Natasha Holme's Blog, page 2

Until Christmas, Lesbian Crushes and Bulimia: A Diary on How I Acquired my Eating Disorder is down from $2.99 to 99 cents (or UK equivalent) with code BH25G at Smashwords, for all e-reading devices.

My book is one of 243 LGBT ebook and print book prizes in the Rainbow Awards 2012 Treasure Hunt created by Elisa Rolle.



You can pick one book per day. (Warning: Facebook account required). For a shot at winning a book, complete a chain made of:

Book title > Word from book title > Definition of word > Book cover > Post number.

(For any book marked ‘New’ there is no cover or number, so just match Title > Word > Definition.)

Word: List of words.

Definition: To each word corresponds a definition. Elis...

My book is one of 243 LGBT ebook and print book prizes in the Rainbow Awards Treasure Hunt created by Elisa Rolle. You can pick one book per day. (Warning: Facebook account required). For a shot at winning a book, complete a chain made of:

Book title > Word from book title > Definition of word > Book cover > Post number.

(For any book marked ‘New’ there is no cover or number, so just match Title > Word > Definition.)

Word: List of words.

Definition: To each word corresponds a definition. Elisa is...

My book is one of 243 LGBT ebook and print book prizes in the Rainbow Awards Treasure Hunt created by Elisa Rolle. You can pick one book per day. (Warning: Facebook account required). For a shot at winning a book, complete a chain made of:

Book title > Word from book title > Definition of word > Book cover > Post number.

(For any book marked ‘New’ there is no cover or number, so just match Title > Word > Definition.)

Word: List of words.

Definition: To each word corresponds a definition. Elisa is...

Imagine you find someones diary… Are you the kind of person that would be unable to respect their privacy? Would you want to at least skim it for juicy details? Well I guess that’s me. I had just intended to check out the first chapter or two, but before I knew it, I found that I could not stop snooping in on the author’s life!

I also agree with another reviewer that pointed out how well this ‘diary’ was written. It contains fragments and snippets and is obviously very informal, but the author...

An utterly honest account of bulimia. Novels and biographies about eating disorders so often make the condition appear dramatic, exciting and glamourous. This diary does not. It tells of the repetative daily struggle, the depression, and the gruesome, unglamourous physical effects of the condition. I have never been confronted with such raw frankness when reading about this condition. This is a story that everyone needs to read, so that people understand that this condition is undignified, pa...

Excellent read! I love the way the author was able to bring me into her world by making me feel like I was sneaking into her diary while actually carrying me through her story. There is a true story line and a definitive end. This is a great book to recommend for anyone battling with an eating disorder or with their sexuality. I was able to relate to some of the author’s experiences which brought me further into the book. It’s not easy to bear your heart and soul but the author has done an am...

As the editor of the Anne Lister journals I was amazed when I found Natasha Holmes’ book. I learned that, like Anne Lister (1791-1840), Natasha has been an obsessive diarist from her early teenage years. But the startling fact is that, again like Anne Lister, Natasha wrote in a secret code of her own devising. This marked her out, to me, as a modern-day Anne Lister. Natasha’s account of her struggle to realise her lesbian sexuality and to deal with her eating disorder makes for an interesting...

What a fascinating insight into the life of a young girl at university, struggling with both her weight/eating and her sexuality. It really opened my eyes to a world that I really know nothing about, while I have felt unhappy about my weight sometimes and wish it was easier to lose those last few pounds I could never bring myself to use the extreme measures that Natasha relied on. It really helped to raise my awareness about eating disorders and how people who suffer from them might be feelin...

Unusually written, in a wispy, poetic second person at first, the author was pulling women and men without explaining her sexuality, not even on the back cover nor in the foreword, which was unexpected. Good for her.

I enjoyed the unusual writing style, which was mainly in the present tense, sometimes in the future tense, and somehow intimate and superficial, personal and impersonal, simultaneously. I wondered whether Nicole’s use of language was intentionally disorientating? And I was consci...