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elude's review
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Medical content, and Mental illness
elilhrairah's review
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical content, Alcohol, and Alcoholism
Moderate: Chronic illness, Eating disorder, and Mental illness
mediocrity_is_expected's review
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism
Moderate: Mental illness
mirireads's review
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, and Medical content
Moderate: Mental illness
catherben's review
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts
moonyreadsbystarlight's review
emotional
reflective
3.75
This was a really interesting addition to the memoir series. Just as My Solo Exchange Diary was different pacing than My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness, this volume is different still. It is more of an immediate reflection of a year, not as small as diary entries in My Solo Exchange Diary and not as large of a focus as My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness. This difference is part of what makes this series so unique. It's not just telling you about the author's experience, but you're seeing the change in approaches within the work itself.
In My Solo Exchange Diary Vol 2, one of the things she covered was the experience of writing memoir and even some of the fallout. In this volume, you see this more as her feelings around it shift. There's also a clear change in how she handles discussing interpersonal elements and discusses how it had caused issues after her other memoirs had been published. So this volume focuses much on her internal experience of hospitalization and recovery.
Over all, this whole series has been a really interesting look into her life, issues of mental health, and what it means to be vulnerable and seek intimacy. How do we seek comfort in a way that is healthy and productive? This series doesn't serve to answer this -- it is very honest in it's open endings.
In My Solo Exchange Diary Vol 2, one of the things she covered was the experience of writing memoir and even some of the fallout. In this volume, you see this more as her feelings around it shift. There's also a clear change in how she handles discussing interpersonal elements and discusses how it had caused issues after her other memoirs had been published. So this volume focuses much on her internal experience of hospitalization and recovery.
Over all, this whole series has been a really interesting look into her life, issues of mental health, and what it means to be vulnerable and seek intimacy. How do we seek comfort in a way that is healthy and productive? This series doesn't serve to answer this -- it is very honest in it's open endings.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts
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