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Too Close to Home

Too Bright To Hear Too Loud To See by Juliann Garey

January 19, 2022 by Claudia 2 Comments

I always struggle with even rating books that are made more for being sad and discussing something difficult. Since I view reading as a form of entertainment its hard to rate pain as a kind of enjoyment. Juliann Garey takes us into the life and mind of Greyson Todd, a Hollywood studio exec with a wife and daughter whose life seems perfect except for the fact that Greyson has Bipolar 1 disorder. I went into this book completely blind, not knowing what it was about […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Health Tagged With: Juliann Garey

Claudia's CBR14 Review No:12 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Health · Tags: Juliann Garey ·
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Fiction Reviews Dump

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chain

Another Place You've Never Been by Rebecca Kauffman

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See by Juliann Garey

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Dietland by Sarai Walker

A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler

December 30, 2021 by Nannerbears 1 Comment

Apologies in advance, and I hope I can be forgiven for the end-of-the-year review dump. I’ve had bits and pieces to say about the books I read but it never felt well-formed enough to tell others about them. So, here we go, a review dump of some of the fiction I read this year.  A Good Neighborhood |  Therese Anne Fowler We’ve all been reading long enough to know that a book titled A Good Neighborhood is not actually about a good neighborhood. It’s about […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction Tagged With: Detransition Baby, dietland, elif batuman, Good Neighborhood, Juliann Garey, multiple reviews, ocean vuong, Olga Tokarczuk, Rebecca Kauffman, sarai walker, She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chain, the idiot, Therese Anne Fowler, Torrey Peters

Nannerbears's CBR13 Review No:17 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: Detransition Baby, dietland, elif batuman, Good Neighborhood, Juliann Garey, multiple reviews, ocean vuong, Olga Tokarczuk, Rebecca Kauffman, sarai walker, She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chain, the idiot, Therese Anne Fowler, Torrey Peters ·
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Undiagnosed Mental Illness Will Wreck Your Life

Too Bright to Hear, Too Loud to See by Juliann Garey

February 25, 2019 by allisonata Leave a Comment

“…You are very lucky. Not everyone can feel things as deeply as you. Most people, their feelings are…bland, tasteless. They’ll never understand what it’s like to read a poem and feel almost like they’re flying, or to see a bleeding fish and feel grief that shatters their heart. It’s not a weakness, Grey. It’s what I love about you most.” Our man Greyson, a successful Hollywood executive with a wife and an eight-year-old daughter, has an undiagnosed mental illness. It’s an unescapable, nameless issue that […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: bipolar, cbr11, Juliann Garey, mental illness

allisonata's CBR11 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: bipolar, cbr11, Juliann Garey, mental illness ·
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