RaveCBC (CAN)... reads like a comic, but works like a weekend zen retreat ... As [Bechdel] takes us through her history with exercise fads, she folds in time-travelling interludes about the thinkers and literary figures mentioned earlier. It sounds odd, but it works ... Whenever her story takes these tangents, Bechdel injects zingers and reality checks. She is her own best heckler. Whatever the opposite of preachy is, Alison Bechdel has it mastered ... It\'s all quite a lot funnier, and more thought provoking than it sounds. If only you can relax enough to lose yourself in a comic.
