Wow. This book is relentless, intense, and depressing... That being said, it also seems realistic. It chronicles Lia's descent into anorexia and self-harm. Her best friend was bulemic and has died at the beginning of the book. She tried to call Lia multiple times on the night she died, but Lia didn'...
I didn't mean to finish this tonight but I did and now I won't be able to sleep until I get my thoughts written down. So, tada, here are my thoughts. Wintergirls focuses on Lia, a girl battling with anorexia when she learns her (former)best friend and eating disorder partner, Cassie, has died. Pa...
With Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson offers readers a textbook example of wasted potential. This book has strong characters, inspired syntax, well-paced plotting, and a complex, multi-faceted social issue to which we all can relate. Why, then, do I suggest that Wintergirls is "good, not great"?...
Speak was a vital book of my adolescence--it is a YA problem novel done exactly right--by which I mean the problems of the main character do not take the histrionic, exhibitionist center stage that is so often found in YA lit of this type. The focus of that story is trained on the protagonist and he...
This book is both intensely fascinating and difficult to read.Wintergirls is the story of Lia, an anorexic teenager who feels responsible for the death of her bulimic best friend.Even though I never felt a connection to Lia, her story was interesting enough to keep me reading. I loved the mixture of...
Wintergirls is definitely an incredibly intense read. And it is real. There is no sugar coated motifs, no real happily ever afters, no handsome knights in shining armor to save the fragile quirky and endearing antagonist. This is exactly what an eating disorder looks like, this is exactly what losin...
Laurie Halse Anderson had already won my heart with the amazing novel Speak about a girl who was raped at a party and called the cops. This book is just as amazing! Lia finds out her friend and fellow winter girl was found dead in a motel room. Nobody knows why but Lia is fearing the worth. Lia is b...
Big fan of Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson and so far I'm a big fan of Wintergirls as well. Its dark and depressing with beautifully poetic writing. There are quite a few triggering moments in this book so I wouldn't recommend it to someone recovering from an eating disorder or self harm. Its quite a...
This girl shivers and crawls under the covers with all her clothes on and falls into an overdue library book, a faerie story with rats and marrow and burning curses. The sentences build a fence around her, a Times Roman 10-point barricade, to keep the thorny voices in her head from getting too close...
This is the first time I’ve read anything by Laurie Halse Anderson, and I think she’s brilliant. This was one of the saddest and most moving books I’ve ever read. I can’t imagine the pain of going through an illness like this. I found it difficult to follow Lia’s journey without becoming depressed. ...
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