Jillian Lauren
Author of Some Girls: My Life in a Harem
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Jillian Lauren is a New York Times Best Selling author of such works as Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, Pretty, and Everything You Ever Wanted. She grew up in Livingston, New Jersey and graduated from Newark Academy in 1991. She then moved to New York Ciity where she studied acting at New York show more University. Soon after, she started exotic dancing in New York and became an escort. This led to being selected to join the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah of Brunei for several years. She then sttended Antioch University and graduated with an MFA in creative writing. She used her degree to begin her writing career. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and Los Angeles Magazine. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Adult- Based on a True Story in Name that Book (October 2010)
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While this is ostensibly a book about the very glamorous high-end of the sex trade, I found most notable its description of anorexia, the most accurate that I have ever seen in print: "The tricky thing about starving yourself is that it starts out feeling terrible and then it feels great until you realize you can't stop."
Interessantes Buch mit einem Einblick in eine fremde Welt.
Ihr Vater hat sie geschlagen und sie wurde adoptiert und nahm Drogen. Dann ist sie sehr schnell in das Leben als Prostituierte herein gerutscht. Das es beim Sultan mit dickem Bankkonto und nicht in der Gosse endete war dann letztlich Glück.
Ihr Vater hat sie geschlagen und sie wurde adoptiert und nahm Drogen. Dann ist sie sehr schnell in das Leben als Prostituierte herein gerutscht. Das es beim Sultan mit dickem Bankkonto und nicht in der Gosse endete war dann letztlich Glück.
This was quite a moving memoir about the author's international adoption process. It made it more interesting her husband is in a well-known band and that I was interested in her life after reading her first memoir, Some Girls. I enjoyed reading this book and I hope she continues to write.
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This is a well researched book, full of forensic information, but also gruesome in that it recounts many of Little's stories about how he went after his victims and killed them.
If you enjoy true crime, you might enjoy this, but it was bit gruesome for me.… (more)