Okay this book was awful. It was SO BAD. A complete shame to all books. ESPECIALLY books about eating disorders. If you're going to write about things like this you HAVE to make it good. It's an expectation you must, must meet. And this book failed oh so miserably. First off t was so so boring. J...
Alone in my room—strange that I already think of it as mine—I pull out my notebook, ready to write down more about what I’ve learned about Kensington, but instead I find myself writing in it as though it’s a diary, about my frustration at not having found anything, that I can’t say the words “Joh...
KNOPF NEW YORK THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coi...
I think wearing all black would be presumptuous of me; that should be reserved for family members. I will wear gray or navy, and only a little black. I don’t even know whether this is my first funeral. I imagine my two-year-old self at my father’s funeral, sitting on some willing grandparent’s la...
I know Eden will do better than I will. Chemistry. I know Stevie will do better than I will. And American literature. I’ll do the best in that one. Since all that is predetermined, what difference does my studying or not make?The thing is that I don’t think I know how to study anymore. I know wha...