Tag: mental health
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WIPPet Wednesday: Cloudy Day
Hello everyone! How is your week going? Last Thursday evening, I fell on my back during a pole dance class. It’s kind of a funny story: Conversation with fiancé:* Me: Uh, I fell on my back during pole class. Fiancé: OMG go to Emergency right now you might have a lung perforation and drop dead…
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Review: History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera
While waiting for They Both Die at the End to come out (and it DID this week!! *squeal*) I decided to read one of Adam Silvera’s other books. I’ve heard SO many amazing things about History is All You Left Me and Adam Silvera. This book did not disappoint 🙂 “One night we argued for…
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Review: All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven (Audiobook)
Theodore Finch is a troublemaker. He is unpredictable and does things that no one understands, like hurl a chair against the chalkboard, then disappear for days on end. Violet Markey is the popular girl who everyone likes. She is a model student and is on track to apply for the top universities. Except, after Violet’s…
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Review: Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia
“There comes a point in every girl’s life where she reaches a crossroads: a night alone with her sweatpants and her favorite television show, or a party with real, live, breathing people.” By day, Eliza is an awkward and unpopular senior at high school. By night, Eliza is LadyConstellation, the artist of Monstrous Sea, a…
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Review: My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga
“Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.” Trigger warning: This book contains content that some people may be triggered by. Please be cautious if you are sensitive towards the topic of suicide. Sixteen-year-old physics nerd Aysel is obsessed with plotting her own…
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Review: It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
“I didn’t want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that’s really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you’re so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.” Craig is a an ambitious teen who strives for success. His dream comes…
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Book Quote #4: “The veil of happiness”
You don’t think in depression that you’ve put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you’re seeing truly. – The Noonday Demon, Andrew Solomon This quote came back to haunt…
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Books read in 2017 (Part II)
Hello everyone! Today I will be writing about the non-fiction books that I’ve read in 2017. (For those of you who want to read about the fiction books that I’ve read recently, please click here.) Generally, fiction is my poison of choice. I chose to read most of these non-fiction books with the intention of doing research for…
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