pickA moving fictional account of a Taiwanese American girl with disordered eating, told in comics format. The author‘s note at the end says she based this on her own experiences and that doesn‘t surprise me because it rings so true.
Images can carry so much that isn‘t in the text. In this scene, it‘s clear that a football player is giving Jordan an appreciative look, but in the next panel we see Jordan‘s friend Valerie thinking Jordan is sadly delusional. That no football player would look twice at Jordan because she‘s fat. Valerie can‘t see what‘s right in front of her, including the fact that she herself has disordered eating.
Remember, don‘t eat, just taste.
[Her mother‘s instructions are about not eating her own birthday cake.]
Val faces her own fears following her dad's death.
Aw, this made me a bit teary. The kindness of strangers. Someone made a similar gesture when I was in the last days of editing and thinking I'd never submit.
Back on track with the Scarathon Photo challenge- and a new pal for Archibald my Skelefriend! Meet my new fave little ghostly ornament. Unnamed as of yet but SO super cute.
Not yet finished with the tagged book- but so far really good and touching.
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pick4 ⭐ I didn‘t read up on this book before I started it. I saw the girl with the skeleton chest and the flowers and thought this book was right up my alley. I had no idea going in that I would see portions of my own life. In this book we follow the main character Val as she comes to term with her disordered eating and how her family, particularly her mom affected this. Valerie is bulimic, she throws up almost everything she eats. ⬇
Hungry Ghost | 
