Unbearable Lightness

Unbearable Lightness
Portia de Rossi

De Rossi's book is also very good, but a tough read as I have gone through it myself so it is very, very real to me. It is hard to remember those feelings and obsession. I would not recommend it to anyone still suffering from Anorexia or bulimia because it can be very triggering, but it is very useful for family or friends to try to begin to understand the horrible disease. It can become such an obsession and it is extremely hard to overcome. It is also very useful for anyone who works with teens to help recognize the possible symptoms or behaviours.  Although it is impossible for someone who has never had an eating disorder to fully understand, de Rossi's book does give a very detailed and honest look into her struggles with her disease.

Kobo

I finally broke down and bought a new Kobo reader. I really enjoy reading from it. I realize that there is no satisfaction of "turning the page" but I actually find it easier to concentrate than regular books. This also means that I can read far more books at once! I am currently reading Wanda Sykes'  "Yeah, I said it" and Portia de Rossi's "Unbearable Lightness".  I love Wanda Sykes, so that is usually the one that I read first.

Final Management 'Paper'

Okay, this one is a better version because the music actually syncs up now!

Interesting article

Here is an interesting article about the importance of editing to ensure confidence in the work from the New York Times...

http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/after-deadline/?scp=1-spot&sq=after+deadline&st=cse

Specials by Scott Westerfeld

“Tally thought they were a rumour, but now she’s one of them. A Special. A super-amped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid.”

With classes and essays finally done for the semester I finally got a chance to read the third book in the Uglies series – the Specials. This book definitely lives up to my expectations based on the first two books, and made it very difficult to put it down.

Paranormal is the New Normal: Generation Dead by Daniel Waters

How would you feel if you went to school with zombies, or to be politically correct, the “differently biotic”? In Generation Dead, there is a new phenomenon where sometimes teenagers who died don’t really go away but remain as the undead. Just like living teenagers, they still go to school, but they don’t eat, their organs don’t work, and their brains take longer to process information. As such, they face significant discrimination in the high-school. With the gap between the living and the differently biotic, it is socially forbidden for a living girl to date a zombie, but Phoebe Kendall finds herself attracted to Tommy Williams, one of the differently biotic teens. Can true love break the barriers between the living and the dead?

YA Material Review - The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill

Hill, L. (2007). The Book of Negroes. Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

 “Pink is taken as the colour of innocence, the colour of childhood, but as it spills across the water in the light of the dying sun, do not fall into its pretty path. There, right underneath, lies a bottomless graveyard of children, mothers and men. I shudder to imagine all the Africans rocking in the deep... Some people call the sunset a creation of extraordinary beauty, and proof of God's existence. But what benevolent force would bewitch the human spirit by choosing pink to light the path of a slave vessel?” 

– The Book of Negroes, page 7