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None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary by Travis Alabanza
4.0
I highlighted so much of this book. Cis people: please read this!!!!
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health by Micha Frazer-Carroll
5.0
READ THIS BOOK! Extremely readable and accessible, expanded on ideas I knew about but I think would work really well for those new to the concept of Madness through a political lens. Should be required reading for anyone with any experience of ‘mental illness’, and especially so for those looking to go into the field of ‘mental health care’.
Content Warning: Everything by Akwaeke Emezi
5.0
A little speechless. Emezi has all the words, I just absorb them. Hoping I can get back to writing one day, knowing it will never be as good as this.
Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page
3.5
3.5 stars
I got a lot out of this book, gender-wise, and I am grateful it exists. The prose wasn’t the best, and it was sometimes confusing trying to place when events were happening in Elliot’s life. Still, it got me out of a reading rut, and I’ve highlighted plenty of stuff (for my therapist lol)!
I got a lot out of this book, gender-wise, and I am grateful it exists. The prose wasn’t the best, and it was sometimes confusing trying to place when events were happening in Elliot’s life. Still, it got me out of a reading rut, and I’ve highlighted plenty of stuff (for my therapist lol)!
The Next Person You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
1.0
I don’t think me and ole’ Mitch would get along very well. We appear to have very different worldviews (something I perhaps wasn’t as aware of when I read ‘The Five People You Meet In Heaven’ as a young teen).
I found this book to be… nothing. Uninventive prose; boring. Truly asinine quotes about how to live, stuff that could’ve been written by a fairly non-creative high school student. There was no emotion, no feeling, and I couldn’t connect to the characters at all (despite some themes which should’ve sparked ~something~).
Just a lesson in “having a kind-of-good story doesn’t mean you can write it well”.
I found this book to be… nothing. Uninventive prose; boring. Truly asinine quotes about how to live, stuff that could’ve been written by a fairly non-creative high school student. There was no emotion, no feeling, and I couldn’t connect to the characters at all (despite some themes which should’ve sparked ~something~).
Just a lesson in “having a kind-of-good story doesn’t mean you can write it well”.