Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Various Positions by Martha Schabas

So I thought the cover was cute and I love me a good ballet book so I grabbed this Advance Reader's Edition to read on the plane ride home yesterday. Whoa....did I misjudge it.  Honestly, I felt physically ill as I read this book.

Georgia is only fourteen, immature, and immersed in the world of ballet.  She jumps at the chance to join a Canadian ballet school and escape her house, where her mom is slowly going crazy and her dad is constantly absent. She's innocent, but her actions in the book just don't match her innocence.  She basically gives a friend the instructions on how to be anorexic and she's obsessed with sex.  And anything about sex. She watches it on the internet and wants to figure out why men want younger girls.  I mean, she was basically looking up child porn on her computer! I know teens are obsessed with sex, but Georgia's fascination with her ballet teacher is just plain disgusting.  This is one of those cases where the teen is the manipulator, but it seems to be okay! Okay, I could go on and on.  After reading this, I think....Georgia had to have been molested as a child, because her attitude toward sex and men is just messed up!

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