Journal Entry 1 by midwinter from Tucson, Arizona USA on Thursday, March 02, 2006

From Publishers Weekly
Facing imminent marriage, Burana, a journalist who has written for the New York Times Book Review, the Village Voice and Spin, decides to make a yearlong "bachelorette odyssey" to revisit her former career as a stripper. She's exorcising some commitment panic, but also trying to reclaim some dignity for this devalued work. The sex trades may be the world's oldest professions, but where's their history, the "floozerati"? Burana wants to know. A self-proclaimed "sex-positive" feminist, she sees stripping as a choice, not just something women do because there's no other way to earn a buck. True, she herself first went to Peepland to make her rent money, but it also provided a "reprieve from rabid self-actualization" (e.g., studying and trying to get decent jobs). In her return to the "tiprail," she rediscovers the out-of-body high that sometimes graces strippers. But what does her fiance‚ make of all this? And will she be seduced back to this gloriously exhibitionist career? Thankfully, there's a "catcher in the rye": Burana's enormous talents as a writer she has a good ear, a fine wit and an instinct for storytelling reveal another option, one that's perhaps not so different from her former m‚tier. Stripping means "reclaiming [her] sexuality in the public arena" which is exactly what this book does, too. Burana exposes herself with pride, style and a great sense of humor.

*****

As some other reviewers have noted, this book had a tendency to drag, but was overall quite enjoyable. Passing on to fulfill a reverse wishlist relay :) 

Journal Entry 2 by midwinter at FRIEND/FAMILY/ETC in US Postal Service, A friend -- Controlled Releases on Monday, February 25, 2008

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Journal Entry 3 by tranq1 from Tampa, Florida USA on Wednesday, April 30, 2008

I arrived home today from our 4 month sailing trip and this was waiting for me. Thank you. 

Journal Entry 4 by tranq1 at Bookbox, Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, April 07, 2010

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Putting in thegoaliegirl's Travel Narrative Bookbox. 

Journal Entry 5 by oi-reader at Toledo, Ohio USA on Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Intrigued by the subtitle, this begged to be removed from thegoaliegirls travel narrative book box. Appears like it will be a fun summertime read.