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TheDefunctDiva (304 KP) created a post
Jun 7, 2019
A$ap Rocky recommended Late Registration by Kanye West in Music (curated)
Serena Marie (7 KP) rated Turtles All The Way Down in Books
Jan 23, 2018
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John Green Does It Again
I will start off by saying that I love John Green. His books have always been a favorite of mine. Looking For Alaska is a book I will gravitate towards over and over again. He has such a great writing style with the most beautiful quotes. I can't get over it if we're being honest.
Mental health is a big and important topic. With something so big comes a lot of responsibility when writing about it. John Green nails it. The way he talks about Aza's OCD and how he describes her thought processes is amazing. You really start to bond with the character and feel for her. BUT, not only do you feel for her, you get frustrated with her because you start to get invested. The way that she navigates her life, her thoughts, her relationships, her everything is so well thought out by John.
I think this book has started a lot of really important conversations. People are talking about OCD. How to cope with someone who has OCD. How to cope with having it yourself. How to seek help and know that there ARE great resources out there that people don't know about. Best of all, it's helping to take away the awful stigma that seems to be attached to mental illness and mental health.
Thank you, John Green. Your books bring me peace.
Mental health is a big and important topic. With something so big comes a lot of responsibility when writing about it. John Green nails it. The way he talks about Aza's OCD and how he describes her thought processes is amazing. You really start to bond with the character and feel for her. BUT, not only do you feel for her, you get frustrated with her because you start to get invested. The way that she navigates her life, her thoughts, her relationships, her everything is so well thought out by John.
I think this book has started a lot of really important conversations. People are talking about OCD. How to cope with someone who has OCD. How to cope with having it yourself. How to seek help and know that there ARE great resources out there that people don't know about. Best of all, it's helping to take away the awful stigma that seems to be attached to mental illness and mental health.
Thank you, John Green. Your books bring me peace.
Bubba Gee (147 KP) rated Because We are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought in Books
Jul 7, 2019
A true Journey of the mind
Wow, what a tale of loss, love, and everything in between leading to ultimate redemption and recovery.
This will make you laugh, make you cry, you will feel sadness, empathy, sympathy and laugther all at the same time.
I would say this is majorly helpful to anyone suffering with ocd as it made me feel glad, almost like huh it's not just me, it was so relatable and you can get a very real sense of the author's pain and turmoil dealing with the rigors of daily life with ocd on her back.
From her days at school to uni to working and all the times between this has indeed been a roller-coaster ride of emotion especially considering the author is still in her 20s.
Hopefully she opens up again in future and shares more of her journey.
I am personally thankful lily Bailey shared this with us.
This will make you laugh, make you cry, you will feel sadness, empathy, sympathy and laugther all at the same time.
I would say this is majorly helpful to anyone suffering with ocd as it made me feel glad, almost like huh it's not just me, it was so relatable and you can get a very real sense of the author's pain and turmoil dealing with the rigors of daily life with ocd on her back.
From her days at school to uni to working and all the times between this has indeed been a roller-coaster ride of emotion especially considering the author is still in her 20s.
Hopefully she opens up again in future and shares more of her journey.
I am personally thankful lily Bailey shared this with us.
...And a Happy New Year?
Book
Spinster Club girls Evie, Amber and Lottie are reunited for the mother of all New Year's Eve...
Mark Halpern (153 KP) rated Shutter Island (2010) in Movies
Jan 14, 2018
Is he there or isn't he
A great thriller about a man sent to investigate the death of woman. He head problems and is kind of OCD in the way he does things. This is a close look into the eye of a detective who is obsessed with solving a murder
It is hard to write a good review cause I would be afraid that anything would give it away. This is a movie you need to see all the way through and learn the ending just to go back and spot the reasons why.
It is hard to write a good review cause I would be afraid that anything would give it away. This is a movie you need to see all the way through and learn the ending just to go back and spot the reasons why.
The Man Who Couldn't Stop
David Adam and Daniel Philpott
Book
In this captivating fusion of science and personal memoir, writer David Adam explores the weird...
Celebrate Calm
Podcast
Have a strong-willed child who doesn't respond to consequences, argues like an attorney, and refuses...
Bysa (2 KP) rated Sometimes I Lie in Books
Sep 19, 2018
I think OCD characters are overdone these days. Whenever I encounter one, I literally cringe.
I was annoyed with the slow progression before I even made it half way through the book. It was rather confusing at times.
I expected a less than reliable narrator given the title, but the misdirection was not executed well and ultimately irritated me.
The plot twists used were not believable. I found myself thinking the storyline was convoluted. Fiction or not, the reader expects believability.
I give 3 stars because although I'm not a fan of the storyline or theme, the author still put out two hundred and forty some odd pages of error free type and tried. Kudos to them for that.
I was annoyed with the slow progression before I even made it half way through the book. It was rather confusing at times.
I expected a less than reliable narrator given the title, but the misdirection was not executed well and ultimately irritated me.
The plot twists used were not believable. I found myself thinking the storyline was convoluted. Fiction or not, the reader expects believability.
I give 3 stars because although I'm not a fan of the storyline or theme, the author still put out two hundred and forty some odd pages of error free type and tried. Kudos to them for that.
Alice (117 KP) rated History Is All You Left Me in Books
Mar 3, 2021
I love everything Adam Silvera comes up with and every time it's soul destroying, He so carefully creates his characters and you feel their emotions and heartache and damn does he know how to make you feel. As soon as I read the summary I knew that this was the book for me, it had everything I love in fiction and it didn't disappoint. It's raw and honest from the first age to the last page and even though you find out about the history and present simultaneously you're still constantly uncovering things you didn't expect. He also handles the topic of OCD very well, it's not romanticized and it's portrayed as very very real.