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Summary: Beautiful Book
Review: 42% of 1st-3rd grade girls want to be thinner.
81% of 10 year old girls are worried about being fat.
Supermodels are thinner than 98% of the average American woman, yet their influence is SO strong on so many...I'm just becoming a teenager of 13 and because I've had some of the same ideals Lorri did for a while...living in our generation the question is no longer "HOW can you think in a pro-anorexic, body-image-depressed way?!" the question is now "How can you NOT?!" Growing up right now is really hard because I'm surrounded by beautiful people and the "perfect body, the
"perfect person" and the "ideal 2.6 children, communicating, Leave-it-to-Beaver family." For example, not long ago on of my teachers said, "the ideal family is many different kinds..." she went on to later say, "How many of you talk to your family and have family dinners everynight?" When I didn't raise my hand, she exclaimed "Sam, you DON'T?!" and continued to lecture me about why her family, newsmakers, and all the other perfect people in my class are so successful (because of family dinners) and I wasn't just because my father doesn't get home early enough to eat with us, I'm always busy, my brother takes a lot of classes, my mom works all the time, and my other brother is completely focused on soccer. I guess I'm going to be a complete failure because my family eats pizza sometimes... Anyways, back on the subject of anorexia and today...in the book, everything it said are almost my exact thoughts. Lorri's story made me cry because it brought back a lot of painful memories of sitting over a toilet bowl just after throwing up my dinner. Yes, I was bulimic, but I am pretty good now. Stick Figure has so many truths to so many people that starve themselves to be thin. And Lorri's ways of escaping the hospital and how she cleverally escapes eating even in the treatment center. This is a beautiful book and if everyone was required to read it, there just might be more places for support and parents that actually understand that sometimes, their behaviours are very destructive. Read this book, and you will not be let down!
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Summary: Stick Figure
Review: Stick Figure Stick Figure, by Lori Gottlieb is non-fiction and is very fascinating and interesting. It's in the form of a diary written by a girl named Lori who is 11 years old and writes in her perspective about her life and her eating disorder. I would recommend this book because once you open it you can't close it.
Bad things begin happening to Lori, her friends at school betray her, and Lori starts dieting to become slender. She goes on trip with her family to Washington D.C to visit her relatives. Lori thinks her cousin, Kate, has really great legs and when she's not crossing her legs they still look thin. Then Lori's dieting starts to become more serious and her family finally notices that it's not just a diet Lori has an eating disorder. She gets sent to a hospital since she's on the road for death since now she looks like a stick figure.
This book is very powerful and helped me understand about eating disorder and gave me more appreciation for who I'm on the inside and out.
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Summary: Not what I thought It'd Be
Review: When I first bought this book, I read the part that said Diary of My Former Self. From that I thought I'd be reading a book that was actually in a diary format of an 11 year old girl. Instead I found that this "diary" was completely unbelievable. I'm sure that Lori did have an eating disorder and tried to tell everyone her story later in life, but in passing it off as an 11 year old's diary is complete ludacris. The book did have a positive message though. But I found that they didn't go deep enough into meaning and thoughts for the book. Overall I was a little disappointed. It was also unbelievable how just one day she decided that she was sick of dieting and wanted to eat again. I would read this book if you are looking for something fiction to read but not if you are looking for an insightful diary to reflect on.
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Summary: Her Mother!
Review: I just want to thank God that my mother wasn't as nutzo as
lori's was. No wonder the poor thing had such trouble. This
book made me feel deep anxiety for lori's situation, as well
as just wanting to beat the hell out of her mother and all other
people like her!
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Summary: Stick Figure
Review: In our modern day existence of superficial supermodels and fad diets, women are forced to analyze and dwell on their body image. Although this is a common practice for adults, many people neglect to see that the very same distorted images are as much of a concern for children. The roots of these problems lay in idealization of role models. The hassle a mother may go through to gain the perfect body is perceived by her children to be socially accepted. Such is the problem between Lori and her mother in the book Stick Figure.
Lori is a bright, talented eleven-year-old who is growing up in Beverly Hills. She is surrounded by ,in her eyes, her skinnier friends who she sees as perfect. As if the pressures on an eleven-year-old aren't tough enough, Lori's mother constantly pressures Lori with never ending comments such as "Why can't you be like the other little girls?" and "Why can't you have a nice body shape?" Because of these comments and her noticing some so called fat on her legs, Lori decided to do something about the way her body looked.
I feel this book is trying to give the reader a compelling look into the eyes of an eleven-year-old, although I can't really say that I beleive that it was written as a diary from the view of a child. I found the words and sayings were to advanced to sound believable from a child of that age. I also found it quite annoying that Lori bragged about her academic life. It would have been much easier to take if the writer of the book wasn't the main character bragging about herself.
I found the book to be a funny yet somewhat informative view of the way a child would deal with an eating disorder. From my exoperience with an eating disorder I can say that that the book is by no means is an accurate discription of the true world of disorders. I feel the book left out a few key details having to do with eating disorders that would have enhanced the feeling behind the book.
... Although the book is nothing to stand up and cheer about I would reccomend it to a yonger crowd.
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Summary: In Celebration of the 11 Year Old Mind
Review: I highly recommend this book to all people who have any 11 year olds in their life. Lori's 11 year old mind reflects what any bright, thoughtful, questioning 11 year old might think if only she/he allowed herself to think out loud. The conclusions she comes to based on her observations of adult behavior are hysterically funny and frightenly accurate. Many of these refer to food, but other's are just about life in general. While especially helpful to anyone wanting to understand the beginnings of eating disordered thinking, this book is just a plain good read for anyone who enjoys seeing life from another's perspective. Thanks to Lori for sharing this part of her life with us.
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Summary: A good night time read
Review: This book was good, pretty much a typical anorexic story aside from the humor which at times had me laughing out loud. Not really "groundbreaking" at this point b/c the subject is so overpublished; however, a good read that is relatable, in my opinion, by a lot of girls. Especially those who feel a little different everyday and a little unsure of themselves.
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Summary: Stick Figure
Review: In the image-conscious world of 1970s Beverly Hills, 11-year-old Lori knows she's different. Instead of trading clothes and dreaming of teen idols like most of her pre-adolescent friends, Lori prefers reading books, writing in her journal and making up her own creative homework assignments. Chronically disapproving of her parents' shallow lifestyle, she challenges their authority and chafes under their constant demands to curb her frank opinions and act more "ladylike." Feeling as though she has lost control over her rapidly changing world, Lori focuses all her concentration on one subject: dieting. Her life narrows to a single goal--to be "...the thinnest eleven year old on the entire planet." But once she achieves her "stick figure," Lori really sees herself for the first time in a restaurant bathroom mirror and decides then and there to bring herself back from the brink of starvation.
I found this book to be rather shallow. There obviously was more to Lori's eating disorder than her simply choosing to stop eating one day. Yet Lori glosses over clear examples of her mother's disdain for her and seeming lack-of-affection, preferring to focus on her mother's poor body image instead. The author also repeatedly gave references to what an intelligent, precocious child she was and how persecuted she was for enjoying math; this got annoying after a while. Although it seems unlikely that Lori would decide to start eating so suddenly after a botched suicide attempt and without any set-backs, I will say that the causes and cures for anorexia nervosa are mystifying. However, there did not seem to be any question that Lori might die in the first place. I can understand the author not desiring glamorize these high-profile disorders, but I feel there was too much humor and sarcasm and not enough evidence of genuine danger.
My favorite part was when Lori turned he life around and started eating again. I believe I saw this as my favorite art because, at the beginning I, myself, thought she was going to die. I guess to me it was just a turning point in Lori's life because she had decided to start eating again. I won't tell you how the book ended; I do suggest you read this book, though. After reading and enjoying this book, I rate this book with four stars.
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Summary: Stick Figure
Review: This book is a good book for teenage girls. Lori a girl who thinks she is fat because she is in a society were girls have to be thin and beautiful or else they will become secretaries. She is trapped in her head thinking that she is fat. She eats as little as possible only 200 calories a day. Her parents don't really understand her, and often forget her. One time she didn't speak for a week and her parents didn't notice. Read this funny but sad book and find out more.
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Summary: Made me understand -PELASE READ-
Review: One of my best friends (who is now in a physc ward for slitting her wrist) was anorexic... she didnt actully tell me she was... but you could tell. I had no idea y someone so great, would want to ruin her life in such a sad way. This book made me see y, it made me understand y some people do this. After reading this book i knew how to talk to my friend, i knew what to expect in her responses. I told her about this book... and she read it... she got some help afterwards. As for her slitting her wrist... im now starting to read up on that subject... maybe someday I'll understand that too. Im not saying cutting and starving yourself is good, but the book makes you look at anorexia a little differently. You learn its not just a choice, but a deasise as well. -SoRrY foR thE SpeLLinG!-
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