“ Emotional abuse is the process of breaking the spirit or shattering the confidence of another for one’s own purpose.” They might supply reasonable arguments as to why they and not you should make important decisions.” They might make a special point of coyly sharing information that they actually know will upset you. “ Love does not maintain a list of your flaws and weaknesses.” But if you change, Love is as excited about this change as you are, if not more so.” “ Love does not ask or even want you to change. “ Love never calls you fat or lazy or ugly.” How to Identify Love By Knowing What It’s Not: However big you think your life is, it’s nothing compared to what’s out there.” If you hate your life, it’s because your life is too small and doesn’t fit you. “ If you hate life, you haven’t seen enough of it. “ To allow yourself to be ‘yourself’ when you are with others, you don’t need to have years of therapy-polished love for yourself-merely tolerance.” “ You are exactly everything enough to the person who thinks you are.” But there’s still a mistrust of the Internet.” Anything that hurls your ass into the orbit of other living people can work. He’s giving the reader advice based on own painful trials and tribulations. This is How has chapters on how to commit suicide, how to be with a dying lover, how to be fat, how to be thin, how to succeed, how to find love, how to be confident and much more from someone who hasn’t researched the best way for you to do these things. Augusten would be my friend if we ever met. Although, for the record, I don’t really think Sedaris is that funny.

Gay is the only commonality between the two. I think a lot of people lump him in with David Sedaris because they’re both gay and a bit off-beat. Sure Running with Scissors really went deep and was so implausible that people couldn’t help but laugh at Augusten’s situation. Ī Wolf at the Table remains my favorite by Augusten. Why not? Everyone has one out there– Bethenny of Real Housewives fame, Taxi’s Marilu Henner. apparently he’s decided that his years as an alcoholic and his experiences with a lover dying of AIDs as well as being fat, rejected, insecure, suicidal, among other things makes him the perfect person to write a how-to book. Of course, that makes or breaks a good memoir. He is willing to share intimate moments and thoughts. I appreciate its honesty, bizarreness, rawness. The rare writer who transforms dark thoughts and memories into cleverly worded stories about love, loss and learning, Augusten Burroughs has never been someone I consider to be a humorous writer but a memoir writer with a sense of humor and a dry wit. “ Being an unhappy person does not mean you must be sad or dark.

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