<![CDATA[Love Junkie: A Memoir]]>

false <![CDATA[Love Junkie: A Memoir]]> 3176433 2 One woman’s dangerous addiction to love and sex threatens to ruin her life in this powerfully written memoir that will appeal to readers of Smashed and The Glass Castle. Rachel Resnick hits her forties single, broke, depressed, childless—a train wreck. After an ex-boyfriend breaks into her home and vandalizes it, Resnick takes the time to look back over her romantic and sexual history to ask the question: What is wrong with me? Thus begins her quest to uncover the roots of love and sex addiction—every bit as toxic and damaging to life as heroin. Love Junkie charts Rachel Resnick’s harrowing emotional journey from addiction to intimacy, from despair to hope. By peeling back one painful layer after another, what she discovers is a glaring pattern: she is addicted to the fantasy of romantic bliss, marriage, and children. Yet all her relationships proved impossible. At the root of her issues: a Dickensian childhood experience. Finally she confronts her alcoholic mentally ill mother’s suicide. In this groundbreaking, compulsively readable memoir, Resnick flays her own psyche in search of the truth, cracking open one of the more elusive and pervasive addictions of our time. 3208954 11 11 2008 Love Junkie: A Memoir total:70|5:17|4:19|3:19|2:10|1:5| 70 243 204 27 5 1 false false Mon Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 13 11:12:45 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 15:41:48 -0800 2008
What a book! It's as if she reached inside herself, tore her heart out, and squeezed its contents all over the pages. This is a brutally honest recount of h...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 14:07:24 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 14:20:42 -0700 2009
Is it terrible? Well yes. . .it is!

I thought I would never tire of memoirs by addicts of various self-destructive bents - but I think Love Junkies brought this camel down. This book made me fe...more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Jul 28 08:20:12 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 08:57:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jun 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 13:48:30 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 13:53:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Nov 21 08:00:01 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 08 07:02:09 -0800 2009 hard drive �...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 24 11:39:51 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 07 09:28:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jan 02 10:23:28 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 10:26:52 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 10:36:18 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 10:38:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 11 03:37:44 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 09:17:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 05:47:32 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 05:46:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 06:26:14 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 06:31:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 17:37:36 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 11:09:36 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sun Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 13:01:33 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 18:36:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 08:19:32 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 08:20:42 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Thu Apr 02 20:28:18 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 20:28:18 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Mon Mar 16 14:34:12 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 14:34:46 -0700 2009 ]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 23 19:40:29 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 19:44:46 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Apr 24 15:16:06 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 15:16:40 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Dec 04 07:17:12 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 07:18:03 -0800 2008 rachel resnick is fearless
what a ride!
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