"…How many people wake up one morning, take a deep breath of clean mountain air and say to themselves 'Wow. What a great day! I think I'll go out and get myself mauled by a bear'? This one's not quite full-grown, and it's haunched down like a dog, tensed and coiled and ready to spring. We make eye contact for the merest fraction of a second, and in this moment I know exactly what's coming…." -From Chomp, Chomp, Chomp; How I Survived a Bear Attack and Other Harrowing Tales. Copyright 2012 by Allena Hansen Meet Allena Hansen, for whom a vicious bear attack was "no biggie" compared to the trauma inflicted by her refined sixties upbringing, stint as Playboy's token intellectual bimbo, and enough cowgirl angst to knock even Job for a loop. Here she's compiled a tragicomic collection of latter day Grimm's Fairy Tales in which she introduces the smart-assed socialite and full-contact gardener Hunter S. Thompson once toasted as "The distaff Hunter S. Thompson", and muckraker Andrew Breitbart, called out in a roomful of Republican bigwigs as "the coolest person in the room". Offering herself up as a cautionary example, Ms. Hansen poses the age-old question, 'What makes a survivor?" Read this book and remain as puzzled as ever, but you'll likely marvel at her uncompromisingly bad judgment and uncanny resilience—and you just might learn something that could save your life.