Waiting On Wednesday, January 28

Better late than never, it's not Wednesday anymore but I am still eagerly waiting on Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson, the author of Speak. It sounds like it will be a deeply emotional and moving book. And also, brilliant cover art. Love love love the cover. Great design. *Swoon!*

From Amazon:

“Dead girl walking,” the boys say in the halls.
“Tell us your secret,” the girls whisper, one toilet to another.
I am that girl.
I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through.
I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.

Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the skinniest. But what comes after size zero and size double-zero? When Cassie succumbs to the demons within, Lia feels she is being haunted by her friend’s restless spirit.

In her most emotionally wrenching, lyrically written book since the multiple-award-winning Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson explores Lia’s descent into the powerful vortex of anorexia, and her painful path toward recovery.

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson will be released on 19th March 2009. So... are you waiting on anything?