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4.42 AVERAGE
4.42 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
fast-paced
#YA #memoir
Very sad autobiographical look at an eating disorder and the difficulty and slow circuitous route of recovery. The illustrations are excellent with immense depth.
I'm just a little concerned about who the target audience would be as I'd worry about putting it in just any teen girls hands given the incidence of imitation.
Very sad autobiographical look at an eating disorder and the difficulty and slow circuitous route of recovery. The illustrations are excellent with immense depth.
I'm just a little concerned about who the target audience would be as I'd worry about putting it in just any teen girls hands given the incidence of imitation.
Warning: this book involves mentions and visual moments of SA(sexual assault), ED(eating disorder), nudity, overdosing, suicide, and depression.
The graphic novel is a close walk-through of the author, Katie Green's life. It touches on many difficult subjects that Katie has experienced. I got very emotional from beginning to end. Though I have never had an ED, other subjects she touched on resignated with me. Many of her feelings are valid, and many other individuals go through certain situations just like hers. Through her drawings, you can feel how she felt throughout her life. The scribbles she draws represent the suffocation of her illness and thoughts that I understand and know too well from experiences in my life. It felt very personal, as though she was telling me herself about her experiences. The book is hard to read because of these events and topics and I did have to take a break midway through. I recommend this Graphic Novel but also would recommend taking time away if it feels like too much.
The graphic novel is a close walk-through of the author, Katie Green's life. It touches on many difficult subjects that Katie has experienced. I got very emotional from beginning to end. Though I have never had an ED, other subjects she touched on resignated with me. Many of her feelings are valid, and many other individuals go through certain situations just like hers. Through her drawings, you can feel how she felt throughout her life. The scribbles she draws represent the suffocation of her illness and thoughts that I understand and know too well from experiences in my life. It felt very personal, as though she was telling me herself about her experiences. The book is hard to read because of these events and topics and I did have to take a break midway through. I recommend this Graphic Novel but also would recommend taking time away if it feels like too much.
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.5 STARS!!!!!!!
I feel that this was a beautiful story. I really do. But at a certain point, it seemed to become just that. A story. Less of a memoir about coping with anorexia, PTSD, sexual assault, body dysmorphia, and eating disorders in general, and more about it just being over. There are things that, as a fellow sufferer of some of these things, I feel needed to be gone into more. I don’t want to spoil it, because I feel that this book has enough good in it to be helpful. But it there were things that bothered me.
For instance, the recovery process didn’t have enough time on the page. We got snippets, but I really think it would have been better to spend more time with the counseling, with the inner battles, with the successes, with the hurdles. It seems towards the end like magic happened and all of a sudden Katie was coping. I’m almost certain there was more to it than that, and there would certainly be more to it for anyone else that had these problems. I felt almost like most of her road to recovery was glossed over and basically was a couple of sessions, a talk with a friend, and romance.
I liked Katie. But I also wanted to slap her on occasion. The complete lack of respect for her parents is realistic, yes, because she was a teenager. But did she ever apologize for her treatment? Did she ever tell them everything? Did she ever open up? She was blessed to have a family that desperately wanted to help her and care for her and see her succeed. Did she ever really acknowledge that? There are so many of these things that detract from what could have been a heartbreaking and heartwarming memoir about overcoming severe mental, emotional, and physical problems.
Overall, it was decent, and could help someone as long as their major problem is self criticism and anger. But I feel like it could have been great. It could have changed the whole conversation, as opposed to, in the end, just being another side of it.
I feel that this was a beautiful story. I really do. But at a certain point, it seemed to become just that. A story. Less of a memoir about coping with anorexia, PTSD, sexual assault, body dysmorphia, and eating disorders in general, and more about it just being over. There are things that, as a fellow sufferer of some of these things, I feel needed to be gone into more. I don’t want to spoil it, because I feel that this book has enough good in it to be helpful. But it there were things that bothered me.
For instance, the recovery process didn’t have enough time on the page. We got snippets, but I really think it would have been better to spend more time with the counseling, with the inner battles, with the successes, with the hurdles. It seems towards the end like magic happened and all of a sudden Katie was coping. I’m almost certain there was more to it than that, and there would certainly be more to it for anyone else that had these problems. I felt almost like most of her road to recovery was glossed over and basically was a couple of sessions, a talk with a friend, and romance.
I liked Katie. But I also wanted to slap her on occasion. The complete lack of respect for her parents is realistic, yes, because she was a teenager. But did she ever apologize for her treatment? Did she ever tell them everything? Did she ever open up? She was blessed to have a family that desperately wanted to help her and care for her and see her succeed. Did she ever really acknowledge that? There are so many of these things that detract from what could have been a heartbreaking and heartwarming memoir about overcoming severe mental, emotional, and physical problems.
Overall, it was decent, and could help someone as long as their major problem is self criticism and anger. But I feel like it could have been great. It could have changed the whole conversation, as opposed to, in the end, just being another side of it.
dark
emotional
slow-paced
dark
emotional
informative
sad
slow-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
Fantastic window into a very deep struggle. Very heavy and raw book though.
Wow- incredibly raw and honest, but also so well-honed and sharp. A really vulnerable graphic novel- I'm glad it exists out there!