Skinny
by Ibi Kaslik
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Reviewed by Allison M. Rotonda for TeensReadToo.com
Giselle is an intelligent, over-achieving medical student who is self-destructive and tormented by her relationship with her dead father. Holly is a blossoming young track star that struggles academically for several reasons, including the fact that she is hearing impaired. Giselle has been hospitalized and forced to return home to recover from anorexia. SKINNY tells the story of the effects of Giselle's illness on these two sisters now that...more
Giselle is an intelligent, over-achieving medical student who is self-destructive and tormented by her relationship with her dead father. Holly is a blossoming young track star that struggles academically for several reasons, including the fact that she is hearing impaired. Giselle has been hospitalized and forced to return home to recover from anorexia. SKINNY tells the story of the effects of Giselle's illness on these two sisters now that...more
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Read in March, 2008
<u>Skinny<u> was about two sisters, Giselle and Holly, struggling to keep themselves together. Giselle was a med student and a role model to Holly. Her love-deprived relationship with her late father fuels her battle with anorexia. Holly is a natural born athlete; she runs track, plays basketball and just about every other sport there is out there. She's also deaf in one ear. The book has two distinct voices: Giselle and Holly. This style of writing reveals parts of the story t...more
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Read in April, 2008
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The book Skinny was a painful book to read. Painful because its depressing and tragic. When I first picked it up, and read the back, I thought 'a book about a girl with bulimia... must have a good ending.' I thougtht 'a book about bulimia would be an easy book to review, because I could say I learned alot on the eating disorder.' However, after reading this book, I feel greatly disturbed and am overwhelmed with sadness.
The story is told in the voices of two sisters. Both these gir...more
The story is told in the voices of two sisters. Both these gir...more
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Read in August, 2007
this is the story of giselle and her sister holly, daughters of hungarian immigrants to canada- the story of the parents also gets uncovered as the story goes along. giselle is a med student, taking a break after a year because of her dangerous struggle with anorexia. holly is a runner, a basketball player, naturally slender, their late father's favorite.
the writing is gorgeous and i love the characters. i'm withholding a couple of stars because it was just so astonishingly depressing, and ...more
the writing is gorgeous and i love the characters. i'm withholding a couple of stars because it was just so astonishingly depressing, and ...more
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Read in February, 2008
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Helenrecommends it for: fans of "problem" YA fiction, eating disorders, family issues
This was very well-written. There were times when I thought the prose was too heavy-handed, especially in Giselle's sections, but I figured that was in tune with what she was feeling at the time. It was great to see two separate, distinct voices that still had the similarities you'd expect from two sisters.
The family relationships are drawn extremely well, although at the end it became somewhat muddled. In a literal sense, I'm not sure how the story ends.
I don't like the emphasis on t...more
The family relationships are drawn extremely well, although at the end it became somewhat muddled. In a literal sense, I'm not sure how the story ends.
I don't like the emphasis on t...more
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Read in February, 2008
I liked this book but I just felt like there were a few under-developed key themes in the book. Central to the story (aside from her eating disorder) was her relationship with her father and the family history that supposedly was at it's core. I felt like this wasn't developed fully -- I never really was drawn into the "truth" of the failings of the father-daughter dynamic. Also, the liaison between her younger sister and Sol really puzzled me; once again, not a fully developed storyl...more
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"While I craved attention, I was terrified of letting someone else into my imperfect, hateful world. It was me, and only me, who could control my cravings; denying myself food was proof that I was stronger, better than most people. But I was lonely for touch. Still, my own stiff regimen of stripping myself to the core and forcing myself to turn away from those curious eyes made me feel proud, if alienated; I was trading my new-found power of flesh for something more trustworthy, something p
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Read in January, 2008
Beauty tinged with death or death tinged with beauty. Can't decide.
There was blood in this book. Literally, I think.
It was really well-written. My only complaint is that there were WAY too many mini-plotlines (I guess that's realistic, like life) and the story was therefore confusing in that a lot was being vaguely implied.
Definitely a unique book, not one where I could say, Oh, it's just like that one where etc....
There was blood in this book. Literally, I think.
It was really well-written. My only complaint is that there were WAY too many mini-plotlines (I guess that's realistic, like life) and the story was therefore confusing in that a lot was being vaguely implied.
Definitely a unique book, not one where I could say, Oh, it's just like that one where etc....
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Read in January, 2008
I am always on the hunt for books about topics that effect teens. This one I didn't finish because although I wanted to read more about eating disorders and how they effect teens, this book challenged one of my core values and it had a lot of language from the get go. Too bad, because initially it caught my attention as an interesting read.
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I was impressed by this first-novel, but the ending left me feeling almost too-resolved or something, too aged...but I did "learn" that it's possible to be an esa grad and published author...and Ibi Kaslik and I both read the same copy of a Virginia Woolf novel from the esa library---so that alone took the cake!!
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I read about 1/4 of it and was just not interested. It's weird how ED memoirs/nonfiction are a guilty pleasure but I can never get into the fiction. The book is fine, just not interesting to me.
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Read in August, 2005
very good and also disturbing. I liked the unique profile of an anorexic, addled girl. Very stark imagery, but also descriptions you've never heard before. Seemed very human to me... lent it to my sister, and she find it too scary.
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Read in November, 2007
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This book was pretty good. It was kind of confusing at times because it switches points of view after each chapter. Overall it was a pretty good book, about a girl who has a eating disorder and how the problems she encounters.
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Read in February, 2008
This book jumped around too much for my liking, it was good story line, but it would have been better if there wasn't that much jumping, you had to read atleast a page to know who was talking in each chapter...
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Interesting Read with alternating chapters written by 2 sisters facing their different life experiences. Tragic & geared for an older audience than the "young adult" the author lists.
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I have a sort of fascination with the world of eating disorders and the way they shape the mind.
This book was not a disappointment.
I loved every second of it.
This book was not a disappointment.
I loved every second of it.
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This book didn't really hold my interest long enough to finish it... then again, maybe I did finish it and I just don't remember because it was so boring.
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This book was really good. It was alternating narrators told by two sisters. One of the sisters was battling bulimea...very powerful and a page turner.
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Read in August, 2007
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i was abit confused when i read this book
so u kinda have to take ur time and read
but i think i just raced through it
so u kinda have to take ur time and read
but i think i just raced through it
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