Blade Silver: Color Me Scarred

I don't feel quite right putting this book on my “read” shelf as I didn't finish it, but oh well. I only got about three chapters in before I just couldn't read anymore. This book seemed more like a how-to on cutting yourself than anything else. Maybe it's because I can't relate to the self-mutilation problem that the main character has, but that's how the book came across to me, and I felt no desire to read any further. When I was reading how she swiped one of her brother's blades, how she kept it clean so it would last longer, how she knew just how to cut, how she taped a blade into the Altoids tin at school so as not to be picked up by the metal detector, how she was careful not to cut too deep at school because she was unable to change bloody clothes there, it all just came across (to me) as a guide on what to do and what not to do and way too detailed. If this book helps young women (and men) (or even adult women & men) who cut, then that's fantastic, but I wonder how many will read these details and think “oh, why didn't I think of that before?” instead of getting any other message this book might be trying to convey. And this is just what I got from three chapters. There's no telling what was to come.