Say the name Nikki Grahame and most people will remember the bubby highly strung and ... more
hugely entertaining Big Brother 7 contestant famous for her diary room outbursts. Since leaving the Big Brother house she had forged a successful career for herself...
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Advantages: A book deeply concerned with how a convoluted childhood and past can affect the present Disadvantages: Long descriptions of landscape and history can become tedious at times
what historians tell us happened? In this way there is the illusion that the past can be changed, and by telling stories we feel as if we can change past mistakes, and prevent the past from catching up with us.
Although Thomas spends much of the book confronting his past, he is actually trying to avoid it. The intuitive Price discovers this, by saying ?explaining?s a way of avoiding the facts while you pretend to get near them? Through this we can see that although Thomas is telling the story of his past, he does not accept that it affects him and the person he is. He does this by viewing it very clinically. Yet it does affect him. Ian Brinton said ?We cannot escape from our history and we need it in order to give some patterning to our everyday lives?
Graham Swift is also concerned with the Circularity of the past. He shows that ...
Don't read BeingNikki without reading Airhead first. You will miss out on a lot. And please don't read the rest of this review without reading Airhead, because there are spoilers!
So after I finished reading Airhead by Meg Cabot, I was disappointed in the ending. I wanted to find out what happened and if Em will finally tell Christopher who she really is. I loved the first novel and there was so much more that needed explaining.
BeingNikki is a little more exciting than the first book, because now Em is carrying on with her new life and it's strange. It's strange to read her experience about living someone elses' life and I almost hate what she has to go through.
Meg Cabot uses a very simple, yet tactful way of writing and it doesn't take long to finish one of her books. I'm a fast reader myself, as I tend to read quite often, but ...
Advantages: Authentic voice gives character a true identity Disadvantages: However, it can become quite irritating
poetry, as the 'redeeming balm' against his fear of death and loss of identity. The novel focuses on the discussion about death and fame and explores whether or not Bill Unwin can really resist the temptation to seek fame. He has an infatuation with famous poets and the characters they create.
Similarly to another of Swift's novels, Out Of This World which explores a family relationship that spans three generations, Ever After spans two centuries and explores the relationship between Mathew Pearce and Bill himself. The story concentrates sometimes exclusively on the story of Bill and sometimes it gives priority to Matthews notebooks.
Swift has given Bill Unwin an authentic voice, which is at times, however, deeply irritating. Unwin is forever being fussy, hesitating and can hardly get through a sentence without stopping to examine ...
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Product details
EAN
9781844547432
Type
Non-Fiction
Genre
Medical
Title
Nikki Grahame: Dying to be Thin
Author
Nikki Grahame
Release Date
05-08-13
ISBN
1844547434
Manufacturer's product description
Say the name Nikki Grahame and most people will remember the bubby, highly strung and hugely entertaining Big Brother 7 contestant, famous for her diary room outbursts. Since leaving the Big Brother house, she had forged a successful career for herself in presenting and writing. Yet Nikki isn't just another reality television contestant and her life story is not like any other you will ever read. From the age of eight until she was nineteen, Nikki battled anorexia nervosa - but few cases have been quite as extreme as hers. What she has been through while suffering from this illness might surprise you - it will definitely shock you. At just seven years old, Nikki began feeling that she was overweight. A remark about her being fat from a fellow pupil at a gymnastics class along with insecurity brought about by her parents' separation and he beloved grandfather's death, were the catalysts for Nikki's long-term eating disorder. Aged just eight and weighing just under three stone, she was diagnosed as anorexic. For the next eight years, Nikki was in and out of institutions - seven in total - during which time she attempted suicide twice and had to be sedated up to four times a day so that she could be force-fed. At one point, she was sedated for fourteen days while doctors sewed a tube into her stomach, through which she was fed in order to get her weight out of the critical range. Nikki admits that she knew every anorexic's trick in the book: from breaking into hospital kitchens to water down full-fat milk, altering her diet sheet and switching name tags on food to ensure that she received smaller amounts, to even stuffing a door-stop down her trousers before a weigh-in. The extremes that she went to in order to avoid eating and find ways to exercise excessively shocked doctors who have worked in the field for years. As Nikki says, 'I've always wanted to be the best at everything I do, so I had to be the best anorexic - and I was.' This is the heart-rending and powerful story of a girl who lost her childhood but was brave enough to finally admit that she wanted to live again. With searing honesty, Nikki recounts her long and painful road to recovery, how she has had to come to terms with the long-term ramifications of her illness, how she coped with being in the Big Brother house and how she uses her new-found fame to promote awareness of eating disorders and to help those who are suffering from similar problems. This compelling book tells the story of an incredible journey. About the AuthorNikki Grahame was born in Watford in 1982. Her parents separated when she was a child and she cites both this and the death of her beloved grandfather as catalysts for the start of her severe eating disorder. Between eight and nineteen years old, Nikki was in and out of hospitals and institutions as she battled with anorexia nervosa. At one point, her weight was so dangerously low that she went into a coma; one of the doctors treating her said that hers was the worst case of anorexia he had seen in 32 years. Although she will never be 'cured' of the illness, Nikki made the decision that she wanted to live her life again and has not looked back since. Her time as a contestant in Big Brother 7 made her a household name and, since leaving the house, Nikki has established a career in the media. She has written columns for OK!, the Sun and More magazine and has been a presenter on Big Brother spin-off BBLB. Nikki devotes a lot of her spare time to increasing awareness of eating disorders and hopes that by sharing her life story, she will help others who fall victim.
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