The Unbearable Lightness of Being

and grow to like her.” She also touches on the fact that most people don’t plan on anorexia or bulimia being a permanent thing. It starts as a diet and then spirals out of control, and before you know it, the person is addicted to losing weight. “I didn’t decide to become anorexic, it snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet.” This quote from Portia de Rossi’s autobiography, Unbearable Lightness, is a key real life example of the way anorexia can get out of control quickly without…

period in which the novel was published; the movie adaption did a mediocre job of portraying each of these. Throughout the book, Meg encountered many challenges that got in her way. The lessons she learned became the themes of the entire book. One being, she was forced to get out of her…

The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is taken from Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet which begins "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life". The biographer Richard Cordell notes that the book was influenced by Maugham's study of science and his work as a houseman at St Thomas' Hospital. The novel was first published in serialised form in five issues of Cosmopolitan (November 1924 – March 1925). Beginning in May 1925, it was serialised…