pickAs if middle school isn‘t difficult enough, she gets to add in being the new kid, and a new sensation: a knife twisting in her gut that portends needing a bathroom like yesterday. Even if every preteen isn‘t experiencing Crohn‘s there are many other things that they likely don‘t see represented in media that make them feel “weird”. Books like this could give them hope enough to ask for help.
pickAs a woman diagnosed with hEDS in the last 1.5 years, this book is so validating. It also explains so much of my own experiences with medical professionals. The EDS explains so much of my life history. This book is such an important starting point, this should be required reading for any medical professional to be licensed in the 2020s.
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pickWhat an unusual, nuanced graphic novel. There‘s nothing juvenile or simple about this story. No easy morals or cliches. It‘s a story about a teenager named Harriet whose family has just moved, and how she spends the days while her parents are working multiple jobs. The circumstances are revealed slowly and even at the end there is a lot that isn‘t spelled out. I would recommend this for adults as well as teens. Very thought provoking.
I have been sick and not able to read for a few days (or was it weeks?). I hate it. I love reading, being in challenges, writing about books... But I never know when I'm going to get worse or have a flare. It's frustrating... 😔
Any other chronically disabled people in here who sometimes struggle to keep up with their reading and reading challenges?
#disability #chronicillness #chronicdisabililty
pickI adore this book! Sure I had to stop reading because I saw something moving in the hallway, and sure my fear of “someone in the mirror” was reawakened, and sure the description of “not quite a ghost” turned my stomach, but it‘s inspired by The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (love it!) and the doctors are enRAGing, and Violet learns to stand up for herself. 👻
pickI remember when the author was doing a ton of PR for this and now there's nothing. It totally needs to be yelled about some more bc it was really good!! A story of the musketeers after the OG Ms have "retired". Tania is the daughter of a musketeer and has longed to be the heroine of her father's stories. The problem? Her mother's worry and her poor health. A story with #disability rep, sisterhood, ⚔️ fights, challenging ourselves, and self-love
so-soThe whole book was unpleasant. Throughout, there is the middle-grade version of Mean Girls. Then, in the last roughly twenty percent, there is the ghost story/horror aspect. I didn't find any compelling redeeming features.
pickMy gosh, if you asked me to pick a favorite in this series I'd be stumped. They're literally all just THAT good. I love the thoughtful neurodivergent representation, and this one also included a rarely discussed (in romance books anyway) health condition. And the STEAM 🔥
All I want for Christmas is to marry into the Bergman family 😭😭😭
