by Bea
Posted on June 6, 2009 at 12:29 am

I basically agree with you on your review of “Wintergirls.” The fonts and strikethroughs of despair were grating. I did like Lia’s interactions with her parents and stepsister. I liked that she was drowning under the weight of her illness and that she clearly had OTHER mental health issues concurrent with her anorexia.

Overall, compelling enough to keep me reading, but not a keeper. I don’t want to be That Jerk, but I haven’t found any of Anderson’s later efforts as awesome as “Speak.”

by Amy
Posted on June 6, 2009 at 9:57 pm

I feel better now that I know (in print, no less) that I’m not the only person bothered by the typography (and by the underlying assumption that without the typography, I wouldn’t “get” the novel). I did like the family interaction, too, and thought that really, the whole book could be about just that. It’s kind of like that TV show, “Medium,” where the real pleasure is found not in the mysteries, but in watching the family interact.