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#BookBinge #AboutMentalHealth

It was so so so good! I never heard of this until I found it in the bookstore. It was advertised for those who love The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. Yes, it is quite similar but from a different perspective.

#7days7books Day 2

Has anyone else read it?

Thanks @erzascarletbookgasm for the tag!

I read this story of a young girl with schizophrenia losing touch with reality in my teens and I recall it sticking with me for a long time.
#LiteraryLove #Roses

I can‘t swear to it, but I‘m pretty damn sure I liked this book🤔

#GetMovin Day29 #Roses

I read this so many times when I was a kid. Once I was at a friend's house and brought it along, and her super religious dad picked it up and read the back and pronounced it "not good reading." Really pissed me off because I knew it was a great book. But I was 12 and powerless so didn't argue. Looking back, sheesh...what a know-nothing bully. #promises #heartsandhardcovers

#tuneintonovember #mrasylum

Reading all your posts about asylum books reminded me of a book I loved as a teen. It‘s a semi autobiographical novel about a 16 year old schizophrenic girl who gets some help to find her way out of an imagined world that has become her reality. I thought it might be outdated but it‘s still getting some good reviews on GR, so hopefully still one to recommend!

Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.

#bookmail! This is what I do with my Bing reward points; I get used books.

Another fave place to relax is a rose garden that my grandma always used to take me to when I was little. These pictures don't do it justice. There's BEDS of practically every variety of rose. ?

These are my two favorite places to read—this granite bench tucked away from everyone under a tree (Introvert Rating 10/10 ?s), & also the benches with trellises. Bitches LOVE trellises. (7/10 ?s).

I come here when it's not a heat index of 109°. ??

"I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself . . . he said, 'Why, [I do them] before the world does them. . . . Don't you see? It always comes at last, but this way at least I am master of my own destruction.'"