Friday, October 23, 2015
Monday, October 19, 2015
Elena Vanishing
This is a Cybils book, but the opinion expressed in this review is just mine, and not the committee's.
Elena Vanishing: A Memoir Elena Dunkle and Clare B. Dunkle
It opens with Elena in a hospital in Germany, not sure why her chest hurts so much. She's then medically evacuated to the US, to be treated for anorexia. She next years are a tangle in and out of treatment as everyone watches Elena slip away while she insists she's fine.
This is co-written with her mother, who is a novelist, and it was that story-telling sensibility. Part of that is we are in Elena's head for the entire time, and not Elena-looking-back, but Elena-then, so... holy unreliable narrator Batman. It's a pretty warped (albeit fascinating) perspective.
One thing I would have liked is something on what was "really" happening during all of this, because Elena's POV is so divorced from reality. (of course, I could just read her mother's memoir of the same time, Hope and Other Luxuries: A Mother's Life with a Daughter's Anorexia)
It's painful and hard to read, but also hard to put down.
Book Provided by... my local library
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Elena Vanishing: A Memoir Elena Dunkle and Clare B. DunkleIt opens with Elena in a hospital in Germany, not sure why her chest hurts so much. She's then medically evacuated to the US, to be treated for anorexia. She next years are a tangle in and out of treatment as everyone watches Elena slip away while she insists she's fine.
This is co-written with her mother, who is a novelist, and it was that story-telling sensibility. Part of that is we are in Elena's head for the entire time, and not Elena-looking-back, but Elena-then, so... holy unreliable narrator Batman. It's a pretty warped (albeit fascinating) perspective.
One thing I would have liked is something on what was "really" happening during all of this, because Elena's POV is so divorced from reality. (of course, I could just read her mother's memoir of the same time, Hope and Other Luxuries: A Mother's Life with a Daughter's Anorexia)
It's painful and hard to read, but also hard to put down.
Book Provided by... my local library
Links to Amazon are an affiliate link. You can help support Biblio File by purchasing any item (not just the one linked to!) through these links. Read my full disclosure statement.
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Monday, October 12, 2015
Tuesday, October 06, 2015
Cybils Nominations--What to Nominate!
Cybils Nominations are Open!
There haven't been that many nominations yet in YA Nonfiction, and we need some more books to read so that we can pick the best ones!
When I was preparing for the Cybils, I started looking around to see what books had gotten stars or a lot of good review so I could start placing my holds and gathering up potential nominees.
Are you still looking for something to nominate? Here's a list of things that I found that would be a good nominee, but no one's nominated yet:
Fuel Under Fire: Petroleum and Its Perils by Margaret J. Goldstein
Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark by Deborah Hopkinson
The Untold History of the United States, Volume 1: Young Readers Edition, 1898-1945 by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, adapted by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Speaking OUT: Queer Youth in Focus
The Boys in the Boat: The True Story of an American Team's Epic Journey to Win Gold at the 1936 Olympics (Young Readers Adaptation) by Daniel James Brown
Also, on Sunday, Jean Little Library posted a long list of possible nominations--all of her suggestions for YA Nonfiction are still waiting to be nominated!
Anyone can nominate! If you're reading this YOU CAN NOMINATE. Go do it.
Links to Amazon are an affiliate link. You can help support Biblio File by purchasing any item (not just the one linked to!) through these links. Read my full disclosure statement.
There haven't been that many nominations yet in YA Nonfiction, and we need some more books to read so that we can pick the best ones!
When I was preparing for the Cybils, I started looking around to see what books had gotten stars or a lot of good review so I could start placing my holds and gathering up potential nominees.
Are you still looking for something to nominate? Here's a list of things that I found that would be a good nominee, but no one's nominated yet:
Fuel Under Fire: Petroleum and Its Perils by Margaret J. Goldstein
Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark by Deborah Hopkinson
The Untold History of the United States, Volume 1: Young Readers Edition, 1898-1945 by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, adapted by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Speaking OUT: Queer Youth in Focus
The Boys in the Boat: The True Story of an American Team's Epic Journey to Win Gold at the 1936 Olympics (Young Readers Adaptation) by Daniel James Brown
Also, on Sunday, Jean Little Library posted a long list of possible nominations--all of her suggestions for YA Nonfiction are still waiting to be nominated!
Anyone can nominate! If you're reading this YOU CAN NOMINATE. Go do it.
Links to Amazon are an affiliate link. You can help support Biblio File by purchasing any item (not just the one linked to!) through these links. Read my full disclosure statement.
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