Haunting

I just finished the book Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson. This book is incredibly haunting and was unlike anything I had ever read before. The book was about a teenage girl, Lia, and her descent into anorexia. Throughout the book Lia hallucinates that her childhood friend Cassie is visiting her, even though at the start of the book Cassie is found dead.
I have never read anything like this book before. The way that Lia was becoming anorexic and wanting to be so skinny she could disappear was frightening. At night Lia would see Cassie and wake up "breathing dirt and clay" but it would just be the sheet pressed over her face. I always thought that anorexia was more emotionally and physically clear, like "If I am skinny I am pretty" and "Skinny is beautiful" but it wasn't. Lia's mind became seriously disturbed and the way she saw everything was unreal. In TV shows that I have seen sometimes the anorexia is mostly only body and striving to be better but seems unrealistic. The girls in the shows just don't eat but none of the emotional and haunting things I found in Wintergirls is there. I really liked this book and thought it was good and opened my eyes to help me see how real and scary anorexia and other eating disorders really are.

BEST. BOOK. EVER.

I just finished The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky and it was the BEST BOOK EVER. The book is about Charlie in high school and his life with his new friends that he makes, Sam and Patrick along with others. The whole book is written through letters to an anonymous "friend" from Charlie as he observes the world he lives in. The book is very hard to explain because it is so good and reading it is an experience and I think it is probably a different experience for every person. I could not put this book down and read it in 3 days. Throughout the book you become very attached to Charlie and hurt when he hurts, feels infinite when he does, and wants to hug him when he cries. Charlie is such an emotional person so I could really connect to his innocence and thought that the writing overall was amazing. Charlies letters are so intimate and don't leave things out like some books  written in letter form. Totally, I love love love this book and highly recommend it to kids in our grade.