This is actually a book of poetry -- although the poems all fit together to tell one larger story. They're brutal, beautiful, stark, funny, and very very sad. Definitely worth reading -- it's one I always recommended to my female students, and they were always moved by it.

This is literally one of the best books i've ever read. I don't think i've ever been so close to an author before. she writes beautifully and honestly. No one has ever come so close to putting love on paper. Corrigan has hit the nail on the head. I wish she wrote more. Eireann your amazing! her story should be shared with everyone everywhere.

This book is a poetic memoir of a young girl through her high school years and beyond. We find her struggling with many of the problems adolescents face during these difficult years. In addition our young writer is slowly starving herself to death in an attempt to become the perfect girl she imagines the object of her affection desires her to be. Daniel, the object of her affection, is struggling with his own demons, drugs, manic swings, and self-isolation. The two are bound by a strange interde More...

Eireann developed an eating disorder when she was in high school and had to be hospitalized. After she left treatment, she went right back to her old habits – controlling everything that went into her body. She is well on her way to starving herself (or winding up back in the hospital) when she finds out that her former boyfriend/best friend has attempted suicide. He shoots himself in the head, but survives. Eireann spends months with him as they both recover. Somehow his desire to kill himself More...

Erianne Corrigan, despite the serious tone of this book, has a great senseof humor. The author profile in her first book (this one) says she hopes to marry Bob Dylan someday. Her second book's profile says, "Since I haven't heard back from Bob Dylan..." I like that the author maintains a sense of humor and hopeful happiness despite the tragic struggles of her life. This memoir is different than most YA books that are told through the genre of poetry (such as Sonya Sones's What My Mother Doesn't More...

Talk about looking back and mining your experiences, mining your pain -- the things so many of us try to forget and leave behind. Corrigan focuses a harsh yet loving, human eye on the many mistakes she lived through: innocent mistakes, selfish mistakes, her mistakes, her first love's mistakes, and the compound mistakes they made together: both in and out of hospitals, both dealing with complicated psyches, perceptions of themselves and the world, and a growing love and dependency on each other.

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Kerima McLucas
Poetry/ Poetic memoir

You Remind Me of You is written by Eireann Corrigan, a bulimic teenager who nears death more than once in this poetic memoir. She describes her life, the difficulty of her eating disorder, her relationship with friends and the love of her life. Eireann remembers the tough love her boyfriend tried in order to force her to learn to eat again. She also speaks of the loss of a friend, another anorexia patient who quickly loses her battle to live. Eireann never real More...

I was drawn to this book for a number of reasons, one of which is that it's a memoir written in poetry. Now, before you think to yourself "No F(*&King way," know that the poems are very narrative and well-written. The rhythm that she creates and the way that poetry allows her to get at small but powerful bits of emotion are skillful. The book took me no more than 2 hours to read, but it was compelling and heartfelt.

The story is of a young woman who is anorexic and her relationship with a boy More...

This is the story of Corrigan's struggle with anorexia, her relationship with her boyfriend, and his struggles with depression. Upon first read, I loved it. The book combines three loves of mine: poetry, memoirs, and young adult literature. It was a gorgeous, fast, emotional read. But, the more I come back to it, the less impressed I am. Corrigan over-uses shock value. Her writing is occasionally heavy handed and her attempts at irony often fall flat. Crucial events are rehashed half a dozen tim More...

I haven't read very many memoirs, but I definitely feel that this story, and the telling of it, was more powerful because it was true. Had this been an attempt at fiction, I would have probably rated it a 3. The story didn't always flow very well. There were times when I was unsure of the chronology of the story and I was left at the end with questions I was unsure had been answered. Knowing that this is how that author felt most comfortable sharing this intensly personal story of her life made More...

I was obsessed with this book in high school. Not really sure why. I guess we all go through a phase where we love tragic stories of young women.

This Push series for teens is generally very good. This one is a poetry memoir of a girl who suffers from bulimia and tries to commit suicide.

This is a book that can be read in an hour or two. It took me a little longer only because I was reading a few others while reading this. It's about 120 pages, in verse and very, very easy to read.
I don't really know any adults I'd go out of my way to recommend it to but it's definitely a good book for younger people.
I liked reading it because I'm interested in subjects in the area of abuse and recovery, whether it be drugs or any other type of abuse. Eireann Corrigan had a problem with eating More...

I may have to revise my less-than-flattering view of books done in verse.

I'd had this one on my to-read list for a while, but had put it off because...well, I've read some verse novels done exceptionally well (Ellen Hopkins, anyone?) and some done...less well...and overall find them more miss than hit. But Corrigan had an essay in Does This Book Make Me Look Fat? (actually, Ellen Hopkins also had a story in verse in that book...), and when I closed the back cover of that book I turned straight t More...

While I usually enjoy books written in verse/poetry, this was not my favorite. I did enjoy the story, and I loved some of the individual poems. Overall, though, I found this book to be very confusing and forgettable.

This book's timeline was all over the place. I couldn't remember when Eireann was in high school or college, and it got really annoying to always be trying to figure it out. I was also really confused about all of her relationships. I just couldn't keep them straight, which happened More...

This was the first PUSH book I purchased, and it's been read so many times (at least once a year) that I now own two copies, the first held together with scotch tape. Since reading it the first time, I've become an avid PUSH fanatic and a big fan of poetry novels.

A memoir of some very troubled times, for some people this would probably be a really sad book. In fact my mother read it on my recommendation and couldn't at all relate. She thought it was really depressing. But that's not what I take More...

An important subject delivered through poetry. The form of the poems do not change, they remain line break throughout the work. The language is easy to follow and the text is a straight forward presentation of the facts and the situations which led to trouble.

The author retraces her journey of becoming a bulemic and the struggle to overcome problem. An important subject is covered while the writer is trying to fit into her adolscent world. The poems tell stories of teenage pain and recovery, no More...

I learned from awesome author Eireann Corrigan how insidious an eating disorder is...and how it affects everyone they come in contact with. In haunting free verse, Corrigan tells about her disease (how she hides regurgitated food in ziplock bags under her bed in a suitcase)and how her boyfriend tries to commit suicide and then how they both "try" to recover. I do admit it was confusing at times but I also feel that lets the reader know how out of control the victim is when they are in the grips More...

I decided to read this over again since it's so short to give it a more thoughtful review.

I never really care for these types of free verse poem books too much. It's a quick read, probably take you about 45 minutes to an hour if you sit down and read through it with no distractions.

I felt she talked too much about the dudes she was dating. Not enough about her family or her eating disorder or how it developed. It skipped big chunks of her life. It's not that descriptive and you don't get to know More...

I thought this book was very well written. It was so deep in emotion and very clear so that I could picture everything that was going on throughout the story. Her experience and that of her boyfriend's made me cry numerous times the first time I read it. I would reccommend this book to a selective group of my friends because this book is dark and covers a topic not well understood. Also this is a very detailed journey about Eireann's life so not all will like/apreciate the details.

A collection of poems about Eireann Corrigan's three years in and out of treatment facilities for her eating disorders. By the time she graduated high school, her doctors said she was going to die if things didn't change. That July, her high school boyfriend attempted suicide. She tells stories in poetic form. As one would expect from such dramatic events, there were some powerful moments in the book, but I thought the poetry was poor.

A good poetry book I would recommend to the young adults in your life. Very stark, honest, sometimes funny, sometimes very very sad. Ms. Corrigan's poems sometimes are overly flowery, angsty and a bit too navel-gazey for my taste, but what teenager isn't flowery, angsty and navel-gazey at times? Overall, a wonderful first book by a promising young talent. Would love to see more from this author as she grows and develops.

A beautifully written, sad memoir about a girl with an eating disorder whose boyfriend attempts suicide. I can imagine this was an extremely difficult book to write but Corrigan succeeds in portraying an honest yet not cliche story. It did take me a little longer than I thought to read this small book because Corrigan's writing is deep and thoughtful. I wouldn't breeze through this one or else you'll miss some beautifully crafted thoughts.

This book is a poetry memoir. It is about a girl that was Anorexic. She falls in love with a boy who also is going throughs similar problems later on he commits suicide. The tone of this book is Love. This girl is having to go through all this with a disorder she has been suffering from for over four years and she is also discovering true love.

I remember reading this on my train rides back and forth in high school. I wrote little notes and reactions on each page or doodled a broken heart or things that showed how i felt.

It made me FEEL and drew me in with out any attempt to seduce me. You'll feel like you knew this girl and it was YOU pouring through the story she lived.

I read it again recently and she reminded me of us.

This is a beautiful poetry memoir of a young woman's struggle with depression, eating disorders, and the general horror of being a teenage girl. It's written in a lovely style, and the poetry is beautifully suited to the fragile nature of the author's experience. A warning, though - it can be very hard to read.

A modern day real life and scary as hell romeo and juliet. Not so romantic when put into real life. Disturbing and captivating at the same time. Would like to know how it all ended but glad for the mystery of it too. Like how it was writen in poetry, made for a more mythical journey.

Beautifully crafted, and unlike any memoir I've read before. The poetry format forces the book to be both raw but at the same time lyrical. I could see myself giving this to a thoughtful, deep-thinking high school student and getting back rave reviews for the selection.

Sad sad memoir in poems about two teenagers dragging each other down, and possibly back up- it's hard to tell. It seems like Eireann learns that she is capable and competent by taking care of her boyfriend... but her voice seems so frail.