https://padlet.com/amelliott1/384vmby4wg6g Made with ♥ en-us 2016-10-17 16:17:22 UTC 2024-05-27 23:59:07 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Clouds.png amelliott1 https://padlet.com/amelliott1/384vmby4wg6g/wish/131209460 Published: 2016

 Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she’s already lost more than most people do in a lifetime. But she’s learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don’t have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you. 
   Every new scar hardens Charlie’s heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts enough to not care anymore, which is sometimes what has to happen before you can find your way back from the edge. 
  A deeply moving portrait of a girl in a world that owes her nothing, and has taken so much, and the journey she undergoes to put herself back together. Kathleen Glasgow's debut is heartbreakingly real and unflinchingly honest. It’s a story you won’t be able to look away from.]]> 2016-10-17 16:22:45 UTC https://padlet.com/amelliott1/384vmby4wg6g/wish/131209460 amelliott1 https://padlet.com/amelliott1/384vmby4wg6g/wish/131212017 I chose this book because it seems to be something that will stick with me much longer than most. A book that will cause me to think about my life as I'm reading. I also feel like I connect better with sad books and I think this might be one of the saddest books I've ever read.
 ]]> 2016-10-17 16:27:37 UTC https://padlet.com/amelliott1/384vmby4wg6g/wish/131212017 amelliott1 https://padlet.com/amelliott1/384vmby4wg6g/wish/131341168 Abigail Elliott is 15 years old and was born in Boise, Idaho. She has lived in Idaho for the last 15 years with her triplet siblings, parents and her adorable dog, Stanley. She loves animals, science and reading and is always in the mood to be outside. She hopes to be performing autopsies one day or at least have a job in the medical field, but is open to what the future holds.]]> 2016-10-18 01:13:49 UTC https://padlet.com/amelliott1/384vmby4wg6g/wish/131341168 amelliott1 https://padlet.com/amelliott1/384vmby4wg6g/wish/132548396 sorry
out. get it out. cut it all out.
this will teach you.
nobody cares.
erase me.
that's what was in my head in the attic when i took the broken piece of glass
and began to cut myself into tiny pieces 
i tried so hard to die
please don't leave us Charlotte]]> 2016-10-23 16:03:05 UTC https://padlet.com/amelliott1/384vmby4wg6g/wish/132548396 amelliott1 https://padlet.com/amelliott1/384vmby4wg6g/wish/134090478 "Blue pins those wet eyes on me and takes a deep breath. 'The moral of the story, Charlie, is this: Don't let the cereal eat you. It's only a f***ing box of cereal, but it will eat you alive if you let it"' (Glasgow 94).
This is said to Charlie shortly before she has to leave the mental home and take on the real world once. By hearing this, Charlie realizes that the world that has taken so much from her and she is now so terrified of doesn't have to be feared. It's up to her.

"I'm so happy and so scared and so confused I don't know what to do" (Glasgow 99).
Charlie realizes that leaving and going to 
Arizona can separate her from her past and she can start again, but with that comes a lot of emotion.

"Mikey" (Glasgow 107)
This is the boy who is helping, this is the boy Charlie loves and connects Charlie to her old best friend and her past.]]> 2016-10-30 16:20:13 UTC https://padlet.com/amelliott1/384vmby4wg6g/wish/134090478 amelliott1 https://padlet.com/amelliott1/384vmby4wg6g/wish/135840191 "Clean" by Taylor Swift
I chose this song because at this point in the book Charlie is beginning to let go of her past and that is what this song focuses on. The artist of the song wrote this to express how she is clean from the past and starting again, just like Charlie is doing in Tusan.]]> 2016-11-07 16:40:34 UTC https://padlet.com/amelliott1/384vmby4wg6g/wish/135840191 amelliott1 https://padlet.com/amelliott1/384vmby4wg6g/wish/135970674 I have a job, I have my own place and Mikey is finally with me, but he has a f****** girlfriend. An angelic, unscarred girlfriend. I was so stupid to think that a normal person would like someone as messed up as me. So much of me wants to open my tender kit, but Casper's words tug at the back of my mind. And what about Riley, I can't help but remember the warm feeling I get and the way I feel like he understands me. I need to take things slowly. Please don't mess things up this time Charlie.]]> 2016-11-08 00:18:25 UTC https://padlet.com/amelliott1/384vmby4wg6g/wish/135970674 amelliott1 https://padlet.com/amelliott1/384vmby4wg6g/wish/138795196 I chose the M*A*S*H t-shirt Riley gave to Charlie as my symbol for this section of the book because I think it is a turning point for Charlie. Riley finally convinces her it is ok to show her scars in public, something she has been too terrified to do for months. Later on though, this comes to hurt her when her manager says she can not show her arms, in the case that she might be triggering customers. Charlie questions herself and thinks about returning to old habits, but fortunately does not.]]> 2016-11-18 18:26:01 UTC https://padlet.com/amelliott1/384vmby4wg6g/wish/138795196 amelliott1 https://padlet.com/amelliott1/384vmby4wg6g/wish/140075830 "...and now I'm going to have my work on the walls, for people to see. Me. 'Nope,' I tell him. 'I'm not afraid of work at all'" (Glasgow 297).

This is the moment Charlie realizes that although she's been spending so much time with Riley, she knows it's not good for her, and covering up her feelings won't last forever. So she turns to art once again, except maybe this time it will go somewhere.]]> 2016-11-28 02:54:38 UTC https://padlet.com/amelliott1/384vmby4wg6g/wish/140075830 amelliott1 https://padlet.com/amelliott1/384vmby4wg6g/wish/141908960 2016-12-06 00:34:51 UTC https://padlet.com/amelliott1/384vmby4wg6g/wish/141908960