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FROM: "ROBIN BEERBOWER" <[removed]@mail.open.org>
REC'D: 1/8/02, 12:46 PM

Hi All,

Looking for novels dealing with dieting or someone who is losing or has lost weight. I checked the Fiction_L archives and booklists and so far I have:

Cannell - THIN WOMAN
Weiner - GOOD IN BED
McCorkle - CRASH DIET
Massman - JUST DESSERTS

And one of the Diane Mott Davidson's mysteries dealt with low-fat dieting and recipes but can't remember which one. I'd appreciate a memory jog.

Thanks!
Robin Beerbower
Salem (OR) Public Library
[removed]@open.org

FROM: "Sarah Stein" <[removed]@denver.lib.co.us>
REC'D: 1/8/02, 12:57 PM

How about Denise Dietz, Beat up a cookie and Throw darts at a
cheesecake? Mysteries --heroine runs a weight loss group in Colorado
Springs.

Sarah

Sarah Stein
Senior Special Collections Librarian
Denver Public Library
Denver, Colorado, USA
[removed]@denver.lib.co.us

>>> [removed]@mail.open.org 01/08/02 11:41AM >>>
Hi All,

Looking for novels dealing with dieting or someone who is losing or has
lost weight. I checked the Fiction_L archives and booklists and so far
I have:

Cannell - THIN WOMAN
Weiner - GOOD IN BED
McCorkle - CRASH DIET
Massman - JUST DESSERTS

And one of the Diane Mott Davidson's mysteries dealt with low-fat
dieting and recipes but can't remember which one. I'd appreciate a
memory jog.

Thanks!
Robin Beerbower
Salem (OR) Public Library
[removed]@open.org

FROM: "Lisa Colcord" <[removed]@ci.glendale.az.us>
REC'D: 1/8/02, 1:08 PM

It's been a while since I read it, but I believe Dear Emily by Fern Michaels will fit.

Lisa


Lisa Colcord
Librarian
Glendale Public library
Glendale, AZ

....my views are my own....

-The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time- James Taylor

>>> [removed]@mail.open.org 01/08/02 11:41AM >>>
Hi All,

Looking for novels dealing with dieting or someone who is losing or has lost weight. I checked the Fiction_L archives and booklists and so far I have:

Cannell - THIN WOMAN
Weiner - GOOD IN BED
McCorkle - CRASH DIET
Massman - JUST DESSERTS

And one of the Diane Mott Davidson's mysteries dealt with low-fat dieting and recipes but can't remember which one. I'd appreciate a memory jog.

Thanks!
Robin Beerbower
Salem (OR) Public Library
[removed]@open.org

FROM: "Dusty Gres" <[removed]@mail.toombs.public.lib.ga.us>
REC'D: 1/8/02, 1:08 PM

Joan Hess: A Diet to Die For
Virginia Rich: The Nantucket Diet Murders

*****
Dusty Gres, Director
Ohoopee Regional Library System
Hdqrts: Vidalia-Toombs County Library
610 Jackson Street
Vidalia, GA 30474
PH: (912)537-9283
FAX: (912) 537-3735
Email: [removed]@mail.toombs.public.lib.ga.us
Web: http://www.toombs.public.lib.ga.us

-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of ROBIN BEERBOWER
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 1:42 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Diet Fiction


Hi All,

Looking for novels dealing with dieting or someone who is losing or has lost
weight. I checked the Fiction_L archives and booklists and so far I have:

Cannell - THIN WOMAN
Weiner - GOOD IN BED
McCorkle - CRASH DIET
Massman - JUST DESSERTS

And one of the Diane Mott Davidson's mysteries dealt with low-fat dieting
and recipes but can't remember which one. I'd appreciate a memory jog.

Thanks!
Robin Beerbower
Salem (OR) Public Library
[removed]@open.org

FROM: Spencer Ms Martha <[removed]@usmc-mccs.org>
REC'D: 1/8/02, 1:19 PM

Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

Martha Spencer

-----Original Message-----
From: ROBIN BEERBOWER [[removed]@mail.open.org]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 10:42 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Diet Fiction


Hi All,

Looking for novels dealing with dieting or someone who is losing or has lost
weight. I checked the Fiction_L archives and booklists and so far I have:

Cannell - THIN WOMAN
Weiner - GOOD IN BED
McCorkle - CRASH DIET
Massman - JUST DESSERTS

And one of the Diane Mott Davidson's mysteries dealt with low-fat dieting
and recipes but can't remember which one. I'd appreciate a memory jog.

Thanks!
Robin Beerbower
Salem (OR) Public Library
[removed]@open.org

FROM: "Deborah Walsh" <[removed]@geneva.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 1/8/02, 1:19 PM

>>Looking for novels dealing with dieting or someone who is losing or
>has lost weight.

Susan Sussman's 1989 book The dieter is one of my favorites. I've
reread it relatively recently (unintentional alliteration, there) and
I think it still holds up, although it is a little old. The cover is
catchy, though, if you're doing a display.

Deborah T. Walsh
Geneva Public Library District
Geneva, IL 60134
[removed]@geneva.lib.il.us

FROM: snoep <[removed]@triad.rr.com>
REC'D: 1/8/02, 1:30 PM

Jemima J. by Jane Green publ 2000 is a goodie.

tee

ROBIN BEERBOWER wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Looking for novels dealing with dieting or someone who is losing or has lost weight. I checked the Fiction_L archives and booklists and so far I have:
>

"Something startled you before," he said.
She shot him the briefest glance and shrugged.
"What was it?"
She shrugged again. "You smiled. It changed your face." p213
A quote from my current read:
"The Vineyard" by Barbara Delinsky, publ 2000

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 1/8/02, 1:30 PM

At 10:41 AM 1/8/02 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Looking for novels dealing with dieting or someone who is losing or has
lost weight. I checked the Fiction_L archives and booklists and so far I
have:
>
>Cannell - THIN WOMAN
>Weiner - GOOD IN BED
>McCorkle - CRASH DIET
>Massman - JUST DESSERTS
>
>And one of the Diane Mott Davidson's mysteries dealt with low-fat dieting
and recipes but can't remember which one. I'd appreciate a memory jog.
>
>Thanks!
>Robin Beerbower

Well, Bridget Jones is always dieting, and always losing a pound and
then putting it back on (v.b.).

Our catalog shows a 1999 title by Van Whitfield, SOMETHING'S WRONG
WITH YOUR SCALE, from Doubleday; one subject heading for it is
"Weight loss--Humor--Fiction."

One of Simon Brett's mystery novels: MRS. PARGETTER'S POUND OF
FLESH (1992 in UK; 1993 in US) has Mrs. P. solving a murder at
a fat farm where she was briefly a patient.

You specified novels, but I'll also the note the existence of this
sf anthology which has several stories that qualify (and which has
to be one of the, er, more specialized theme anthologies I've seen):

The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg
& George R. R. Martin (Crown
0-517-54978-6, May ’83, $12.95, 249pp, hc)
• Fat! • Isaac Asimov • in
• Sylvester’s Revenge • Vance Aandahl • ss F&SF May ’75
• Fat Farm • Orson Scott Card • ss Omni Jan ’80
• The Stretch • Sam Merwin, Jr. • ss Science Fiction Stories Nov ’56
• Camels and Dromedaries, Clem • R. A. Lafferty • ss F&SF Oct ’67
• The Champ • T. Coraghessan Boyle • ss Atlantic Monthly Jan ’78
• The Truth About Pyecraft • H. G. Wells • ss The Strand Apr ’03
• The Iron Chancellor • Robert Silverberg • nv Galaxy May ’58
• The Man Who Ate the World • Frederik Pohl • nv Galaxy Nov ’56
• Gladys’s Gregory • John Anthony West • ss F&SF Feb ’63
• Abercrombie Station [*Jean Parlier] • Jack Vance • na Thrilling
Wonder Stories Feb ’52
• Shipping Clerk • William Morrison • ss Galaxy Jun ’52
• The Malted Milk Monster • William Tenn • nv Galaxy Aug ’59
• The Food Farm • Kit Reed • ss Orbit 2, ed. Damon Knight, Berkley
Medallion, 1967
• The Artist of Hunger • Scott Russell Sanders • ss IASFM Jul ’83
• Quitters, Inc. • Stephen King • ss Night Shift, Garden City, NY:
Doubleday, 1978

Also a few from Daniel Pinkwater: THE AFTERLIFE DIET (Random House,
1995) and two recent juveniles: FAT CAMP COMMANDOS and FAT CAMP
COMMANDOS GO WEST (Scholastic; 2001 and 2002 respectively). Here's
the blurb on FAT CAMP COMMANDOS:

Ralph and Sylvia Nebula and their friend Mavis Goldfarb are
bitter at being sent to a bogus weight-loss camp, so they
decide to escape and find a way to take revenge on those
responsible for promoting the idea that thin is better.

Personally, I'm with Ralph and Sylvia and Mavis on this one.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: Sarah Flowers <[removed]@scinet.co.santa-clara.ca.us>
REC'D: 1/8/02, 1:41 PM

Jemima J. by Jane Green.
Of course, Bridget Jones is always on a diet.


Sarah Flowers, Community Librarian
Morgan Hill Library, a Santa Clara County Library
17575 Peak Avenue/Morgan Hill, CA 95037
[removed]@scinet.co.santa-clara.ca.us

-----Original Message-----
From: ROBIN BEERBOWER [[removed]@mail.open.org]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 10:42 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Diet Fiction

Hi All,

Looking for novels dealing with dieting or someone who is losing or has
lost weight. I checked the Fiction_L archives and booklists and so far
I have:

Cannell - THIN WOMAN
Weiner - GOOD IN BED
McCorkle - CRASH DIET
Massman - JUST DESSERTS

And one of the Diane Mott Davidson's mysteries dealt with low-fat
dieting and recipes but can't remember which one. I'd appreciate a
memory jog.

Thanks!
Robin Beerbower
Salem (OR) Public Library
[removed]@open.org

FROM: "rsfenn" <[removed]@illinoisalumni.org>
REC'D: 1/8/02, 1:52 PM

One from years ago that I enjoyed was Wishes by Jude Deveraux.

Becky Fenn
Bemis Public Library
Littleton, CO

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From: snoep <[removed]@triad.rr.com>
Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 13:59:05 -0500

>Jemima J. by Jane Green publ 2000 is a goodie.
>
>tee
>
>ROBIN BEERBOWER wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Looking for novels dealing with dieting or someone who is losing or has lost weight. I checked the Fiction_L archives and booklists and so far I have:
>>
>
>"Something startled you before," he said.
>She shot him the briefest glance and shrugged.
>"What was it?"
>She shrugged again. "You smiled. It changed your face." p213
>A quote from my current read:
>"The Vineyard" by Barbara Delinsky, publ 2000
>
>
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: "Maureen A. Socha" <[removed]@tcpl.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 1/8/02, 1:52 PM

Good afternoon,

Of course, why not Richard Bachman's (Stephen King) novel titled Thinner --
brief description -- the character loses weight rapidly due to a curse by a
gypsy. The weight loss may not be due to sweating it out in a gym, but it
still fits the request.

Thanks,

Maureen

At 10:41 AM 1/8/02 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Looking for novels dealing with dieting or someone who is losing or has
lost weight. I checked the Fiction_L archives and booklists and so far I
have:
>
>Cannell - THIN WOMAN
>Weiner - GOOD IN BED
>McCorkle - CRASH DIET
>Massman - JUST DESSERTS
>
>And one of the Diane Mott Davidson's mysteries dealt with low-fat dieting
and recipes but can't remember which one. I'd appreciate a memory jog.
>
>Thanks!
>Robin Beerbower
>Salem (OR) Public Library
[removed]@open.org
>
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>
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do not necessarily reflect TCPL policy."

Maureen A. Socha
Reference/Periodicals Librarian
Tippecanoe County Public Library
627 South Street
Lafayette, IN 47901-1470
voice mail: 756-429-0240
email: [removed]@tcpl.lib.in.us
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FROM: Thelma Stone <[removed]@fortworthlibrary.org>
REC'D: 1/8/02, 2:13 PM

Venise T. Berry. All of Me.

FROM: Dottie MacKeen <[removed]@bellatlantic.net>
REC'D: 1/8/02, 2:33 PM

Jemima J by Jane Green

FROM: "Jeanne Etling" <[removed]@nslsilus.org>
REC'D: 1/8/02, 3:39 PM

Robin,

The Lindy Haggerty mysteries by Freydont talk about dieting all the time.
Lindy was a dancer, now an empty nester housewife whose husband travels on
business. She helps a long-time friend who's in a jam and ends up becoming
rehearsal director for a modern dance company where, of course, she ends up
solving mysteries.

Jeanne Etling
Dundee (IL) Township Public Library District

FROM: Lynne Welch <[removed]@oplin.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 1/8/02, 3:59 PM

Hi Robin!
we're in the terminal phases (sorry -- reeeeaaaaallllly bad pun
<tee hee>) here of a major software & hardware migration process
here, so I'm just now getting around to some of my old mail from
this past month.
I had faxed you the Kaite Mediatore article on electronic
Book discussion groups from RUSA, and I got a response from you
around 12/18 or maybe a few days later. When I went to open it,
and everything I've received since 12/17, it was blank.
Could you possibly re-send? So sorry to trouble you. If it
was just "thanks for sending" you don't need to bother, but if you
had comments or it didn't come through right please let me know.
thanks,
Lynne

At 10:41 AM 1/8/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Looking for novels dealing with dieting or someone who is losing or has
>lost weight. I checked the Fiction_L archives and booklists and so far I have:
>
>Cannell - THIN WOMAN
>Weiner - GOOD IN BED
>McCorkle - CRASH DIET
>Massman - JUST DESSERTS
>
>And one of the Diane Mott Davidson's mysteries dealt with low-fat dieting
>and recipes but can't remember which one. I'd appreciate a memory jog.
>
>Thanks!
>Robin Beerbower
>Salem (OR) Public Library
[removed]@open.org
>
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

Lynne Welch - Reference Librarian
Herrick Memorial Library - Wellington OH 44090
tel. 440-647-2120 fax 440-647-2103
email: <[removed]@oplin.lib.oh.us>
website: <www.wellington.lib.oh.us>

FROM: Suzanne Booker <[removed]@monroe.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 1/8/02, 4:52 PM

Wally Lamb - She's Come Undone
Scott Morris - The Total View of Taftly

FROM: "Bradshaw, Charlotte" <[removed]@plsinfo.org>
REC'D: 1/8/02, 5:02 PM

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FROM: "BookBitch" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 1/8/02, 10:57 PM

SHEILA LEVINE IS DEAD AND LIVING IN NEW YORK by Gail Parent
The forerunner of Bridget Jones, Sheila Levine is "a lonely, thirtyish,
overweight woman living in New York City." [Gale net] She diets, she dates,
she deals with her mother. From 1972

I am the BookBitch
www.bookbitch.com


-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of ROBIN BEERBOWER
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 1:42 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Diet Fiction


Hi All,

Looking for novels dealing with dieting or someone who is losing or has lost
weight. I checked the Fiction_L archives and booklists and so far I have:

Cannell - THIN WOMAN
Weiner - GOOD IN BED
McCorkle - CRASH DIET
Massman - JUST DESSERTS

And one of the Diane Mott Davidson's mysteries dealt with low-fat dieting
and recipes but can't remember which one. I'd appreciate a memory jog.

Thanks!
Robin Beerbower
Salem (OR) Public Library
[removed]@open.org





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FROM: "Jodi Felde" <[removed]@ncats.net>
REC'D: 1/9/02, 8:47 AM

Murder Has No Calories by Corinne Holt Sawyer.

Jodi Felde
Fremont Area District Library
Fremont, MI

>Hi All,
>
>Looking for novels dealing with dieting or someone who is losing or has
lost weight. I checked the Fiction_L archives and booklists and so far I
have:
>
>Cannell - THIN WOMAN
>Weiner - GOOD IN BED
>McCorkle - CRASH DIET
>Massman - JUST DESSERTS
>
>And one of the Diane Mott Davidson's mysteries dealt with low-fat dieting
and recipes but can't remember which one. I'd appreciate a memory jog.
>
>Thanks!
>Robin Beerbower
>Salem (OR) Public Library
[removed]@open.org
>

FROM: "Carol Kubala" <[removed]@columbiapl.libct.org>
REC'D: 1/9/02, 9:19 AM

Throw Darts at a Cheesecake by Denise Dietz

still trying to think of others.....

Are you compiling for the list?

Carol

--
Carol Kubala
Adult Services Librarian
Columbia/Saxton B. Little Free
Voice 860-228-0350 Fax 860-228-1569

FROM: "ROBIN BEERBOWER" <[removed]@mail.open.org>
REC'D: 1/9/02, 12:10 PM

We have enough for our purpose and yes, I will compile the list in a day or two. Thanks so much for all of the suggestions.

Robin Beerbower
Outreach Services
Salem Public Library
PO Box 14810
Salem, OR 97309
503-588-6089


>>> [removed]@columbiapl.libct.org 01/09 8:16 AM >>>
Throw Darts at a Cheesecake by Denise Dietz

still trying to think of others.....

Are you compiling for the list?

Carol

--
Carol Kubala
Adult Services Librarian
Columbia/Saxton B. Little Free
Voice 860-228-0350 Fax 860-228-1569

FROM: David Wright <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 1/9/02, 8:07 PM

The Total View of Taftly: A Novel
by Scott M. Morris

The sweetly ineffectual last survivor of a
decayed
southern family pines in vain for a Total View of
his place in the cosmos. Taftly Harper has a lot
going for him, but somehow it never all comes
together. The sole heir of his towns first
family, he works as a truck driver for his own
holding, the Copiah Springs Bottled Water
Company. Spurred on by a jogging magazine, he
loses a ton of baby fat, but instead of his buff
new bod bringing
him together with his dream girl, it makes him
the target of the elephantine Clydesdale twins.
Neither the Catholic priest nor the Baptist
minister he consults about this trauma can make
him whole again. Soon thereafter, he not only
meets his dream girl in the person of Fay Davis
but rescues her from Rodney Train, her brutish
suitor, and wins her undying gratitudethough
their single sexual encounter doesnt deter her
from marriage to a local doctor, and leaves
Taftly haunted besides. When Taftly retreats to a
cabin in the woods to lick his wounds, handyman
Dennis Jolly shifts his cracked attention from
the alien abductions hes convinced hes a frequent
victim
of to recording Taftlys every distracted
utterance on tape and peddling the results in
hopes of becoming a millennial Boswell.
Meanwhile, Rodney Train writes from the state pen
vowing to kill him. First-timer Morris retails
Taftlys modest adventures with a beguiling
inconsequence worthy of his amiable hero, even
though the lunacy is a little too neatly and
generously distributed,
and never adds up to a Total View, or much of
anything else. Think of Nathanael Wests splenetic
A Cool Million with all the bile replaced by
bottled spring water and have a nice day.
-Kirkus

Something's Wrong With Your Scale! : A
Romantic Comedy by Van Whitfield

Fat Chance (Five Star Standard Print Romance)
by Terry Campbell

Throw darts at a cheesecake. & Beat up a cookie.
by Denise Dietz.


> >Hi All,
> >
> >Looking for novels dealing with dieting or
> someone who is losing or has
> lost weight. I checked the Fiction_L archives
> and booklists and so far I
> have:
> >
> >Cannell - THIN WOMAN
> >Weiner - GOOD IN BED
> >McCorkle - CRASH DIET
> >Massman - JUST DESSERTS
> >
> >And one of the Diane Mott Davidson's mysteries
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FROM: Tammy <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 1/13/02, 9:56 AM

One more to add that I haven't seen listed:

Killer Diller by Clyde Edgerton.

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FROM: "ROBIN BEERBOWER" <[removed]@mail.open.org>
REC'D: 1/17/02, 11:19 AM

Thanks to everyone who submitted titles and thank you for your patience!

DIET FICTION

Bachman, Richard (Stephen King). THINNER
Bennett, Cherie. LIFE IN THE FAT LANE (young adult)
Berry, Venise T. ALL OF ME
Brett, Simon. MRS. PARGETTER'S POUND OF FLESH
Brown, Mary. PIGS DON'T FLY
Campbell, Terry. FAT CHANCE
Cannell, Dorothy. THIN WOMAN
Deveraux, Jude. WISHES
Dietz, Denise. BEAT UP A COOKIE
Dietz, Denise. THROW DARTS AT A CHEESECAKE
Edgerton, Clyde. KILLER DILLER
Fielding, Helen. BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY
Freydont, Shelley. Linda Haggerty mysteries
Green, Jane. JEMIMA J...
Hess, Joan. A DIET TO DIE FOR
Lamb, Wally. SHE'S COME UNDONE
Massman, Patti. JUST DESSERTS
McCorkle, Jill. CRASH DIET
Michaels, Fern. DEAR EMILY
Morris, Scott M.. THE TOTAL VIEW OF TAFTLY
Parent, Gail. SHEILA LEVINE IS DEAD AND LIVING IN NEW YORK
Pinkwater, Daniel. THE AFTERLIFE DIET
Pinkwater, Daniel. FAT CAMP COMMANDOS GO WEST (juvenile)
Pinkwater, Daniel. FAT CAMP COMMANDOS (juvenile)
Rich, Virginia. NANTUCKET DIET MURDERS
Sawyer, Corinne Holt. MURDER HAS NO CALORIES
SCIENCE FICTION WEIGHT LOSS BOOK
Sussman, Susan. THE DIETER
Weiner, Jennifer. GOOD IN BED
Whitfield, Van. SOMETHING'S WRONG WITH YOUR SCALE!


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Salem Public Library
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Salem, OR 97309
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