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Wintergirls – Laurie Halse Anderson
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From School Library Journal
Starred Review. Grade 8 Up—The intensity of emotion and vivid language here are more reminiscent of Anderson’s Speak (Farrar, 1999) than any of her other works. Lia and Cassie had been best friends since elementary school, and each developed her own style of eating disorder that leads to disaster. Now 18, they are no longer friends. Despite their estrangement, Cassie calls Lia 33 times on the night of her death, and Lia never answers. As events play out, Lia’s guilt, her need to be thin, and her fight for acceptance unravel in an almost poetic stream of consciousness in this startlingly crisp and pitch-perfect first-person narrative. The text is rich with words still legible but crossed out, the judicious use of italics, and tiny font-size refrains reflecting her distorted internal logic. All of the usual answers of specialized treatment centers, therapy, and monitoring of weight and food fail to prevail while Lia’s cleverness holds sway. What happens to her in the end is much less the point than traveling with her on her agonizing journey of inexplicable pain and her attempt to make some sense of her life.—Carol A. Edwards, Denver Public Library
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Sexy Magazine Covers and then some
The images below are all from magazines that you can purchase at any age. These are NOT adult magazines. This is the face of society.
Esquire: a candidate for knighthood
FHM
Hey Jennifer…
W Magazine. W, for Woman?
From the pages of GQ
Vanity Fair – two naked women and one successful man….
Ever wonder why Playboy’s climax was in the 70′s?
Just your average magazines, like FHM, Maxim, Vanity Fair…..
Make-up in Pictures
Apply it, brush it, blush it, rouge it, squeeze it, gloss it, shine it…
Make-up
Someone told me to check out Vogue so I did. The odd thing about the message is that it came from someone telling me how stupid I was for thinking skinny is pretty – it really made me wonder if people read, and then I remembered that most people don’t. No wonder we have so much violence in the world.
While stumbling through Vogue and it’s layers of tangy sweet I came across an article about a women teaching her 8 year old daughter how to apply lipstick. When did you start putting on make-up? I think about the things people say when they see adults with too much, and I doubt any 8 or 10 year old knows enough restraint to keep it looking natural. Just an odd combination from a guys perspective anyway.
Here’s the Vogue Article.
So, being the guy that I am I decided to go learn a little more about make-up. I mean, this is not one of those things you sit around with your dad talking about before prom as a guy. It was interesting to find that in a few simple steps, you could apply make-up properly and look beautiful! I suppose it’s like painting a landscape. Anyone can take a paint brush and paint some rolling hills and a sunset. As to making it look good? Well, here are 10 easy steps.
It seems like the basics are simple. You have to start with a clean slate, like a canvas or some dough, and then you can paint, cake, and sculpt from there. It’s a lot like a Geisha – or maybe a Geisha is meant to remain a clean pallet upon which fantasies are built.
Do you have a make-up story? or anything to share?
