Here stands a girl named Lori, 11 years old with a disease called anorexia. Her mother eats on diets; here friends eat on diets; and every girl at her school are on diets except for her. Her mother reads all of these books on diets and is always telling her, "Save the dessert for your father and brother. You don't need all of this food." And of course this poor little girl kept wondering why. A little while later her family went over to some relative's house to have nice meal with them. Lori sat next to her cousin Kate. Lori thought Kate's legs were so skinny and wondered how Kate kept her nice figure. Then Lori looked down at her legs; she thought, boy they look humongous. They are so wide and fat. Then she looked how much food Kate took on her plate; there was barely anything. Lori then she looked at hers; there was so much. After that Lori started not eating breakfast and saying that she didn't feel like eating. It started growing in to a bigger deal with her parents about her not eating. Lori had lost so much weight over the past couple months, so her mother started getting concerned so she took Lori to the doctor. She had lost at least two pounds in just a week or two. After telling the doctor that she wasn't eating breakfast and starting not to eat much of anything, he wanted to see her the next week. When Lori came in the next week she had lost even more weight. That's when Lori's doctor said she needed to talk to a counselor about what was going on. And boy, Lori wasn't happy about that. The first day of going to see her new consoler was weird. He asked her to draw a picture of herself and how she thinks she looks and then to draw another picture what she wants to look like. Lori drew a stick figure. Then after she drew those pictures Lori played chess with her counselor. Just plain old chess. Lori started buying diet books and reading how many calories were in food because she thought she was so fat. Then she started doing laps in the night to burn calories and then foot lifts. After a couple of weeks Lori's family, doctor and counselor thought it would be best if she was to be hospitalized. She had to be watched when eating her food and had to eat 75% of her food, otherwise she would have to have a tube down her throat to feed her if she didn't. She had her life at a risk. Would Maria be in the hospital the rest of her life? Would she start eating and get out of the hospital and recover? Or would she die in the hospital because she wouldn't eat anything? If you want to know read the book and find out!
I thought the authors writing style was okay. It was in a journal form and the book showed how much she was going through. She kept explaining how she was feeling in the moment. But one thing was that the book wasn't very descriptive. It would tell some things descriptively but not that many.
I really enjoyed reading this book. It was so attaching. You wanted to know what was going to happen next. The chapters aren't very long so you can read quite a bit in just a half hour. I really recommend reading this book. It teaches you a lesson that being thin isn't that good, and going on diets can be dangerous. I hope you read this book!

Lori Gottlieb is a girl who thinks that no one understands her; and she's right. Whenever Lori's mother has friends over, her big brother David would wow the grown ups with his intelligence and humor. But then when Lori would try to say something she was thinking, the friends would just say, "Oh she's such a unique girl, isn't she?" Lori didn't get what was so unique about her. After that, she learned not to say anything she thought, or to say anything at all from the grown ups around her. Just to be invisible.
Another thing she didn't get was how little women ate. Her mother would always dump everything that was on her plate onto either her father's or David's plate. Lori noticed how she ate like `the men in the house' do, while her mother read magazines about losing weight that had skinny models and `beautiful' people. Lori was a naturally thin girl; but after her mother always asking why Lori wasn't like the girls in the soap operas she watched;her learning about no guy liking `thunder thighs'; or that you can never be `too rich or too thin', Lori started to read diet books and making herself a diet.
The only thing she wished was to be the skinniest person on earth. Even though Lori did not understand why each book said silly things like, "drink three full glasses of water before a meal so then you won't be so hungry", she decided to diet like a woman. At first she was very dizzy from not eating anything, but she got used to it. She started counting the calories in her head of everything she inhaled and took a bite of like crazy; and she became more and more skinny: just what she wanted.
Her parents did not like the idea of her eating eight glasses of water and only eating two-hundred and fifty calories a day, so they got her a shrink named Dr. Gold that drove Lori crazy because "he was always nodding his head at everything I said even if it wasn't necessary". He and Lori's doctor, Dr. Katz would always tell her that she is too skinny and needs to eat. Lori thought they were just saying that because her family put them up to it, so she kept doing the diet because she didn't want to be fat anymore. She kept losing weight, and Dr. Katz kept thinking of ways to make her eat more, but each one didn't work. Finally, Lori's family had an "emergency meeting" at Dr. Gold's office and her mom, dad, and brother agreed to send Lori to the hospital, even though she did not understand why.
In the hospital, she met a couple people who she became close to such as Nora, another sick girl down the hall; and Elizabeth, a nurse that cared about her(finally, someone who seems to). This book is filled with the thoughts of an eleven year old girl who is oblivious to the fact that the women in magazines are not real, and she is confused by the country around her and the definition of the word "skinny".
This book has a great resolution because you actually feel like you're finishing this book with a purpose and a moral. At first to me the book was very slow and boring and I thought I was going to never finish it. Then when things started moving, I was hooked. I liked reading this book from the character's point of view because you knew what she was thinking, and you understood why she was anorexic. If this book wasn't written in first person, you'd think the whole story was just about a little girl who was anorexic because no one understood her. But it is more than that, because you can actually get what she is talking about, and how some people never even hear of anorexia when they're doing it to themselves. Some people don't even know what they're doing, and Lori didn't. She just wanted to be skinny. I think it's fascinating that Lori Gottlieb is a real woman, and it actually happened to her and she made the character someone you could relate to. This book really opened my eyes as you can see, and I hope that you enjoy it if you read it as well. I think everyone should read this book to understand why some

Here stands a girl named Lori, 11 years old with a disease called anorexia. Here mother eats on diets; here friends eat on diets; and every girl at her school are on diets except for her. Here mother reads all of these diet books and is always telling her, "Save the dessert for your father and brother. You don't need all of this food." And of course this poor little girl kept wondering why. A little while later her family went over to some relative's house to eat some dinner. Lori sat next to her cousin Kate. Lori thought Kate looked so skinny. Then Lori looked down at her legs. She thought, boy they look humongous. They are so wide and fat. Know wonder my mom tells me not to eat so much. Then she looked how much food Kate took on her plate. There was barely anything. And then she looked at hers; there was so much. After that Lori started not eating breakfast and saying that she didn't feel like eating. Then it started growing in to a bigger deal with her parents. Lori had lost so much weight over the past couple months. Her mother started getting worried so she took Lori to the doctor. She had lost at least two pounds. After telling the doctor that she wasn't eating breakfast and starting not to eat much of anything he wanted to see her the next week. When she came in the next week she had lost even more than two pounds. That's when Lori's doctor said she needed to talk to a counselor. And boy Maria wasn't happy about that. The first day of going to see her new consoler was weird. He asked her to draw a picture of herself and how she thinks she looks and then draw another picture what she wants to look like. Lori drew a stick figure. Then after she drew those pictures Lori played chess with her counselor. Just plain old chess. That's kind of weird. Lori started buying diet books and reading how many calories were in food because she thought she was so fat. Then she started doing laps in the night to burn calories and then foot lifts. After a couple of weeks Lori's family and doctor and counselor thought it would be best if she was to be hospitalized. She had to be watched when eating her food and had to eat 75% of her food, otherwise she would have to have a tube down her throat to feed her if she didn't. She had her life at a risk. Would Maria be in the hospital the rest of her life? Would she start eating and get out of the hospital and recover? Or would she die in the hospital because she wouldn't eat anything. If you want to know read the book and find out!
I thought the authors writing style was okay. It was in a journal form and the book showed how much she was going through. She kept explaining how she kept feeling in the moment. But one thing was that the book wasn't very descriptive. It would tell some things descriptively but not all.
I really enjoyed reading this book. It was so attaching. You wanted to know what was going to happen next. The chapters aren't very long so you can read quite a bit in just a half hour. I really recommend reading this book. It teaches you a lesson that being thin isn't that good, and going on diets can be dangerous. I hope you read this book!

The book I read is called Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self. Lori Gottlieb who is telling her own true story in the form of her childhood diary. This book is about the true horrors that come with anorexia and the pain it sets on your family and you. She really explains everything she was going through even things you might not want to know, but it just compels you to read more. Lori really is very good at putting everything together, that happened to her and recalling back all her images from when she was younger in her diary into the book. I really have to say I enjoyed this book and it really helped me learn that you are perfect the way you are and you shouldn't be influenced by others negative comments. That is why I have to give this book 5 stars.

When you were a kid did you ever think that you needed to go on a diet? Hopefully you didn't. This book talks about how much trouble an 11-year-old girl can get into when she goes on a diet.

Wanting to be the skinniest girl in class got Lori in trouble. She allowed her self-only 400 calories a day, when the average kid eats around 2,000 calories a day. When she went to see her doctor, Dr. Katz for a checkup he told her that she had to drink three glasses of whole milk a day which she didn't want to do. If she drank one cup of whole milk, then she couldn't eat anything until the next day. She made diet plans for her and her bird Chrissy, and soon for the most popular girls in her class. She drank eight tall glasses of water a day because water has no calories, and thought that she could take in calories if she smelled food. So whenever a person would breath on her, she would always hold in her breath.

Finally, her parents decided that she needed to go to the hospital, and she was there for around a month. At one point she could see the two bones in her legs and many other bones. You will have to wait and find out how she does.




I really like the authors writing style because she is very descriptive and the story is very intriguing.

I gave this book four out of five stars, because sometimes there was a lot of information thrown at you at once and at other times there wasn't very much information. This is one of my favorite books I have read.

This book is an Auto Biography.