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I have to admit, this is one of those books I judged by its cover. It kept catching my eye and I really loved the title, so I ended up getting it.
I started the book on a flight to a job interview in Montana (in which I ended up accepting). I felt like reading about dealing with anxiety before an anxiety-inducing event was a good idea. Then sometime in September I stopped reading - I’d made it about halfway. I liked that the pages weren’t laid out like typical books and she has commentary on the side margins. However, she numbers every section, and silly me was stressed out by them. I felt like she was going to play a trick where she skipped a number and I would fail to notice, so I would go in and out of checking number order. That aside, I think I would’ve given the book a 4 at this time in my reading.
Then I picked this book back up after reading Tara Westover’s “Educated” and the writing just couldn’t compare. It was choppy, repetitive and all over the place in relation to Tara’s poetic fluidity. I will say, it seems like Sarah Wilson’s brain is almost always highly active, so it did feel I was getting a peek inside her head.
I think Sarah has a lot of good tips, tricks and advice for people. I also think that it was great that she opened up about all her eccentricities, to make talking about mental health more acceptable. So it ended up being a memoir/self help book.
I would have appreciated more scientific references and organization of topics. She kind of rubbed me the wrong way a little when she would talk about hiking for days alone and flitting from city to city. It seemed incredibly reckless but it’s her story to tell.
I’m waffling between giving it 3 and 4 stars now, and she talks about how anxious people tend to have trouble making decisions. Great. I’ll keep it at three for now and see how I feel about it.
I started the book on a flight to a job interview in Montana (in which I ended up accepting). I felt like reading about dealing with anxiety before an anxiety-inducing event was a good idea. Then sometime in September I stopped reading - I’d made it about halfway. I liked that the pages weren’t laid out like typical books and she has commentary on the side margins. However, she numbers every section, and silly me was stressed out by them. I felt like she was going to play a trick where she skipped a number and I would fail to notice, so I would go in and out of checking number order. That aside, I think I would’ve given the book a 4 at this time in my reading.
Then I picked this book back up after reading Tara Westover’s “Educated” and the writing just couldn’t compare. It was choppy, repetitive and all over the place in relation to Tara’s poetic fluidity. I will say, it seems like Sarah Wilson’s brain is almost always highly active, so it did feel I was getting a peek inside her head.
I think Sarah has a lot of good tips, tricks and advice for people. I also think that it was great that she opened up about all her eccentricities, to make talking about mental health more acceptable. So it ended up being a memoir/self help book.
I would have appreciated more scientific references and organization of topics. She kind of rubbed me the wrong way a little when she would talk about hiking for days alone and flitting from city to city. It seemed incredibly reckless but it’s her story to tell.
I’m waffling between giving it 3 and 4 stars now, and she talks about how anxious people tend to have trouble making decisions. Great. I’ll keep it at three for now and see how I feel about it.