Attain Sex And Bacon: Why I Love Things That Are Very, Very Bad For Me Fabricated By Sarah Katherine Lewis Audio Books

it! So funny, feminist, genuine, and awesome, I completely devoured this book, Friends, the Britney Spears essay made me tear up, The way she talks about food and women's bodies is a welcome reminder to stop punishing ourselves, and it actually TAKES, Also her recipes are amazing, and actually seem like I could follow them, There are a couple things near the end that I didn't love, but this was only me idolizing her and wanting ALL our opinions to be the same.
I'm sure once we are bffs we can come to an understanding that no, monogamy is not better than casual sex for everyone, just for her and porn CAN be awesome, even if it isn't usually.
The grossness of her clients when she was in the sex industry makes me reeeeally see why she'd feel that way, though, What else. I love that she repeatedly calls women with weight on them "sleek, " It makes so much more sense than fashion mags calling thin bonies "sleek, " And I love that almost every recipe uses bacon grease, Sigh. Absolute crush.
Rawness, dirty sex, a glimpse into the sex industry combined with the experience of a sarcastic dry perspective of the world will make the audience want to keep turning those pages.
I highly appreciated her sense of humor and how she made her words dance around to create an honest image of human interaction, I also loved the Seattle references, read her books, support local authors!
I wanted to love it, but I just didn't, It is fun to attempt to live vicariously through someone who works in such a taboo profession, and she did make me obsessed with fried chicken for about a week, but the writing was tedious.
While she went on and on about the joys of sex and trans fats, . . I mostly just craved an editor, too many of my reviews start off "oh my god did i want to love this book", and this is sadly yet another such review, there was one essay that grabbed me in a good way she breaks down why britney spears is getting the brunt of our food and sex hating culture thrown at her, and for that i will bump it tostars.
it's not unreadable, by any means, yet any feminist book about food and sex two of my absolute favorite things! should have me staying up all night until i finish it and that SO did not happen.
too much cliche and attempted titillation with no writing skill to back it up, For as much complaining I've done about this book, the last section was good enough to bump it up from a two star rating to a three star.
In the lastpages she cuts the shit, It's not overwritten or preachy like the first, It's not disgusting just for the sake of it, It's not shocking just to be shocking, It is real, and I started caring about her,

Do the lastpages make up for the firstNo, but I got it, She set out to write a funny book about sex and rib jobs and pee drinking and it wasn't working, She knew she had deadlines to make, So, she cut the shit and wrote something real, I wish the whole book could have been like that,

So book club Go to Borders, flip through the firstpages, but then sit down and read the last section, It won't take long. Then we will get to have a discussion at New Wave that won't give anyone overhearing us a huge boner, Funny, raunchy, heartwrenching, and full of delicious recipes to boot! You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll head for the kitchen, Underneath the awesomely colorful stories, Sarah Lewis has some very serious things to say about women, and the crappy things we choose to do to our bodies and our hearts.
This book is a bandaid for your spirit, People who know me might think I'm writing a positive review of this book because I know and like Lewis, but the fact of the matter is I'm giving this book five because there are large portions of itsentences, sometimes entire chaptersI want to highlight and then shove in the face of my loved ones and the universe in general and go, "Read this! Read it! This is what I have been trying to say to you all these years!" Ms.
Lewis' first book, Indecent: How I Make it and Fake It as a Girl for Hire was leaps and bounds better than this second book.
Both are steeped in shock value, which makes sense, because she did work in the sex industry, which is all about shock value,

But her first book let the seedy and tawdry bits pepper the wellwritten text, rather than jump out at you all at once: HERE I AM LOOK AT ME I'M SO EDGY AND DIRTY LA LA LA.
I mean, c'mon, really Really This is all shock, and no value, If she does have a third book in her, I hope that she dials it down some and actually tries to write, rather than letting crude language do all the heh dirty work.
This book was very well written, It was also strangely sad, It wasn't laudatory of the sex industry and Lewis' sexpositivity and bodypositivity were neither hedonistic nor naive, I'm a vegetarian and didn't love all of the food parts but they enriched the book, I have read that Lewis' had a more extensive and significant drug history that was not addressed in the book, It is not Lewis' job to bare all of her life to readers but it raised the issue of faithfulness of the narrative, I'm assuming everything she said was true but that's always an issue in memoir, In all honesty I wanted to read this to see how I felt about my own life choices and it provided some good perspective, Again, very wellwritten much better written than this rambling, fragmented review, I loved this book, it was honest, it was funny, it is the kind of book that gets inside your head and articulates things that you are thinking deep down but never actually formulated into conveyable words.
I loved the chapter about Britney and every part of the book that was encouraging of being a real woman with a real body with real curves.
I found it validating. I am a vegetarian, which is probably why I give itinstead of, cause to be honest, some food parts were just gross to me, But I would love to find the bacon quotient with veggie bacon, I can still relate!!! She almost, almost gets to things that I want someone to be writing about.
Guess I still have to write my own book, However, for an examination of appetites, this was far better and more joyous than Caroline Knapp's "Appetite", I really enjoyed this book, but it's not for the faint of heart, Even I had to skip the chapter dealing with people's affinity for bodily excrement, Besides that chapter, it's a good and hot read, Reading this book was like a little feminazi epiphany for me,

Sometimes you just need to be told that it's okay to enjoy sex, and it's okay to enjoy food,
Logically, we should know this already, but there are times when hearing it from an outside source just drives it home,

I really and truly think I am in love, and it's not often that the object of my affection is a mass of bound paper and ink.
I really liked this book, so much so that I didn't want to return it to the library, and now it's overdue, This is a great celebration of food, sex, and women who love food and sex, Also good essays on risky behavior, such as having unsafe sex,

I really enjoyed Lewis bluntness about sex shes a former sex worker, and good sense of humor, For instance, her first essay is about asseating, and why it doesn't turn her on, She describes it as “being on the receiving end of an intestinal Wet Willy,” and goes on to say that she was able to relax and enjoy it somewhat by pretending to be a tiny kitten being cleaned all over by a mommy cat although it didnt do anything for her sexually.


I also loved her celebration of womanly curves, in an essay lamenting her friends anorexia: “The thing is, woman are supposed to be womanshaped, Our thighs are supposed to touch, Were at our best when were healthy, strong, soft and libidinous, Were at our most fuckable when were wellfed and sleek, not when were dry as toast and out of our minds with hunger, ”

Oh, and there are a few good recipes in here, too,

I may pick this up to add to my collection, as I wound up quoting from it or referring to it several times since reading it.


I will warn you, though, not to read the essay about her exgirlfriend's career as a colonic irrigationist while you're eating,

Excellent book, some important principles and beliefs and recipes that reflect my own philosophy on life, A lot of underlying feminism as well, which I found only added to the content,

Great book, and a fun read, However, a caveat for those faint of heart, . it gets pretty raunchy. SK is out of the sex industry, but she's still got stories to tell about sex, food, desire, and appetite, Plus recipes that include how much red or white wine the chef should imbibe while cooking,

I gulped this down in one sitting, and I'll probably buy it, too SK needs the cash,

Quotes

Being hungry and miserable is never okay, Hunger makes women mean and dumb, . . If we're too hungry to think, we're too hungry to fuck shit up, And if we're too hungry to fuck shit up, we're collaborating with the enemy,

When it comes down to the choice between living a life of yes, please and living one of no, thanks I'll choose yes, thanks every time, and I'll generally raise you a can I have some more just to keep the stakes high.


When even a crack habit won't make you as thin as a Hollywood starlet or a fashion model, it's time to reevaluate the beauty standards that keep us literally starving ourselves to death.
I wanted to fucking love this book but sadly that was not the case, I must confess that I was disappointed by it overall, I wanted more sex and I felt like she had probably tapped that vein already in her previous book and was struggling to come up with more on the subject.
What she did have was mostly colored by her horrible experiences in the sex industry so it was kinda dark, What I did love: The food bits, the stuff about how she lost weight by eating all the foods she wanted also my theory on that btw , the "Southbound" piece on giving head and "Earl Gray Tea", the essay about Micki.
SIgh. Micki sounded like the sexiest being on the planet, But overall the book felt cobbled together or maybe not organic Lewis speaks about her struggle to write the book and her battle with depression, which may account for the forced feeling I got from some of the writing.
The stuff about her break up and her love for her man was a downer, I would read another book by her though, and think that she is a talented writer, Sex and Bacon was my final book read inas I wanted a horrendous year to end on a positive note, I couldnt have chosen better, SKL managed to make me laugh, bring me to tears, and turn

me on in less thanpages, I honestly cant think of another book thats succeeded at all three,

While others have cited her casual writing style as a detriment, its what I find most engaging, It reads like a conversation with a good friend whos stronger, braver, smarter, and sexier than you, The friend you aspire to be like only to have her turn around and make you realize youre just fine the way you are,

“What would happen if we all decided that we were going to eat how we wanted, fXck how we wanted, dress how we wanted, live how we wanted”

I can only hope that every single one of us finds out the answer to that question.
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