That is the question.
Suprise to most, I did indeed read. Originally, I figured I was probably gonna read a chapter in Magyk and pretty much call it good enough, as it was pretty hard to stick my head into a book on the DC trip, since there was enough going on just being on the coach, but apparently that didn't happen.
The reason why:
There was a Barnes And Noble in Baltimore.
I BOUGHT a book.
I READ the book.
...That is a feat in itself right there.
Anyway, the book I read is a NYT bestseller called Skinny by Ibi Kaslik. It was a very intense book about this college girl, Giselle, and her teenage track star sister, Holly, and their perspectives that alternate with each chapter.
Pretty much Giselle, despite being in medical school to be a doctor and is, like...super smart and knowledgable in the medical field, she's anorexic. She always has mental battles with herself that are highly self-destructing that were caused by her dead father, who pretty much hated her when she was a child because he didn't accept her for who she was, and the anorexia is her way of trying to seek acceptance.
Holly, on the other hand, despite being really close with their father, is going through mental turmoil as well. She's a very rebellious child that believes she can see their father's ghost as ways to cope wih her sister's mental and physical deterioration.
Simply put, after a ton of events, Giselle eventually goes to the hospital, getting to a point where she weighs seventy-eight pounds, she escapes from the hospital, Holly finds her and takes her back to the hospital, and Giselle dies anyway.
...Great story.
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Time Read over Break: 4hrs, 52min
Total Time Read: 35 hrs, 22min
Total Books Read: 4
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