Your friends are embarrassing, Lia. (Skinned by Robin Wasserman)

Lee is on page 159 of 368

I find myself frustrated that Lia keeps trying to be friends with these obvious losers. But more than that, I’m embarrassed for her that she was ever friends with these people pre-accident!

I’m also completely done with “Zo Zo”. Seriously. And the boyfriend gets more annoying as time goes on. (Actually, the more Lia recalls, the less I think they had a good relationship pre-accident anyway.)

I’m just going to sit back and wait for her to start being friends with Auden like she’s obviously meant to do.

Teaser Tuesday: February 28, 2017

Like when everything flipped upside down and the scream of metal on metal exploded the silence and the world churned around me, ground over sky over ground over sky, and then, with a thunderous crack and a crunching of glass and steel,  a twisted roof crushing me into a gutted floor, ground, I wasn’t surprised.

– Robin Wasserman, Skinned (Cold Awakening, book 1), pages 10-11

Version:
Hardcover, 368 pages
Published September 9th 2008 by Simon Pulse


Welcome to Teaser Tuesday, hosted by Ambrosia at The Purple Booker, the weekly Meme that wants you to add books to your TBR, or just share what you are currently reading. It is very easy to play along:

  • Grab your current read
  • Open to a random page
  • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
  • BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
  • Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers! Everyone loves Teaser Tuesday.

Message to Robin Wasserman (author of ‘Skinned’)

I am reading your novel ‘Skinned’ and got to the passage where Lia’s dad tells her “Arbeit macht frei” and then when she learns that it is a Nazi saying from the Holocaust days says “Statute of limitations on grudges expires after a hundred years.”

I was just curious whether you personally believe that after enough time has passed people no longer have a right to be angry at the actions of the Nazi Party?

This is not intended as a leading question or anything like that, I just couldn’t shake my curiosity and I appreciate the time you’ve taken to read this.

I eagerly await your response,
Lee


I sent this to Robin Wasserman on Goodreads because while reading Skinned I noticed the main character’s father seemed somewhat racist (talked about here).

I couldn’t shake the nagging curiosity over whether this statute of limitations was something the author truly believed in. I don’t expect a response, but I had to at least ask.

I know from Wasserman’s twitter she doesn’t seem to be racist, in fact she often uses her twitter to call out racism. My question is specifically about whether she believes there is a “statute of limitation on grudges” in terms of racism. I wasn’t able to find a time when she specifically addressed that line. If anyone has seen something of that kind, I would appreciate a link.

#SorryAboutYourRacistDad (Skinned by Robin Wasserman)

Lee is on page 9 of 368

Hate to break it to you Lia, but your dad is a racist.

You already told us your parents specifically paid for daughters with Aryan features, your dad quotes Nazi phrases from his ancestral home of Germany, he says things like “Statute of limitations on grudges expires after a hundred years” (about the Holocaust) and gets your teacher fired for telling you about the aforementioned Holocaust.

#SorryAboutYourRacistDad

Thursday Quotables: February 23, 2017

This weekly feature is the place to highlight a great quote, line, or passage discovered during your reading each week; whether it’s something funny, startling, gut-wrenching, or just really beautifully written.


As last days go, mine sucked. The last day I would have chosen — the last day I deserved — would have involved more chocolate.

Summary:

The Download was supposed to change the world. It was supposed to mean the end of aging, the end of death, the birth of a new humanity. But it wasn’t supposed to happen to someone like Lia Kahn.

And it wasn’t supposed to ruin her life.

Lia knows she should be grateful she didn’t die in the accident. The Download saved her–but it also changed her, forever. She can deal with being a freak. She can deal with the fear in her parents’ eyes and the way her boyfriend flinches at her touch. But she can’t deal with what she knows, deep down, every time she forces herself to look in the mirror: She’s not the same person she used to be.

Maybe she’s not even a person at all.


Thank you Bookshelf Fantasies for this fun book meme!