LARA PARKER Ordre des livres

"With unflinching honesty, Lara Parker, the Deputy Director for BuzzFeed, shares her day-to-day challenges of living, working, and loving with chronic pain caused by endometriosis in this raw, darkly humorous, and hopeful memoir. I wasn't ready to be completely honest about my vagina yet, and the world wasn't ready for that either. But I was getting there. I wanted the world to know that all of this pain I had been feeling ... that it was related to my vagina. Thus, Vagina Problems was born. It was a cutesy name. It was my way of taking this pain and saying, 'Whatever. I'm here. I have it. It sucks. Let's talk about it.' In April 2014, Deputy Editorial Director at BuzzFeed Lara Parker opened up to the world in an article on the website: she suffers from endometriosis. And beyond that? She let the whole world know that she wasn't having any sex, as sex was excruciatingly painful. Less than a year before, she received not only the diagnosis of endometriosis, but also a diagnosis of pelvic floor dysfunction, vulvodynia, vaginismus, and vulvar vestibulitis. Combined, these debilitating conditions have wreaked havoc on her life, causing excruciating pain throughout her body since she was fourteen years old. These are her Vagina Problems. It was five years before Lara learned what was happening to her body. Five years of doctors insisting she just had 'bad period cramps,' or implying her pain was psychological. Shamed and stigmatized, Lara fought back against a medical community biased against women and discovered that the ignorance of many doctors about women's anatomy was damaging more than just her own life. One in ten women have endometriosis and it takes an average of seven years before they receive an accurate diagnosis--or any relief from this incurable illness' chronic pain. With candid revelations about her vaginal physical therapy, dating as a straight woman without penetrative sex, coping with painful seizures while at the office, diet and wardrobe malfunctions when your vagina hurts all the time, and the depression and anxiety of feeling unloved, Lara tackles it all in Vagina Problems: Endometriosis, Painful Sex, and Other Taboo Topics with courage, wit, love, and a determination to live her best life"-- Provided by publisher

Isola della Martinica, XVIII secolo. Uno sguardo, e il destino di Barnabas Collins è segnato. Per sempre. Il giovane ufficiale, infatti, s’innamora all’istante di Angelique Bouchard, una ragazza sensuale ed enigmatica dagli occhi profondi come il mare. E anche lei ben presto si lascia ammaliare da quel raffinato rampollo di una ricca famiglia del Maine. Così, quando poche settimane dopo il loro incontro lui le propone di sposarlo, lei accetta con entusiasmo. Prima di coronare il suo sogno d’amore, però, Angelique deve attendere un anno, il tempo necessario a Barnabas per intraprendere un lungo viaggio verso casa e ottenere la benedizione del padre. Ed è quindi soltanto al suo ritorno che Angelique fa una scoperta devastante: Barnabas ha smesso di amarla e ha già chiesto la mano di un’altra donna. Umiliata per l’affronto subito e accecata dalla gelosia, la ragazza gli giura allora una terribile vendetta: perché lei è un’adepta dello Spirito Oscuro, una strega esperta nell’arte della magia nera e in grado di condannare un uomo per l’eternità, trasformandolo in un vampiro... Diventata famosa per aver interpretato il personaggio di Angelique nella serie televisiva originale, con questo romanzo Lara Parker ci introduce nel fantastico mondo di <i>Dark Shadows</i>, il fenomeno di culto che ha ispirato l’omonimo film di Tim Burton.