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Original Title:	Skinny
ISBN:	0802796087 (ISBN13: 9780802796080)
Edition Language:	English

Skinny

Ibi Kaslik

Hardcover | Pages: 244 pages

Rating: 3.44 | 6067 Users | 494 Reviews

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Do you ever get hungry?  Too hungry to eat?
 
Holly's older sister, Giselle, is self-destructing. Haunted by her love-deprived relationship with her late father, this once strong role model and medical student is gripped by anorexia. Holly, a track star, struggles to keep her own life in balance while coping with the mental and physical deterioration of her beloved sister. Together, they can feel themselves slipping and are holding on for dear life.
 
This honest look at the special bond between sisters is told from the perspective of both girls, as they alternate narrating each chapter.  Gritty and often wryly funny, Skinny explores family relationships, love, pain, and the hunger for acceptance that drives all of us.

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Title	:	Skinny
Author	:	Ibi Kaslik
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 244 pages
Published	:	September 19th 2006 by Walker & Co (first published April 17th 2004)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Fiction. Mental Health. Mental Illness. Health

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Ratings: 3.44 From 6067 Users | 494 Reviews

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I first read Skinny several years ago when I was in high school, and I remembered liking it then so I decided to give it another read. Unfortunately, like many books I enjoyed in high school, I enjoyed it less as an adult. I really enjoy sisters and do think the book does a great job of exploring the relationship between Holly and Giselle. Those two characters are amazing, and rightfully the focus of the book.Unfortunately, the book does have a few downfalls. The first, in my opinion, is Sol.

Have you ever seen a reflection of yourself and fought to recognize the person staring back at you? Have you ever let yourself slip so far into the darkness that you thought there would be no way for you to propel yourself out? The inability to function, to care, what brings a person back from that?This book isn't all rainbows and sunshine. I respect it for that. The story of Giselle's anorexia wasn't necessarily familiar to me, and at first I struggled to see any reality in it. It must be so

The writing was okay but my main problem with the book was that I couldn't really get a clear picture of anything. There was always this sense of detachment between the characters and their story from the outside world. It's hard to place their lives in the context of the rest of the world, and for a long time I didn't even know where they were. I don't know what they looked like, and I seriously can't picture much of anything. Some scenes also seemed like they were included just for angst -

3.5Chaotic writing and unexpected flashbacks made this book a bit hard for understanding, but I really liked the plot and idea which author had brought up. Such an important issue as Anorexia should be talked much more about. And I totally agree, that various diseases, mental and physical problems cause damages not only to you, but also to people who love you.

very small interesting differences when you realize that this in set in canada, and that the medical system is different there. two sisters tell the story - gizelle and holly, daughters of first generation hungarian immigrants. a tale of how people deal with trauma, adolescence and being different, close to everything i know in this strange way. (at one point, gizzy is looking at potatoes and thinking how much better they would be with sour cream and butter - oh, eastern european food!) the

Skinny is sad in a subtly haunting way. The passages from the medical-school guide really emphasized Giselle's mortality and complemented her muted, though persistent, voice. *SPOILERS* I commend the author for her willingness to experiment with character death, because I've always felt that too many eating disorder novels end with la-di-da, Disney-ending recovery or even "life is not perfect, but I'm getting there day by day" recovery. Statistics say that eating disorders this serious rarely

I picked up Skinny at the bookstore because the writing style didnt seem awful, which is often the case with YA reads these days. Youve got to hunt for the gems amidst the junk. I am an avid YA fan and love the well-written novels in the genre. That being said, what seemed like a promising read turned out to be a messy, tangent-prone dud. There were redeeming moments in the book, but the author had too much going on to accomplish the mission at hand. At the end of the book I was left with a sort