Sally Obermeder
Autor de Super Green Smoothies: Healthy Recipes for Healing and Happiness
Sobre El Autor
Sally Obermeder was born on August 17, 1973 in Paddington, South Wales. She earned a Bachelor of Commerce and worked in finance and investment banking. She made a career change to try working in television. She was the Channel 7 network's National Entertainment and Lifestyle Reporter for the show mostrar más Today Tonight. She went on to co-host of The Daily Edition on Channel 7 along with Monique Wright and Tom Williams. She also appears on Sunrise and The Morning Show, both on the Seven Network. Swish.com is her fashion and lifestyle blog. She is a writer. Her first book was a memoir about her career and her struggle with breast cancer, Never Stop Believing. Her health and recipe books include Super Green Smoothies, and The Good Life. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 6
- Miembros
- 35
- Popularidad
- #405,584
- Valoración
- 3.0
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 15
The reason that I bought this book was because someone very close to me has recently been diagnosed with breast cancer and I was wondering if this would be a good book to give them. I was shocked to read about the realities of chemo and how brutal it is. It was something I obviously knew but I had never been exposed to the details before. Sally doesn't hold back from describing how traumatic her experience has been and how hideous and frightening the battle with cancer is. But throughout her warmth and humour and courage also shines through, so it becomes quite an inspiring book.
The reason that I've given it only three stars is because I felt strongly that it was in need of a good edit. It felt like a large part of the reason why she'd written the book was to say thank you to her friends and family for their support. This is lovely, but I don't need pages about how wonderful someone is when I have never heard of them. There was also lots of detail that added nothing and could have been cut out - stories about how she bought not one but two baby buggies, clothes she wore on various occasions etc. I didn't really know who she was when I started reading the book so perhaps true fans might revel in these details, but I felt that the book could easily have been 50 pages shorter and it would have been the better for it. Nevertheless, a genuinely inspiring story.… (más)