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Teaser Tuesdays:  Wintergirls Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB @ Should Be Reading . Here are the rules: grab whatever you're reading, open to a random page, select no more than two sentence (NO SPOILERS), share the title and author, and GO Here's today's: "Here stands a girl clutching a knife.  There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry words piled in the corners.  We are trained not to see it, not to see any of it. ...body found in a motel room, alone... Someone just ripped off my eyelids" --page 3-4            ----- Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson This is the second book I've read by Anderson; so far, so good. Happy reading!    

"It seems to me that it's only since around 1970 that the concept of diet and exercise has existed in the way it does now, which is based on exertion and restriction being the key to weight loss, and yet since then, we have seen an increase in obesity in countries that have adopted it.  (These are also the countries where the fast-food industry boomed during that time.)  The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a little of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we can barely afford." (302) ~ Portia de Rossi It's interesting, but I've never really thought about dieting as an industry as the above except from Portia de Rossi's memoir, Unbearable Lightness:  A Story of Loss and Gain , declares it to be.  And, honestly, I have to say that I agree with her.  There are so many different fad diets out there that claim you...