Diary of an Anorexic Girl | 
| Author: Morgan Menzie
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 71523
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 192
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.6 x 0.5
ISBN: 0849944058
UPC: 023755021519
EAN: 9780849944055
ASIN: 0849944058
Publication Date: April 16, 2003
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Product Description
Morgan Menzie takes readers through a harrowing but ultimately hopeful and inspiring account of her eating disorder. Her amazing story is told through the journals she kept during her daily struggle with this addiction and disease. Her triumphs and tragedies all unfold together in this beautiful story of God's grace. Features include: daily eating schedule, journal entries, prayers to God, poems, and what she wished she knew at the time. It's the true story of victory over a disease that is killing America's youth.
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 Amazing Insight August 7, 2003
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
This book provided amazing insight into the life of a girl struggling with an eating disorder. It not only allows the reader to gain understanding of the complicated issues that are part of an eating disorder, but also portrays the other aspects of the girl's life and how they are affected.
What makes this book truly enjoyable to read, however, is the witty style and the clever prose with which is was written. The young girl's comically melodramatic personality and wisdom beyond her years shine's through in each journal entry.
Through the pages, Morgan Menzie materializes and leads the reader through a tearful,yet laughter-filled journey of her adolescence. This book is definitely one of those books where the reader sits down and reads until she is finished, and even then is somewhat saddened to have reached the last page.
As honest as STICK FIGURE: A DIARY OF MY FORMER SELF March 20, 2004
15 out of 18 found this review helpful
After reading Lori Gottlieb's STICK FIGURE: A DIARY OF MY FORMER SELF, I didn't think I'd find another collection of diaries that spoke about anorexia with such honesty and compassion. I've struggled with anorexia, and both books (STICK FIGURE and this one) have been by my bedside because I find it helpful and comforting to read parts of them over and over. I strongly recommend both books for not just anorexics, but for families and friends who truly want to understand the experience and what they can do to help.
Good For Both Adults and Teens April 16, 2003
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
Although the book is fictional, it is based on the wuthor's real-life experiences. This makes it more realistic than quite a lot of fictional books. The story is written in the style of a diary, from the point of view of Blythe. At the outset, she is 13, but gradually gets older as the book progresses. It is set in America. I don't want to give too much away about the plot, but Blythe's problems begin when she starts to compete with Laurie, another girl in her year who has anorexia. It spirals from there. I would recommend this book to both teenagers and adults as it's very good for an afternoon's reading. It's not too heavy, either.
Frank approach of what it's like to live with an ED August 12, 2004
Fruit Loop (Down South)
14 out of 26 found this review helpful
A painful, honest account of a real anorexic's struggle with the disease that should be read by parents of eating disordered children and their therapists. I highly recommend it, especially for the frightening number of young women who are "wannabe" anorexics. THIS IS WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU, AND IT ISN'T WORTH IT.
Talk About Real!!! April 21, 2006
S. Wright
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
Morgan Menzie's book was the first diary of an eating disorder I read, and is the reason why I continue to read more ED books. She unlike many ED authors talked about things other that just her eating disorder, such as relationships with friends, family and boyfriends. It's not a book that's all about anorexia but does emphasize more so than other subjects in her diary.
In her book, I believe she cover about mmm... three or four years, I really can't remember. Anyway it's a long period of time. One thing that she does that annoys the heck out of me is that she'll skip a whole month of entries but I guess that's the author's way of cutting out insignificant things.
Basically a girl named Blythe, which I think maybe be her middle name, becomes anorexic in middle school because of a friend. On of her friends begins to loose weight and Blythe decides she wants to loose to. But it goes beyond loosing weight it becomes a desire for thinness, and a fear of food.
Another thing I love about this book is Morgan keeps it so real. She said one of the- the truest thing EVER published about our human ways. It's on page 49 and is the...um... 4th paragraph I believe since the book is copy written I don't want to post it without permission. But what she says in that paragraph is so overwhelmingly true that I had to put down the book and think about my life. Although what she says is completely irrelevant to her eating disorder I couldn't write this review without reference to that paragraph.
Would I recommend it? Heck yeah! To anyone, even if you're not anorexic or never have been, even if you think the disease is stupid, anyone should get this book. Recoverees, havebeens, thinking about its and neverwillbees, get the book. You'll understand what it's like to have the disease for this one girl and may have a whole new outlook on anorexia.
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