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Title: You Remind Me of You: A Poetry Memoir (Push Poetry) by Eireann Corrigan ISBN: 0-439-29771-0 Publisher: Push Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.48 (25 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Honest and Powerful
Comment: I am not, in general, a big fan of free-verse poetry; most that I've read is pretentious and disappointing. In this memoir, however, Eireann Corrigan shows how powerful and wonderful the form can be. With the honesty of firsthand experience driving the words, the poetry breaks free of the all-too-common trap of self-importance. The book seems to uncannily bypass conscious response and transmit its messages directly to the deepest, most vulnerable regions of the reader's soul.
At first the prospect of reading 123 pages of short poems about a woman's struggles with anorexia and bulimia might seem daunting, or even tiresome, but You Remind Me Of You quickly does away with any such apprehensions. The poems do not, as might be expected (or feared), retread the same piece of ground. Instead, they map that area so delicately and traverse it so carefully that no syllable seems extraneous. Corrigan explores facets of the experience that I would never have even known existed -- ways in which she affected others, others affected her, she affected herself, or others affected one another.
The author pulls no punches in relating her experiences, and the effect is unlike anything I've ever experienced. I am a rather cynical reader, not given to exaggerated emotional response. This book, however, brought tears to my eyes -- not tears of admiration or artistic appreciation so much as tears of sorrow at understanding (in some small, vicarious way) the experiences she had. More than that, I was physically affected by the reading: my breaths came as irregular gasps; my limbs and digits quivered; my throat became dry; my heart pumped furiously. This is a raw book, and although its scope is perhaps somewhat narrower than those of other raw books (about, say, war or epidemics), its power is undeniable. I recommend it, and urge all readers to take the time to focus on it and allow its effects to be fully felt, for then it will be at its best.
Rating: 5
Summary: real, and sad
Comment: You Remind Me of You by.Eireann Corrigan was a book about a girl who is mixed up in love to the point where she puts her own life in danger. She is has a very low self-esteem because of her boyfriend Daniel thought she was too fat. Having eating disorders was her solution to this problem. Her insecurity led her to being curious and eventually experimenting sexual things. She also made other careless choices such as trying drugs. I think the author's intentions for writing this book were to show teens how eating disorders have an effect your life in many ways. Also I think she was trying to put out the message not to always jump to conclusions about yourself just by what others think of you. You as an individual have to stand on your ground and keep your own opinion about yourself. I recommend this book to any teenager mature enough to read it because this is a very real and powerful story of a girl taking small footsteps through her walk of life.
Rating: 5
Summary: I went to school with Eireann Corrigan
Comment: from 4th grade through middle school and knew her reasonably well. She is stunningly talented, and that is understating it. She was an accomplished flutist, a die-hard Hoya fan, and 100% dedicated to her writing. I purchased this book last year and could not put it down - she's been through hell and back, and shares it in such a haunting, beautiful way. I cannot wait to read anything and everything else she publishes.
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Title: Cut by Patricia McCormick ISBN: 0439324599 Publisher: Push Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Kerosene by Chris Wooding ISBN: 043909013X Publisher: Push Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Pure Sunshine by Brian James ISBN: 0439279895 Publisher: Push Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Kim: Empty Inside: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager by Beatrice Sparks ISBN: 0380814609 Publisher: Avon Books Pub. Date: 16 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Smack by Melvin Burgess ISBN: 0380732238 Publisher: HarperTempest Pub. Date: 04 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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