Book Review: Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

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Book Review: Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

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The writing style is very very gripping and fragmented, and overall stylistic to the character’s state of mind. It’s real, raw, gruesome, and most of all relatable. My experience reading this book was like holding in a big breath of air and then finally releasing it. It feels painful and exhilarating at once. I love that this book wasn’t focused on a romance. It was focused solely on the main character Lia and her relationship with food, her parents, death, therapy, recovery, and her deceased best friend. I would not recommend reading this book if one is susceptible to being triggered by anorexia and eating disorder in general. Read at caution. But this book is for sure worth the read.

“Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.” 

“In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Be honest to those you love, show your pain. To suffer is as human as to breathe.” 

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