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Martha M. Moravec
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in Bethlehem PA, The United States
June 11
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Magnificent Obesity: My Search for Wellness, Voice and Meaning in the Second Half of Life
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2014
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This week my book Magnificent Obesity: My Search for Wellness, Voice and Meaning in the Second Half of Life will be featured in Biographile, a newsletter from Random House that showcases their latest memoirs and biographies (Real People. Real Stories. Great Reading.)
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The lugubrious tone and clunky prose of this book made me lose interest early on. I put the book down and have not felt inclined to pick it back up.
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“Life is sad and there is nothing we can do about it. All we can is to be vigilant about what we should not do. The worst thing we can do is to not feel the sadness, to not weep, to not acknowledge the hurt that sits at the core of the human heart.”
― Magnificent Obesity: My Search for Wellness, Voice and Meaning in the Second Half of Life
― Magnificent Obesity: My Search for Wellness, Voice and Meaning in the Second Half of Life
“I think that for humans, the most regrettable of omissions, along with unshed tears and unexamined lives, is untold stories, the things not shared, the lost opportunity to be honest about oneself and tender toward others.”
― Magnificent Obesity: My Search for Wellness, Voice and Meaning in the Second Half of Life
― Magnificent Obesity: My Search for Wellness, Voice and Meaning in the Second Half of Life
“For me, the consolation of history resides in the fact that hypothetically returning to any point in time feels like coming home.”
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