Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
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When Clay Jenkins receives a box containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends the night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah’s voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
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It was very... interesting. Not sure what to think about it though. I couldn't stop laughing when Elijah left with all of Lia's money for some reason, I don't know why. Found it odd when she says such things as "When I was a real girl," and "I just want to take off my skin so I can dance." Not quite my genre of choice, but an okay book.
When I was reading this book, this was by far one of my favorites. The way Lia is still connected to her best friend, and how they still have that "emotional" attachment, even after her friend has passed away. Was the bet really worth the pain and suffering she is going through? The only thing to me that is keeping Lia alive is her little sister, Emma. Her dramatic decisions effected her life, and her step mother's, father's, and her mother's lives. Will she overcome her bad decisions? Find out! :)
WINTERGIRLS is about this girl named Lia. Lia at first started out as a normal girl, but the night she made a pact with her best friend Cassie, things in her world changed forever. Cassie was always bulimic, stuffing her face with food then puking it up shortly after. She did this in the fear of gaining weight; she always wanted to be skinny. She wanted to be skinner then her best friend Lia. This however never happens, because Cassie’s bulimic ways catch up with her and leaves her dead in a hotel room. That is when the trouble begins to get worse for Lia. Lia sees Cassie's ghost, a constant reminder that Cassie called her before her death begging for help. She didn’t pick up the phone. They haven’t talked for months so why would she? Anyhow, the help Cassie was seeking was way unbearable. With that guilt weighting heavily on Lia’s chest, she begins to struggle even more with her anorexia. She has to be smaller, weighing under a hundred pounds isn’t good enough, she has to be zero and only then will she be happy. Lia’s body is dying, she’s not getting the nutrients it needs and it’s falling apart inside and out. When Lia makes the choice to run away, what will happen to her? Read this book to find out!
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