Welcome to Litsy!

This is a wild memoir! A terrifying month started with nightmares of bedbugs, but quickly turned to tingling, numbness, paranoia, hallucinations, seizures, memory loss, and more! Thankfully, a doctor was finally able to diagnose her, and it started with asking her to draw a clock. If this hadn‘t happened, she might have been permanently disabled, gone into an institution, or dead! She recounts it all here. (There is also a screen adaptation⬇️

Even after he broke up with his boyfriend Theo, even when Theo started seeing Jackson, Griffin expected them to be endgame someday. But then Theo died at 18 and Griffin is left a wreck of grief, guilt, and compulsion. A very intense story with intriguing twists; it engrossed and affected me but was almost too depressing to enjoy.

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loved the narrator but the story was kinda meh for me…maybe i missed something… #unpopularopinion #audiophile #readinggoal

A bit late, but I did enjoy one book this last week. @Read4life

At 89% and I had to pause - again - or I might would've started to cry. I mean, I did read about about shutdowns and autistic burnouts, but hearing her talking about them that openly? That hits differentky, again. I'm the one who goes nonverbal and got in trouble for that not only as a child, but also as a grown-up. Finally I know, why this happens. I think I need to feed my ADHD side for a while before continuing this.

I loved this book! It took me a little while to finish it, because I've been so busy recently, but overall, this book was a real page turner. I recommend this book.

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This was a lovely introspective memoir about living with depression & using nature as a balm for the soul. He opens up about his struggle with depression & how he found solace in taking nature walks (along with therapy & medication) to get on a healing journey. Each chapter focuses on an aspect in nature & relates to a life experience, while also giving solid facts about each animal or organism. His writing is very lyrical & poetic in the best way

4✨We follow the relationships of friends all four years where Autumn our MC is dating Jaime. They are in love, or does she even know what love is?

Meanwhile, she is learning and growing, gaining new tiaras along the way. This book had me invested in these friend‘s lives. While I don‘t think life should only be about relationships with others it made for a really good story. By the end, I was happy for our MC however, the ending also gutted me.

I thought the character of Eleanor felt a bit uneven, but liked the book enough to want to know what happens next, with her, with Raymond. I‘d definitely read a sequel.