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11 Citation I came across a post on Jezebel today about Laurie Halse Anderson?s new book, Wintergirls , and a New York Times piece on its potential to be a ?trigger.? The book is about a girl with anorexia. In the interest of full disclosure, I haven?t read Wintergirls yet. From what I know about Anderson and her books though, she?s an incredible YA writer who meticulously researches her subjects, everything from yellow fever to slavery to (now) eating disorders. She?s active in the YA community an, technorati.com
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Teens & the Troubling Allure of Eating Disorder Books 1 Citation There?s a new fiction book out about a teenage girl?s descent into anorexia called Wintergirls, by Laurie Halse Anderson. Apparently it?s causing quite the stir, even though it hasn?t become as popular as other ?thinspiration? or ?pro-ana? books might be; perhaps it?s too new? All the same, the general concern in the eating disorder recovery field is that books like these could encourage certain teens to engage in disordered eating behavior, particularly those already predispositioned, technorati.com
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Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson 1 Citation Don't you love it when a book lives up to the hype? Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson does. What's the book about? Lia and her best friend Cassie make a vow to each other to be the skinniest and to keep each other strong when it's hard to be skinny. At Thanksgiving of their senior year, Cassie checks into a hotel room alone and dies. Before she dies, she calls Lia thirty-three times and Lia does not answer. (This is not a spoiler, btw , it's in the first few pages.) The rest o, technorati.com
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1 Citation I often end up listening to an audiobook because my previous audiobook is over, this new audiobook is checked in, and I haven?t yet gotten around to reading the ?actual? book, even though I have wanted to. Sometimes, though, I end up with an audiobook because I have been told that the reader did such an amazing job that it would be silly to read the book for myself. This is a case of the latter. Laurie Halse Anderson always does a great job capturing an authentic teen voice in her novels, and, technorati.com
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Ypulse Essentials: Threadless Tees, Forensics Class In High School, Cyber Millennials 1 Citation The unsinkable 'SpongeBob' (The Atlantic explores the enduring appeal of the decade-old franchise. Plus, the full-length HD trailer for 'Princess and the Frog' ) (The Atlantic) - Threadless Tees (the crowdsourced t-shirt design site talks about building brand love on ReadWriteWeb. Plus, more thoughts on Millennials and "Facebook fatigue" ) (demo dirt) - Do celebrity gossip sites factor into bullying? (Jezebel responds to an op-ed piece in the Sydney Morning Herald that places the b, technorati.com
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Wintergirls: A Novel About Anorexia 1 Citation My friend Lizzy, aka the writer Elizabeth A Lynn , pointed me at Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson . It?s a young adult novel about anorexia. We talked about it on the phone and she said: its not really about adolescence; the protagonist is 18. It?s about family dynamics. I?ve never encountered the author before, but damn she?s good. I think the book deserves a tremendous amount of attention. Some quotes from the New York Times Sunday Book Review : Anorexia? imposes profou, technorati.com
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What more can I do to help our planet? More thoughts about EARTH IN THE HOT SEAT 1 Citation Thinking about EARTH IN THE HOT SEAT all day since I wrote the previous post, I remembered that years ago I wrote an article for Parents Magazine called "How I Helped Save the Planet." I wonder if it's online. If I had a little elf or a Queen Louise like Laurie does, I would scan it in and post it as a pdf or something. Anyway, I talked about all we were trying to do to help. We are still doing most of those things (though I seem to remember washing out plastic bags, which became too much of a, technorati.com
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The Collision of Technology and Literature 1 Citation Everywhere we turn these days, it seems as if technology is changing the way we experience literature. Amazon's Kindle is growing in popularity, more people get their news from the web than from print newspapers (with the result of print newspapers dying out faster than you can say "RSS feed"), and authors are interacting with fans on a whole new level via Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites.I think the jury's still out with regards to how this all affects literature overall, but, technorati.com
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Fever 1793 The Worst Kind of Horror Story 1 Citation (Image from Target) "Wives were deserted by husbands, and children by parents. The chambers of diseases were deserted, and the sick left to die of negligence. None could be found to remove the lifeless bodies. Their remains, suffered to decay by piecemeal, filled the air with deadly exhalations, and added tenfold to the devastation." - Charles Brockden Brown ( Arthur Mervyn ; or Memoirs of the Year 1793 ; quoted on Page 105) Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson is the wor, technorati.com
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Reading about it will make you do it? 1 Citation We?ve read recently about controversy over YA author Laurie Halse Anderson?s recent novel, Wintergirls , in which a high school girl struggles with anorexia and her friend?s death from the disease. Critics of the book say it serves as a ?how-to? guide to anorexia for young people. In related news, school officials at Williamson County Schools in Franklin, Tennessee , have decided to remove the Young Adult Library Services Association?s (YALSA) list of ? best books for young adults ? from, technorati.com
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