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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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“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t”

September 13, 2018 by Malin Leave a Comment

Aza Holmes doesn’t have a lot of friends, and her best friend Daisy, a gregarious and outgoing fan fiction writer, sometimes finds her a bit exhausting. This is not surprising, as Aza struggles with anxiety and OCD. When local billionaire Russell Davis Picket goes missing and there is a reward offered for news of his whereabouts, Daisy remembers that Aza knows his son. Daisy orchestrates a scenario so that Aza can reconnect with Davis, who she hasn’t seen for a few years. Aza and Davis […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult Tagged With: #CBR10, Anxiety, contemporary fiction, friendship, john green, Malin, mental illness, mystery, Turtles All The Way Down, Young Adult

Malin's CBR10 Review No:79 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult · Tags: #CBR10, Anxiety, contemporary fiction, friendship, john green, Malin, mental illness, mystery, Turtles All The Way Down, Young Adult ·
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Aggressively whimsical

August 2, 2018 by Dusty Highway 1 Comment

CBR10BINGO: Cover Art I read through Jenny Lawson’s Furiously Happy in a few days, and honestly, not much of it stuck with me. Most of it was just too stream-of-consciousness and aggressively whimsical for my taste, and I found myself tuning out whole chapters, skimming over the parts that felt empty of meaning other than how self-consciously “crazy” someone can act. These parts rang false, much like those reality show contestants who do nothing but mug for the camera and show off for each other, […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor Tagged With: #CBR10, #memoir, cbr10bingo, Furiously Happy, humor, Jenny Lawson, mental illness

Dusty Highway's CBR10 Review No:40 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor · Tags: #CBR10, #memoir, cbr10bingo, Furiously Happy, humor, Jenny Lawson, mental illness ·
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The Stars Never Disappear

July 30, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

In Sight of Stars by Gae Polisner took a bit for me to get through. Mostly because it deals with some very tough subjects: depression, suicide, family and love. Filled with many great observations there are some clichés as well. These can be overlooked due to the nature of the story. These also help break up the tension of a typically over dramatic teenager mentality. (Spoiler) The clues are there as to why the father commits suicide, why the mother is the way she is, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Death & Dying, Gae Polisner, Loners & Outcasts, mental illness, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:287 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Death & Dying, Gae Polisner, Loners & Outcasts, mental illness, Social Themes ·
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Maybe Your Lovely Wife Should Have Written This Book Instead?

March 9, 2018 by Bernard Black 15 Comments

First review ever. Please be kind. Mark Lukach and his wife Giulia meet at college and immediately fall deeply in love. Giulia is an ambitious woman whose life goals are to have a great career and three kids by the time she’s 35. Mark wants to be a teacher. After college, Giulia works in New York, while Mark takes frequent trips to visit her. After they move to San Francisco and Giulia starts a new job, she begins experiencing intense anxiety about her job performance. […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Health, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, Bipolar Disorder, health, mental illness

Bernard Black's CBR10 Review No:1 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, Bipolar Disorder, health, mental illness ·
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“Your now is not your forever.”

December 30, 2017 by narfna Leave a Comment

First, this review is sort of temporary so I can get my thoughts out before they fade away. I’ll probably be re-reading soon. I want to have a better chance to digest it, since the first time I read it over Thanksgiving weekend, I had my mom and sister and their HGTV/Hallmark Christmas movie obsession as a constant in the background and it was very distracting. I always have these grand plans of reading and writing over Thanksgiving weekend, and it NEVER happens because my […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Anxiety, Fiction, john green, mental illness, mysteries, narfna, OCD, Turtles All The Way Down, YA, Young Adult

narfna's CBR9 Review No:120 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Anxiety, Fiction, john green, mental illness, mysteries, narfna, OCD, Turtles All The Way Down, YA, Young Adult ·
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