Reading Times

Last week I picked up the book Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson. I started reading it in class and I really liked it. A girl named Lia who just heard her best friend died. It was sad, but I liked it. After first reading it in class, I read at break, at home, and anywhere else. I think Lia deals with the problems of a normal teenage girl in more extreme ways than most. She constantly starves herself and thinks she needs to be skinnier all the time even though she weighs 99 pounds. Her goal is 90 but she is already way too small. Her parents sent her to a therapist and they tried to help her but they could not. She fakes her weight so her parents won't send her back.

I think it's sad that she just wants to be the skinniest possible because she can really endanger her health. There are much better ways to lose weight than to starve yourself, and she doesn't even need to lose weight because she is the skinniest girl she knows, yet is still not happy with herself. Well, anyway, I am enjoying the book even though it seems like I'm not.

~Emma <3

Reading Times

Tuesday: Wintergirls By: Laurie Halse Anderson: 35 mins. pgs 90- 101
Wednesday: Wintergirls By: Laurie Halse Anderson 20 mins. 101- 112
Thursday: Wintergirls By: Laurie Halse Anderson 45 mins. 112- 142
Saterday: Wintergirls By: Laurie Halse Anderson 30 mins. 142- 160
Sunday: Wintergirls By: Laurie Halse Anderson 20 mins. 160- 182