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4.09 AVERAGE
4.09 AVERAGE
Really engaging, I read it in about 4 days.
Very much a detective story for the first 3/4, the part about recovery was hard to read about how different it felt to not have her brain as her own.
Very much a detective story for the first 3/4, the part about recovery was hard to read about how different it felt to not have her brain as her own.
inspiring
fast-paced
Absolutely loved this book much more than I expected to! I haven’t read a memoir since Educated and that fell very flat for me so to pick this up took the encouragement of “university requirement” for a book report in my STSE graduate class. I enjoy medical reads as well so that helped, given that I read The Brain That Changes Itself and some others, this focus on a rare autoimmune disease through the eyes of a survivor really made an impact on me as a reader.
Something I did not expect was that the author explicitly calls out her privileges and for that it earns 5 stars from me (yet another stark contrast to the privileges the author of Educated never admits) because she genuinely conveys concern for the people who don’t have access to the high quality care she did. It humbled her (plus she is an active advocate for the disease) and I will definitely be recommending this book to my friends or at the very least I feel that I have learned something that I can carry with me to educate others about.
Something I did not expect was that the author explicitly calls out her privileges and for that it earns 5 stars from me (yet another stark contrast to the privileges the author of Educated never admits) because she genuinely conveys concern for the people who don’t have access to the high quality care she did. It humbled her (plus she is an active advocate for the disease) and I will definitely be recommending this book to my friends or at the very least I feel that I have learned something that I can carry with me to educate others about.
The body and brain are so fragile and vulnerable. This book highlights that sick people need advocates and financial support. I am saddened to think of the patients who suffered from this kind of disorder before it was discovered.
dark
emotional
medium-paced
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
I personally LOVED this memoir! As a medical student, I feel like every medical student should read this after finishing M1! It was so cool to apply all I learned into this book, so I found this even more enjoyable than several years ago. She did a very good job simplifying complex medical and psychiatric information!
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
