Tag: mental illness
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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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