeply uncomfortable to bear witness to someone else's untreated mental health disorder. The good(?) news is that Bruni acknowledges that he was bulimic during the period of his life that included bingeing and purging. The bad news is that Bruni does not acknowledge that he is equally unhealthy during the periods in which he matches binges with periods of extreme restriction, amphetamines and excessive exercise. His overvalued ideas about weight are similarly unquestioned, so there are literally hundreds of pages about how he can't date/be photographed/meet his friends, etc. because he's too fat. From the time he starts telling us he's fat (infancy, page 6) until about page 180, it's not even true -- he's at most 5-10 pounds overweight on a 5'10" frame. It's clear by the time he actually gets fat that it's a self-inflicted condition from thirty years of yoyo dieting.

Things get better over two-thirds of the way through the book, when he actually becomes the NY times food editor (although the much ballyhooed association between that position and his weight loss is actually off by a couple of years) because his inside view on the food industry is fascinating. But that wasn't enough to save either the book, or really Bruni himself, who notes that he still binge eats occasionally (and here binge eating means literally that, not just an overindulgence), and in his mid-forties seems to have never had a serious romantic relationship or a strong commitment to anything beyond food and weight loss.

More books I only completed because I was stuck on an airplane -- and for this one, I was out of all other books and my laptop was out of power, so really, what else can one do?
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