Love Junkie (Paperback)

from Sararush

Desperate and at times disturbing—Love Junkie is a memoir that is almost too honest. Resnick, a forty year old writer, is our junkie. The book recounts her relationships from childhood to middle age as evidence of her love addiction. An addiction she claims is as gripping as heroin. Resnick opens...

from absurdeist

There's a shocking and, if you'll pardon my perverse delight, downright revolting (yet, somehow, hysterical) scene of self-degradation in Gravity's Rainbow that almost made me gag the first time I read it (the only time I will ever read it, it was so gross, thank you very much, Mr. Pynchon!), tha...

from airdna

Almost every woman who has spent time searching for Mr. Right has, at one point or another, fallen hard for Mr. Wrong. We've all had at least one relationship where we temporarily lost sight of ourselves and became regrettably jealous, insecure, or needy. Rachel Resnick, however, took it to a who...

from australwind

Intimate and powerful exploration of an addiction that leaves you thinking about how your own upbringing has coloured the way you form intimate adult relationships. Ms Resnick appears to have been frank, honest and open about her addiction to "love". Let's hope the process of writing this book ha...

from WWDG

got this book not knowing what to expect, thought it would be full of phsycobable, but i found it very moving and raw in the way in which she is so honest about herself and her desire to be loved.How could anyone not be damaged by that upbringing.I hope that the writing of the book was cathartic ...