"Candy and Me is delightful; a hilarious, counterintuitive romp through stacks of Necco Wafers, Smarties, Snickers and Jelly Bellies. Nutritionists might blanch at Liftin's celebratory narrative, but readers will agree that a life without sugar and love is a sour life indeed." (complete article)
--USA Today
Hilary Liftin is named the "IT Sweetheart" on Entertainment Weekly's IT LIST of the 100 Most Creative People in Entertainment (2003). "Liftin's Candy and Me...is palpable and utterly edible."
"Candy and Me may be the greatest book ever. At least for those who sully their copies with chocolate fingerprints while riding a serious gummy-bear high."
--Entertainment Weekly review
"Read the book, but hide your candy supply first—you’ll devour both in one sitting." (complete article)
--Newsweek
"Hilary Liftin's lovely and lyrical memoir charts the author's romantic blossomings against a backdrop of heavy candy consumption. Recommended by four out of five dentists who read books."
--Vanity Fair
"A life measured out in sugar might seem sickly sweet, but "Candy" is dandy...a delicious read." (complete article)
--New York Post
"To understand Hilary Liftin is to understand a sugar rush -- a sensation that elicits a simultaneous calm and a twitch produced from a sugar packet...a truffle...a Peep." (complete profile)
--Washington Post
"Liftin's preferred method of eating candy is chewing it. Eating candy is not, as she argues, about sucking or savouring, postponing gratification. It is about "instant and total immersion in the fine taste and texture." Much the same could be said for Hilary Liftin's book. Candy and Me (A Love Story) must be read all at once, in one sitting, page after page consumed in a sated haze of sweet delirium." (complete article)
--The Globe and Mail
Hilary Liftin's recipe for "What to Make When You're Nursing a Broken Heart" is featured in the July 2003 issue of Glamour.
Hilary Liftin's article "What Do Your Candy Choices Say about You" is featured in the October 2003 issue of Marie Claire.
"Liftin's story has its sugar highs and sugar lows, but in the end she finds satisfaction in the form of true love. Sweet."
--Ellegirl
"Need a yummy book for the beach? Read Candy and Me."
--Seventeen
"God bless Hilary Liftin...At time when many women are obsessing over buying the right brand of olive oil or forking over big bucks for a chunk of Parmigiano-Reggiano, Liftin is a breath of fresh, if sugar-coated, air.
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--Curled up with a Good Book
"A sweetly inventive memoir of one woman's life as seen through a candy-coated lens."
--Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"In this charming book, Liftin uses the intriguing conceit of telling her life story through candy....Liftin's writing is fluid and engaging, inviting consumption at one sitting--and, for some, instigating a mad rush to the closest candy counter."
--Publishers Weekly
"An entire memoir structured around the author's relationship with candy sounds like so much fluff. But Liftin turns her lifelong obsession with sugary confections into a surprisingly touching and interesting story."
--Booklist
"Engaging, humorous, and well-paced..."
--Library Journal
"Elegantly written, poignant, funny, and oh-so-sweet, Hilary Liftin's memoir of love and longing for candy, among a cornucopia of other things, is sheer satisfaction."
--Jenny McPhee, author of The Center of Things
"This book is funny and captivating; a delight. And I feel much better about my little problem with popcorn."
--Haven Kimmel, author of A Girl Named Zippy
"During an elementary school tour of a famous factory, I saw an assembly line worker sneeze into the argentine river of chocolate morsels, an image that for decades tainted my relationship with sweets. This disturbing memory has at last been exorcised by Hilary Liftin's deft wielding of candy as metaphor, milestone, and Madeleine. She is the Homer of her own confectionery Odyssey."
--Randy Cohen, Author of The New York Times Sunday Magazine column, "The Ethicist" and The Good, the Bad & the Difference: How to Tell Right from Wrong in Everyday Situations
"Candy and Me is pure sit-down comedy, and yet this lovely little book ultimately asks a quite serious question: is the one road to human happiness on earth made of sugar?"
--David Shields, Author of Enough About You
