I shall be giving away one copy of Lesbian Crushes and Bulimia per month, in your preferred digital format. For a chance to win, please leave your reason(s) for wanting to read it in the Post a Comment section below. The book goes to my favourite answer. Enter as many times as you like.
Starting from April (2013), those who enter my comp but don’t win, will receive a Smashwords half price coupon to buy my book. Oh yeah :-)
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i’m always looking for books i can relate to, i have an ED and myself am queer, so i’m very interested in reading your book. :)
Having dealt with mental illness myself I’m always interested in reading books that deal with that kind of subject manner.
i have struggled with an eating disorder for as far back as i can remember. I’ve remained in a constant place of “who am i and what do i want” and i read so many books [especially having to do with mental illnesses] desperately hoping that i will find some answers. i became interested in this book because i grew up in a neighbourhood and in a family where it is really wrong to be gay. so i hid that giant part of me and tried to make it go away. so it sounds like i might build a relationship with this book and i want to make that happen.
I am interested in reading your book for review on my blog. I feel like I will relate to this book because I have struggled with an eating disorder as well.
I struggled with bulimia in college for nearly four years while living in the female dorms, and struggling to “fit in” in to that environment (unsuccessfully). Thankfully, a good (male) friend helped me get the ED under control, and I eventually realized most of the other girls were experiencing similar insecurities. I’ve been able to use what I learned during that time to help a few other young women over the years.
Thank you all for your replies. I am giving my book away to Cecilya this month. If you would like to, please enter again below for my February giveaway competition. The book will go to my favourite answer.
Natasha
Eating disorders are monsters. Girls can be too. And now, they’re both mixed together in a memoir with pink font on the cover. How could anyone NOT want to read this book? Bibliophiles and Natasha fans of the world, unite!
I work with queer teens and I know ED is a huge issue. While I myself do not have bulimia, I do have an ED and am queer, as well as an avid reader. It takes great strength to share your story to the world, and I think it deserves to be heard.
I deal with some kind of anthropophobia (have it under control at the moment) and sometimes I become agoraphobic. Bulimia is also among my “acquaintances” and it kept me from having a relationship with the girl I met and instantly fell in love with, because I was afraid of what she might have thought about me being diseased. I can say she was pretty much like Alex, the character in your book, and I would obviously play Natasha’s part, but I know how my story ended, I wish to find out how your book treated the problem.
There’s not enough books on queer women that I feel like I can identify with. While I don’t have an ED, I do have many of the signs and “warning signals” that some associate with an ED.
Thank you, people. Labrys is the winner of my eating disorder memoir this time. Please feel free to enter again.
Natasha
I am interested in this book for both personal and professional reasons. Personally I find that there isn’t enough story telling in the lesbian community. There are so many tools for our empowerment but the most important one is knowing we are not alone. As a professional who works with college age women, I look for places to have further insite into how to help them deal with eating disorders and negative body image, as well as being queer in the midwest.
I would love to read this book. The title in itself just explain me.
now this sounds like an interesting book! great title and subject. thx for posting, kay
author of The Last Cheater’s Waltz: Trusting Dog, Trusting Self by Kay Rutherford (kayrutherford.com or kayrutherfordbooks.com).
have a look.
peace to you.
I would love to read this because I am a lesbian and have had eating disorders so I feel like I could relate. I would love to review it because I feel like I would love reading it!
I know I just commented but I forgot to mention it would be a great LGBTQ book to add to my library for the LGBTQ safe house I am starting to help the LGBTQ youth!
Y’know, I think you should give the book to Katherine Wells, above, for March, because anybody creating an LGBTQ library is my hero.
That said, I can’t wait to read this book–my partner is queer, and I know far too many queer women with eating disorders.
By popular request Katherine Wells wins the copy of my diary book for March. Thank you to the others for entering. Starting from April, those who enter my comp but don’t win, will get a Smashwords half price coupon to buy my book. Oh yeah :-)
This book caught my eye. It sounds very interesting. I am a lesbian and have dealt with an eating disorder. It also would be great to read for the work I do. I want this book so so badly. It would be greatly appreciated.
I would love to read Lesbians Crushes and Bulimia, because I am queer, I am 18, I know lots of young queer people and young bulimic people, and having a book that explores both subjects would be a relief for all those people and would help me to help them. Besides that, and maybe more important, I am Brazilian and here in Brazil we have very few books about both subjects for our teenagers, so after reading it I could spread the word around and, perhaps, the book could even inspire Brazilians authors (including me!) to write more about what we need to read.
I’ve struggled with eating disorders all my life. I don’t know what my sexuality is – I would call myself Asexual right now – nothing happens, nothing felt. I do wonder, though, whether I would be gay were my body healthy enough to have sexual feelings. I often psychologically crush on women in my life, emotionally. They give me something men cannot.
Another reason I’d love to read your book, is that many of my friends are gay.
I am interested in reading your book because I have suffered with an eating disorder most of my life. I am also bisexual, which hard for me to come to terms with for awhile. Now I sometimes wonder if I’d be happier in a lesbian relationship. Anyway, I think your book would provide a great point of view and insight to both worlds, homosexual and eating disorders, and how they are interconnected.
So, Carolina’s won this time. Thanks, everyone. I’ve sent a half-price coupon code to purchase my book from Smashwords to Brittany, Fiona, Kerrilynn. Competition is now open for May :-)
I’d like to read the book as I have suffered from an eating disorder for many years and love to read new perspectives on it.