{"id":968,"date":"2009-01-09T17:11:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T17:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/09\/moose\/"},"modified":"2010-09-24T16:21:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T16:21:41","slug":"moose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/09\/moose\/","title":{"rendered":"moose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the Glandular Fever I&#8217;m convinced I&#8217;ve got&#8230;I&#8217;ve managed to spend a lot of time reading this week.  Last night I finished up the following: &#8220;MOOSE&#8221;, by Stephanie Klein.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a four year fan of Klein and Greek Tragedy.  I read her first memoir &#8220;Straight Up and Dirty&#8221; the day I brought it home.  I started her second at the gym (gym + mono = not the cleverest-est thing) on Monday and finished it tonight.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Moose&#8221; is the story of Klein&#8217;s childhood struggle with obesity and her frequent trips to Fat Camp.  You wont get a lecture and there&#8217;s no  <em>get to know yourself<\/em>&#8230;<em>love yourself<\/em> message poignantly embedded. It&#8217;s just the author saying <em>this happened to me and here&#8217;s what it was like.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><img src='http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/moose-stephanie-klein.jpg' alt='Moose Stephanie Klein' \/><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Klein is an engaging writer with a voice perfectly suited for memoirs.  She&#8217;s so honest, my eyes sweat.  And she somehow manages to make all the to-ing and fro-ing between childhood memories and present day experiences seem seamless.  <\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t connect with it in quite the same way as &#8220;Straight Up and Dirty&#8221;. This could be down to the lethargy I&#8217;m lugging around.  But it&#8217;s probably more to do with this: Best intentions aside, I&#8217;m not a huge fan of thirtysomething memoirs. <\/p>\n<p>That said, I do think &#8220;Moose&#8221; is a bit of a throwback to those fabulous 80&#8217;s movies.  You know, something a member of the BratPack would star in.  (Preferably Molly..)  And it&#8217;s one of the reasons I&#8217;m so looking forward to following her foray into Television.  <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the Glandular Fever I&#8217;m convinced I&#8217;ve got&#8230;I&#8217;ve managed to spend a lot of time reading this week. Last night I finished up the following: &#8220;MOOSE&#8221;, by Stephanie Klein. I&#8217;m a four year fan of Klein and Greek Tragedy. I read her first memoir &#8220;Straight Up and Dirty&#8221; the day I brought it home.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28],"tags":[90,33],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum","category-book-reviews","tag-stephanie-klein","tag-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3116,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/3116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}