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As a very long time follower of Sarah Wilson, I so wanted to love this book. She is an inspirational person who has helped me greatly with my health (mental and physical).
I applaud her bravery and honesty as some aspects of the book are very hard to read. Evisceratingly honest, one might say. Some of her ideas, and approaches and themes about anxiety's manifestations and how to manage and even live with it are excellent and I think will be (largely) helpful to many readers.
But dear lord it is badly written. I understand that the meandering structure is probably intended to mirror her journey to some extent, but it is sometimes a real struggle to follow her threads, internally inconsistent, has a severe over use of !!!!! and Sentences like 'But still.' or 'Do you understand where I am coming from?'
If you told me it was in fact a compilation of a whole lot of her blog posts (which I know it is not) I would not be at all surprised.
It reads like a mishmash of teenage diary, pseudo pop science, random thoughts about stuff and life, snippets of quotes from key thinkers on the topic and modern day confessional. If this grabs you then go for it.
(And I know this is such a minor point but the references to 'my staff'? Argggh).
I wonder if the structure, writing and language was a deliberate decision by her editor, or rather the result of an editor who was not able to properly control her author.
I applaud her bravery and honesty as some aspects of the book are very hard to read. Evisceratingly honest, one might say. Some of her ideas, and approaches and themes about anxiety's manifestations and how to manage and even live with it are excellent and I think will be (largely) helpful to many readers.
But dear lord it is badly written. I understand that the meandering structure is probably intended to mirror her journey to some extent, but it is sometimes a real struggle to follow her threads, internally inconsistent, has a severe over use of !!!!! and Sentences like 'But still.' or 'Do you understand where I am coming from?'
If you told me it was in fact a compilation of a whole lot of her blog posts (which I know it is not) I would not be at all surprised.
It reads like a mishmash of teenage diary, pseudo pop science, random thoughts about stuff and life, snippets of quotes from key thinkers on the topic and modern day confessional. If this grabs you then go for it.
(And I know this is such a minor point but the references to 'my staff'? Argggh).
I wonder if the structure, writing and language was a deliberate decision by her editor, or rather the result of an editor who was not able to properly control her author.