This is a book about anorexia nervosa mainly. "Tell Lia she won. Learn.

What did Lia call the place where her father and step-mother, Jennifer lived? The novel follows Lia Overbrook, an eighteen-year-old struggling with anorexia and self-mutilation. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Have you ever felt so emotionally numb that you just wanted to feel something, even if it was painful? During a fight about her weight, Dr. Marrigan point-blank tells Lia that she's personally operated on some of the best judges in the country. Wintergirls is thoroughly depressing. Emma's basketball team is sponsored by her mother's bank; Jennifer gets the coach to give her daughter more time on the court by threatening to pull the sponsorship if Emma doesn't play enough. The surface violence is eclipsed by the dark world of Lia’s own thoughts.

Lia enjoyed a close relationship with both of her grandmothers, but they passed away long before Cassie’s death. Award Nominee (2010), Iowa High School Book Award Nominee (2011), CYBILS Award Nominee for Young Adult Fiction (2009), Literaturpreis der Jury der jungen Leser for Cover (2011), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fiction (2009), Premio El Templo de las Mil Puertas Nominee for Mejor novela extranjera independiente (2010). At first, the visits happen only at night.
Spell. Why? But Laurie Halse Anderson is very close to the top of the list of my favorite authors who write for teens, and this is the second title in the row of hers that I've given two stars. Laurie Halse Anderson knows how to write a good and powerful book! I am thawing. What choices could she have made differently? This book gets five stars and not four from me, despite a couple of flaws, because Lia seemed so real and the writing style was wonderful and the language was lovely. Jennifer - Lia's step-mother, who married Prof. Overbrook shortly after his separation from his first This review is brought to you by Focus on the Family, a donor-based ministry. Cassie was found in a motel room, dead.

Most are friendly. Lia shows Elijah her naked torso. I really enjoyed the book but I also agree with your review. It turns out to be a green lollipop. Cassie thought heaven was a fairytale that only stupid people believed. Lia compares her recovery to a nun pledging herself to a convent. Lia's father, David, frequently cheated on her mother with at least four or five different women, maybe more. While still in the hotel, starving and perilously close to a sleeping pill overdose, Lia fades in and out of consciousness. Test. Lia can escape them by sleeping with her stepsister, Emma, taking sleeping pills or exercising until she collapses from exhaustion. But there is one boy who seems kinda involved and kinda all right. She offers a rational explanation for events that occurred.

The loudest and most horrific is, of course, Cassie reminding her that they have a pact and that she is waiting for Lia between the veil of this world and the next. Was that something that I wanted to read about. She tries to get Emma to eat healthy food, but it doesn't work. Get emailed whenever I write about Sexxiness. Most center on the story of Persephone and Pluto — the goddess of spring kidnapped by the god of the underworld and forced to be his bride.
Let's be skinniest together p. 1, 178, What did Lia refer to her Mom as? Lia and Cassie were always the best of friends. I initially found this book to be absolutely repulsive - the narrative was suffused with this sense that something was hideously wrong, and the devices that Anderson was using to describe narrator Lia's reality hinted at a disturbing mania.

You can request a review of a title you can’t find at [email protected]. Why does Lia starve herself? Cassie waits for her in the aisles. Although I couldn't understand what moved Lia to do certain things, I had a good look at her inner world which was a terrifying and bleak place. It frustrated me to a point that made me just want to close this book and throw it away (which I could not do since I borrowed it from a library) and pick a nice and enjoyable series (The Mortal Instruments or The Gallagher Girls perhaps). Lia, of what I know, was anorexic even before the death of her ex bestfriend Cassie.

She treasures each baby step she makes toward recovery. She hopes that Emma’s accomplishments will reflect positively on her parenting skills. He accompanies her to Cassie’s burial.


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