Stick Figure (edit title)

edited the books like this book of Stick Figure Saturday, September 26 2009.

• Added Perfect: A Novel This book is more fictional, but it's about a girl with bulimia, and it's from her point of view, so it provides a similar look at what people with eating disorders are thinking.
• marked the description of Perfect: A Novel as not a spoiler

edited the first sentence of Stick Figure Saturday, September 26 2009.

• First"First of all, I should probably tell you about me and school and stuff, so you'll get what I'm talking about when I write in you.you."

edited the summary of Stick Figure Saturday, September 26 2009.

• Lori Gottlieb started out as a normal girl. But women all around her were sending messages that girls should be worried about their weight. Her female friends and family members all seemed to be dieting, talking about their weight, worrying about how much they were eating. Plus, her parents were not very pleasant people. So really, what could have happened besides her becoming anorexic? Not much. The book is from her point of view, and she fails to see why everyone is so freaked out about her "diet", why the evil doctors want her to stay fat, and why women can diet, but not her. It's pretty interesting to get inside the head of an anorexic and see what's really going through their heads. This book is heavily based on the author's acual diary, so it really does show pretty much what a real anorexic was thinking, which I think is priceless.

edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of Stick Figure Saturday, September 26 2009.

• Added: The diary of a young girl with anorexia.

Shelfari edited the description of Stick Figure Friday, July 31 2009.

• When Lori Gottlieb was 11 years old, she did something girls that age often do: She started a diary. And like far too many other 11-year-old girls, she also began starving herself. Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self chronicles her transformation from a bright, healthy kid into a hospital patient on the verge of death, and it illustrates how a young girl can become convinced that anorexia is the answer to her preadolescent confusion. With an edgy wit and keenly observant eye, Stick Figure delivers an engrossing glimpse into the mind of a girl in transition to adulthood. Fortunately, the 11-year-old Lori recorded her journey to recovery in her diary, and her story is funny, slyly insightful, and surprisingly universal. An unflinchingly candid, bitingly funny debut, Stick Figure's compelling mix of irreverent humor, satire and autobiography offers dead-on observances about everything from mothers to the medical profession, gender roles to the absurdities of society's obsession with beauty. Martin Scorsese's company, DeFina/Cappa Productions, has purchased movie rights to Gottlieb's journal.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Stick Figure Friday, July 24 2009.

• Added a contributor: Lori Gottlieb: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Stick Figure Thursday, July 16 2009.

• First of all, I should probably tell you about me and school and stuff, so you'll get what I'm talking about when I write in you.