Picks and Pans Review: By Our Staff

UPDATED 06/21/2004 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 06/21/2004 at 01:00 AM EDT

THE WEIGHT-LOSS DIARIES (McGraw-Hill, $14.95) PEOPLE correspondent Courtney Rubin riffs on her life as a chronic dieter. "The image I had of myself kept getting fatter," she writes, "blowing up like Violet, who chews the not-yet-perfected gum in Willy Wonka." By the end of this frank, funny memoir, she has gone from carb binger to marathon runner.