My Big Nose And Other Natural Disasters - Plot & Excerpts
She practically vibrated with excitement about my desire to try yoga as my newfound passion. She'd been into yoga since she first got diagnosed with scoliosis. "It saved me, Jory. All that teasing, you know. I totally found myself with yoga. You will learn to love your body." I held my sticky blue mat from the free-for-you-to-use basket and wondered when it had last been cleaned. Who had sweated all over this thing? People, mostly old people, in comfy yoga pants and snug tops wandered into the room. I wore my stupid RHS gym shorts and a baggy Monterey Bay Aquarium T-shirt with a whale wrapping around the back of it. I felt kind of like a whale. One small bowl of Mom's Cabbage Soup Diet concoction had packed me with so much gas that I could probably float. "So, you're being evasive." Hannah stretched her arms above her head. "Do you like that guy with the big nose or what?" "Gideon. He has a name, you know." I hate it when people describe someone as having a big nose. Freshman year I had a major argument with Megan over Barbra Streisand's nose.
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