The General Awsomeness of Free Reading

No, I'm not talking about a library (although those are rather useful) but nonrequired, uncensored bliss. Yes, the joys of free reading: read whenever you want, choose what book you wnat, and when you finish it. Not that some of us actually want the book to end when it does....

So, anyways, this week, I continued my random rereading of Harry Potter. I don't think there's much left in the last two books or the first three, so soon I will devour The Order of the Phoenix and The Goblet of Fire (Fleur got a job at Gringotts to "eemproove her eenglish"- that's about how much I've read of the fifth one last night) and am very exited to do so. Thenwe all have to wait till July (curse you, stupid movie franchise!) for the series to be officially complete.
I have difficulty imagining that- the one thing that kept getting updated as I grew up is almost over. *sigh* It makes me feel so old. And that's saying something.

Other than Harry Potter, this week I indulged myself in Laurie Halse Anderson's latest book, Wintergirls. WARNING: THIS SECTION CONTAINS MANY SPOILERS.
It's about Lia, a teenager who was anorexic, and her best friend, Cassie (who was bulimic), just died (they'd been friends since second grade, but the last few months they'd ignored each other), who had called Lia thirty-three times the night she died, because she didn't want to die alone. Lia becomes increasingly anorexic, making it under 90 pounds. Lia meets Elijah, the boy who found Cassie at the motel where he works, and found out that Cassie told him to tell her that (direct quote) "I lost, and she won", "she" being Lia and "I" being Cassie. when she cuts herself too deep to take away the pain that she's trying to ignore from her hallucinations of Cassie's ghost, and winds up being found by her little stepsister, almost dead. At that point, Lia is about 86 pounds. There's lots of twists and turns and background stories. (Spoiler Alert over.)
I really liked this book and would recommend it.  It starts off confusing, and you start to see Lia's guilt as the story progresses.

"Tonks goes by her surname only," (Lupin?)
"You would, if your idiot mother decided to call you Nymphadora," -Tonks
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"The new Defence Against The Dark Arts teacher is about as nice as your mum," -Harry in a letter to Sirius
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The quotes above are taken from Harry Potter And The Order of the Phoenix (Year Five At Hogwarts) by J.K. Rowling.
Have a great week and hang in there! Only two more weeks til Christmas Vacation <3

-Jenni