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Nichts leichter als das
Weil "tote Mädchen keinen Abschluss machen", wird die 17-jährige Marty kurz vor dem Examen in eine Klinik eingewiesen. Zwei Jahre lang hat sie sich fast zu Tode gehungert, denn das ist das Einzige, was sie kontrollieren kann: ob sie isst oder nicht. Allem anderen in ihrem Leben - dem Alkoholproblem ihrer Mutter, der Zurückweisung durch den Vater, den Ansprüchen ihres Freun...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
February 2009
by Carlsen
(first published October 1st 2003)
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Jul 24, 2012
Anna Francesca
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3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
young-adult,
autobiography
(Note: This is categorized as a novel but says on the back cover that is is semi-autobiographical. It seems, based on some of the details of the text, to be more reality than fiction but told with artistic license).
This fell into the genre of books about the experience inside a psychiatric hospital (such as Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen, Impulse by Ellen Hopkins, and Cut by Patricia McCormick, to name a few). Maybe I’ve just read too many books on the topic and have tired of it, or maybe i...more
This fell into the genre of books about the experience inside a psychiatric hospital (such as Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen, Impulse by Ellen Hopkins, and Cut by Patricia McCormick, to name a few). Maybe I’ve just read too many books on the topic and have tired of it, or maybe i...more
Ich habe Nichts leichter als das wirklich gern gelesen. Es hat einen sehr flüssigen Schreibstil und die Kapitel sind kurz und episodenartig. Außerdem finde ich das Thema Essstörung immer wieder interessant.
Dennoch ist das Buch alles andere als perfekt. Ich vermute manches liegt an der deutschen Übersetzung. Einige Dialoge kamen mir nicht stimmig vor, sie wirkten gestelzt oder übertrieben jugendlich. Charaktere haben ab und zu Sachen erzählt, die mir als Leser zwar mehr Informationen gegeben habe...more
Dennoch ist das Buch alles andere als perfekt. Ich vermute manches liegt an der deutschen Übersetzung. Einige Dialoge kamen mir nicht stimmig vor, sie wirkten gestelzt oder übertrieben jugendlich. Charaktere haben ab und zu Sachen erzählt, die mir als Leser zwar mehr Informationen gegeben habe...more
Jul 21, 2010
Tara
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
favorites,
eating-disorder
An anorexic, or a bulemic, the author never did get around to saying what, exactly she was. But it was what I'd wanted to read, and I most ceretainly enjoyed reading it. It was the first book to make me cry in months. I loved the way Marty was so sarcastic, she seemed more real than alot of the charaters in books i have read lately.
But Lily, poor, poor Lily. She was by far the sadddest part to the book.
I laughed, I cried, I'm glad I read the book.
But Lily, poor, poor Lily. She was by far the sadddest part to the book.
I laughed, I cried, I'm glad I read the book.
This book is about a girl who likes to cook so she enrolls in a cooking contest. the drama kicks in when she is practicing what plates she is giong to put in her menu. She is really worried because some of the other contestants are good she goes on and wins the contest. It would be more interesting if they talked about her background a little bit and say that maybe she stole the recipes from another contestant.
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Awesome book!
To check out my review on my blog, here it is: http://feistylittlewoman.wordpress.co...
Welcome to Silver Lake Hospital.
The alcoholics are sobering up.
The druggies are getting clean.
The crazies can have all the drugs they want.
The bulimics wish they had more food.
The anorexics have all the food they need, but they would rather starve.
In the eating disorder unit, one of the inmates is smart-mouthed, unapologetic, yet broken, Marty Black.
In More Than You Can Chew, we learn that Marty’...more
To check out my review on my blog, here it is: http://feistylittlewoman.wordpress.co...
Welcome to Silver Lake Hospital.
The alcoholics are sobering up.
The druggies are getting clean.
The crazies can have all the drugs they want.
The bulimics wish they had more food.
The anorexics have all the food they need, but they would rather starve.
In the eating disorder unit, one of the inmates is smart-mouthed, unapologetic, yet broken, Marty Black.
In More Than You Can Chew, we learn that Marty’...more
More Than You Can Chew is a poignant book of battles and freedom. Marty wishes she could go back home, but that’s impossible when she has an eating disorder and is taken to a clinic till she recovers, her mother is an alcoholic, and her father doesn’t seem to care about her. In the clinic, Marty begins her journey to recover from her eating disorder, and begins bonding with the other girls there, and Marty begins to realize maybe she does want to get better, but can she break from her disorder a...more
This book gave me an inside look at the mind of an anorexic. It really opens your eyes to the severity of the situation and how important it is to get help, but it also opens your eyes to the institution's idea of helping them.
This book is about a girl with anorexic who's being sent to a camp where the nurses took away all her diet food and pills. However, she wasn't alone and eating food was a problem for these people with anorexic. Having to reject eating food made the nurse force them to eat by using tubes and drinking liquid food instead. Also, the main character's mom is still trying to help her daughter by bringing all the paper work to graduate high school but "dead girls don't graduate." Teenagers of many kind...more
More Than You Can Chew is one of the best eating disorder books I've read before. Its real. Its not fake. It doesn't sugar coat anything like some other books do.
anorexia through the eyes of a teenager - very disturbing, but insightful and well written.
Pretty much the best book about eating disorders,
it's got enough drama to keep you reading until it's done.
I really liked it. I wonder why it's not on more lists...
it's got enough drama to keep you reading until it's done.
I really liked it. I wonder why it's not on more lists...
An OK look at rehab, but not triggery enough to be a good anorexia novel.
This book is really good and I think it's going to help me with my assignment!
I'm such a sucker for a good problem novel....
This triggered me but helped me as well :)
This book was one of those books that brings out emotion. You laugh out loud at some things, but want to cry at so many points.
This novel was the author's semi-autobiographical work on being in recovery for an eating disorder. It kept my interest, but it wasn't a particularly original take on eating disorders. Two characters were pivotal to the story; an 8 year old suffering from anorexia, as well as a young man, both on the brink of death. This helped to move the stereotype away from teenage girls.
I'm gonna read the rest of it as soon as I've finished "The Jane Austen Book Club".
This was an excellent book about a girl who has issues with food who is taken from school and put into a special section at the hospital. Part autobographical, this is a moving story that helps people undertand eating disorders.
Dec 27, 2012
Stacey Lucky
rated it
2 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
ed-books,
read-in-2012
This was one of those books that no Matter how many pages I read it still felt like I was getting no where!! The comic relief is the only reason I'm giving it 2 stars.
Really powerful book about eating disorders. Almost but now quite as good as Hunger Point which deals with the same issues.
Jan 06, 2008
Shawni
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
People who would like to learn more about eating disorders
I have re-read this book so many times and I absolutely love it. There is something about it that just seems so very real.
One of the shortlisted titles for the CLA Young Adult Book Award in 2004.
One of The Best books I've ever read!!!
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