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Summary: Excellent one-day reader!
Review: My sister was reading this book, and the strange title perked my interest. It was the kind of thing were I read the back, investigated the cover, scanned the first page, and was completely engulfed for the rest of the day.The story begins in the hospital. It is written in first person, occasionally flashing to third person. It flashes from the story, to Anna's thoughts, to conversation, to flashbacks. It's not confusing, because it follows an obvious line of thought. The way it's written is an intreiging look into the head of a 17 year-old girl. The story follows Anna from the hospital home. It describes the mental and physical effects of the accident as it affects Anna, her friends, her family. The characters are so realistic psychologically, it's facinating. I love reading, and I loved this book. My sister hates reading, and she's enjoying it. I read it in a day and couldn't put it down. She pulling through the first few chapters after a week, and isn't giving up. I'm excited about this book because it's so true, so painfully real. There's no miracle, no happy ending. When things get better, then can get worse, and in such a pathos (my english teacher would kill me if i called it a tragedy) nobody ever comes out perfectly. This book deals with relationships, romantic, friend, and family relationships. It deals with self-image, self-worth, with self. It's philosophical as well and factual and real. The author knows what she's talking about, she was a psychologist before her near-fatal car accident... I enjoyed this book very much. It's a real, honest dose of life, it all it's pain and ugliness as well as beauty. Young readers will relate to the main character, and readers of all ages will gain a new perception of their world. Really, read this book. As Anna grows into a real person, you will grow too. I guarentee you will come out of this book looking at the world in a different light.
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Summary: Peeling the Onion is a great book
Review: Peeling the Onion is a book that every teenager should read. This is a heartfelt story about a girl who gets into a life changing car accident, learning how to cope with her problems and finding out who her true friends are. Wendy Orr, the author of this amazing, moving story has the characters well developed making it feel like you know them yourself. This story will have you on the edge of your seat, laughing and crying with every page that you turn.
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Summary: Wendy Orr on the writing of Peeling the Onion
Review: Peeling the Onion is actually my 21st book, although my first truly young adult novel(Leaving it to You, A Light in Space- Mindblowing! in Australia - and Dirtbikes, being for ages 11-14, and the others picture books or junior novels). I often say that I'm not sure what sparks the idea for a story, but in this case it was very obvious: six years ago I was seriously injured in a car accident. Eventually I had to accept that total recovery was impossible, and that my life had changed forever: the resulting sense of disorientation and loss of identity was horrific. Being a writer, it soon became obvious that I would have to write about it - and write about it in fiction, where I could explore the essence of the grief itself. Partly because of my gratitude that it was me, rather than my children, who were injured, I chose to make Anna 17 - on the threshold of of independence, sexuality and adult identity. Her personality, reactions and relationships are entirely fictitious: sometimes quite different from mine
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Summary: "Peeling the Onion"
Review: Peeling the Onion was not that fascinating to me.In the story, the fictional characters were unappealing to me. The character personalities that the author chose for them are excessively dull. For example, I feel that Anna is more worried about her old boyfriend kissing her than anything else. I feel that is absolutely ridiculous. Throughout the story Anna was annoying to me, because I didn't like that she was more concerned about her love life than she was about her injuries. In my perspective I would want to become better. Another example is Luke. It appears Luke is waiting for Anna to break up with her boyfriend so that he can say he loves her. I think the book would become exciting if Luke told her he loved her at first. The book becomes lifeless without any action.
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Summary: Peeling the Onion
Review: This book is one of the best books I have ever read!!!! The author (Wendy Orr) has managed to make every detail come alive by using her past expriences. This book is unsuitable for anyone under the age of 13 due to some feelings and language used. It's a great book for adults as well! Don't believe me??? Read it and see!
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Summary: One of the BEST books ever!!
Review: This book reavealed things about myself and the character. The character's (Anna) life is shattered by a car crash, which starts out the story intriguingly. Anna keeps having flashbacks, which give you more and more information of what happened. Until you know all the details, you will be very curious of what really happened. The title of the book actually portrays what is happening to Anna, as she is slowly being exposed. Her relationship with her boyfriend is failing, and she finds someone who lights up her life (though she is still going out with the othr boy). The book showed how after something terrible happens you have to go all the way to the bottom of the pit to start climbing back up, and that is just what Anna does. Anna faces many terrible things, including: a smashed thumb, two injured feet, a broken vertebrae in the neck, missing more than half of hear 12th year in school, and much more. But you'll just have to read it to find out the rest by reading this wonderful book.
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Summary: Peeling the Onion
Review: This book was amazing. It shows that most teenagers can be living the perfect life but suddenly it was altered by a traumatic accident. It takes you from her karate match, to the ambulance, to the hospital and home. She finds that the one you think you love can betray you with that accident. The book takes you into her thoughts and what she's actually doing. This book was AMAZING!
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Summary: this book was excellent
Review: This book was excellent! It wasn't one of those books that didn't get good until the end. What I'm trying to say is that it got straight to the point. This book is about a 17 year old girl who gets into a car accident and who is now trying to recover from a broken neck. Anna is a very athletic girl. She had just won first place in a karate tournament. While Anna is in the hospital many things are running through her head like..."Would instant death from a severed spinal cord have been luckier than a broken neck?" "Am I ever going to be able to do karate again?" While Anna is in the hospital she feels like her life is disappearing. I like this book alot. It teaches us to wear our seatbelts and to live our life day by day. What I liked about this book was that the reading was easy and, it was just a fun book to read.
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Summary: A TRUELY GOOD STORY
Review: this book was not well written. you find yourself lost as it goes from one day to the next in a matter of seconds. The story line was good though i injoyed reading this book.it makes me thank god that im not in this girls place
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Summary: Extremely well written...
Review: This is truely a gem! It's very realistic and beautrifully crafted to illustrate the horrors, griefs, and triumphs after a serious car accident. Anna deals with the possiblity of not grauating highschool with her friends, not having the dream job of a physical instructer, not fully recovering, and possibly loosing her boyfriend because of his self-blame and self-pity. It is a fast progressing novel, and doesn't leave you hanging at the end.
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